Madison Schramm is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center. Previously, Schramm was an Assistant Professor in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the US Army War College (2021-2022), a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University (2020-2021), the Postdoctoral Fellow in Innovative Approaches to Grand Strategy at the International Security Center at the University of Notre Dame (2019-2020) and the Hillary Rodham Clinton Research Fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security (2018-2019). She received her PhD from Georgetown University in Government (2019) and her dissertation, entitled “Making Meaning and Making Monsters: Democracies, Personalist Regimes, and International Conflict,” was the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth N. Waltz Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association’s International  Security Section.

Schramm’s research focuses on international security, the domestic politics of foreign policy, political psychology, and gender and foreign policy. Her current book project explores the dynamics that intensify conflict between democracies and personalist regimes. She has published peer-reviewed research exploring gender and conflict initiation (Security Studies), democratic constitutional systems and conflict (Political Science Quarterlyand forthcoming at Journal of Global Security Studies), and diversity and inclusion in post-conflict states (Book chapter, Oxford University Press 2022).  Schramm has research in progress exploring the relationship between gender and corruption; variations in democratic threat perception; instability and the election of women heads of government; and the temporal variation in US covert action.

Her commentary and reviews have been published in Foreign Affairs, the Texas National Security Review, the Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, the Duck of Minerva, and CFR.org. Schramm has previously worked with the Council on Foreign Relations; the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; Yale University’s Political Violence FieldLab; and the RAND Corporation.