Fellows

Sowon Park is a Ph.D. candidate in the Politics Department at the University of Virginia, where she is also a graduate fellow at the National Security Policy Center for the 2022-23 academic year. Before joining the NSPC, she was a graduate fellow at the Democracy Initiative’s Statecraft Lab from 2020 to 2022. Her research interests include international security, foreign policy, and public opinion. Her dissertation project focuses on the intersection of domestic politics and interstate signaling. In her work, she explores the impacts of contentious domestic debate in the US legislature on the dynamics of interstate bargaining.

Justin Winokur is a third year PhD student in History at the University of Virginia, where he researches America’s Cold War warfare state under Professor William Hitchcock. Justin is a 2022-23 Fellow at UVA’s National Security Policy Center, the 2022-23 Fellow for UVA’s Governing America in a Global Era, and an Associate of the Applied History Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 2018-2020, Justin was a Research Assistant to Professor Graham Allison at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, where he was also the Center’s Applied History Project Coordinator. He holds an MA in History from the University of Virginia and a BA in International Relations (summa cum laude) from Connecticut College.