Michelle Grisé is an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Prior to joining RAND, she 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, and a policy fellow at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies. 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. She also teaches at the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University.