International Studies Professor Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba is joining the Atlantic Council, based in Washington, D.C., as a nonresident senior fellow. Sciubba brings her expertise in demographic shifts and national security, particularly the political, economic, and social effects of population aging. As a fellow, she will work with the Strategic Foresight Center within the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security to inform policy makers and business leaders around the globe about global demographic trends and their implications for policy and strategy.
Prior to joining the Department of International Studies at Rhodes, Sciubba worked as a demographics consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy). She studied at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008. She is the author of The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security (Praeger Security International/ABC-CLIO, 2011) and her research has appeared in International Interactions, International Area Studies Review, the Journal of Human Rights, and Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs,among others.