Assistant Professor of International Affairs
Faculty Fellow, Center for International Trade and Security
Naomi Egel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the Benson-Bertsch Center for International Trade and Security, where she directs the Weapons Governance Lab. Her research examines the politics of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements, including why and how such agreements vary in their design and development, the role of small states in weapons governance, and public opinion regarding nuclear weapons and multilateral treaties. Her research has been published in the Journal of Politics, the European Journal of International Relations, the Review of International Organizations, the Journal of Strategic Studies, and Research & Politics. Her commentaries have been published in The Washington Quarterly, War on the Rocks, Just Security, the Washington Post, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and Foreign Affairs. Previously, she was a Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. She holds a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.
