Michelle Grisé

Michelle Grisé
Policy Researcher
Washington Office

Education

Ph.D. in history, Yale University; J.D. in law, University of Michigan; B.A. in history, University of Chicago

Overview

Michelle Grisé is a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Her research focuses on Iran, South Asia, Russian military strategy, strategic competition, and international law. Prior to joining RAND, Grisé was a law clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the Society for the History of Technology's NASA Fellow in the History of Space Technology, a visiting researcher at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, a policy fellow at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and a Fulbright fellow in Israel. She received a Ph.D. in history from Yale University, a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, and a B.A. in history from the University of Chicago. In addition to her work at RAND, Grisé teaches at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for Politics and Strategy.  

Honors & Awards

  • Fulbright Fellowship
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
  • Critical Language Scholarship

Languages

Russian; French; Hebrew

Commentary

  • Iraq

    Twenty Years After the Iraq War, a Q&A with RAND Experts

    On the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq, RAND experts discussed what the war means for the people of Iraq and the veterans who fought there, what lessons the U.S. military learned (or did not learn), and what effect it has had on the balance of power in the Middle East and the global reputation of the United States.

    Mar 21, 2023

    The RAND Blog

  • Decisionmaking

    Women and Statecraft History

    RAND associate policy researcher and historian Michelle Grisé discusses her training as a historian and how she uses it to inform current policy debates and decisionmaking.

    Dec 16, 2020

    Center for Strategic and International Studies

Publications