Stephen Dalzell

Steve Dalzell is a senior defense policy researcher at RAND and an affiliate faculty member at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His current research focuses on U.S. security assistance in Africa and U.S. Army personnel management and readiness, particularly as they relate to the Reserve Components.  Dalzell's other interests include urban security and civil-military operations, and he is part of ongoing RAND support to Defense Institution Building efforts in other countries. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2006, where his dissertation applied the Advocacy Coalition Framework for public policy analysis to the development of housing policy in Mubarak's Egypt.

A retired colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, Dalzell served two tours with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two years as the Army Reserve's Director of Strategy and Integration, and overseas assignments in Italy, Djibouti, Germany, Honduras, and Korea. He was an Army Fellow at RAND in 2002, and a Senior Service College Fellow at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, in 2005-06. He was a 2006 graduate of the U.S. Army War College.  Prior to joining RAND, he was a professorial lecturer at American University's School of International Service, where he taught courses on U.S. foreign policy, peace and conflict resolution, African security, and veterans issues.