Postdoctoral Fellow Sarah Maxey

Sarah Maxey holds a PhD in international relations from Cornell University and a BA in government and sociology from Georgetown University. Her research explores the intersection of security studies, foreign policy, and public opinion to examine the role of morality in military interventions and better understand how leaders mobilize the domestic audience for military action. During her year at Perry World House, Maxey focused on completing a book manuscript that explains the pattern and importance of humanitarian justifications in contemporary security interventions. She also worked on articles that examine partisanship, foreign policy orientations, morality, and presidential power to evaluate when and how the public holds presidents accountable for their foreign policy decisions. In the fall of 2018, Maxey joined the Political Science Department at Loyola University Chicago as an assistant professor.