Chief Analyst, Strategic Studies Institute. Born in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in 1970. BA/MA History and Political Science, Northwestern, 1993. PhD Political Science, Georgetown, 1997. Assistant to Professor Kissinger at Georgetown. Thesis on "Rogue States and Madmen: Defining Power in the Wake of the Cold War" made mass media headlines and won her admission to the more straitlaced SSI in 1998. Married to avant-garde artist Adam Holt since 1995; no children.