Dr. Rebecca Davis Gibbons is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Andrew Carnegie AI-Nuclear Policy Accelerator. 

Dr. Rebecca Davis Gibbons is an associate professor of political science at the University of Southern Maine and a non-resident Senior Associate at the Project on Nuclear Issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. She served as a fellow and associate of the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs after receiving her Ph.D. from Georgetown University in 2016. Her research focuses on nuclear weapons, arms control, disarmament, public opinion, and global order. Her academic writing has been published in journals including the Journal of Politics, Contemporary Security Policy, Journal of Global Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Washington Quarterly, and Nonproliferation Review. Her public affairs commentary has been featured in Arms Control Today, The Hill, U.S. News & World Report, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, War on the Rocks, and the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage.

Before becoming an academic, Dr. Gibbons taught elementary school among the Bikini community in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and served as a national security policy analyst at SAIC, providing research and analytic support on arms control and nonproliferation issues to Headquarters Air Force Strategic Stability and Countering WMD Division (AF/A10-S). Her book, The Hegemon’s Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, was published by Cornell University Press in 2022.