Life and career Monica Toft




1 life , career

1.1 education
1.2 career
1.3 personal





life , career
education

toft graduated u.s. army s defense language institute in 1984 highest honours. completed associate of arts general curriculum of university of maryland s european division in 1987. in 1990 toft graduated summa cum laude b.a. in political science , slavic languages , literature university of california santa barbara. went on chicago university completed both m.a. (1992) , ph.d. (1998) in political science. title of doctoral dissertation geography of ethnic conflict.


career

toft s professional career began in u.s. army worked russian linguist 1983 1987. after completing education, toft joined faculty @ harvard university professor of international politics @ kennedy school of government , assistant director of john m. olin institute strategic studies. when olin institute closed in 2007, toft established , directed initiative on religion in international affairs @ kennedy school. in september 2012, toft joined faculty of blavatnik school of government @ university of oxford professor of government , public policy. during period, spent 4 months professor of strategy @ naval war college in newport, rhode island. left oxford in 2017 join tufts university.


toft member of council on foreign relations, minorities @ risk advisory board, , political instability task force. principal investigator of commonwealth initiative on religious freedom or belief , senior research scholar modeling religion project, institute biocultural study of religion, boston university.


her work has been recognised through numerous awards, grants , fellowships, including being named carnegie scholar carnegie foundation of new york research on religion , violence in 2008, awarded fulbright scholarship norway in 2012, , granted princeton s world politics fellowship in 2015 .


personal

toft married ivan arreguín-toft, scholar of international security , strategic studies , assistant professor of international relations @ boston university.








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