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Assistant Professor
Center for Peace and Security Studies
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
Dr. Fair is an assistant professor in the Center for Peace and Security Studies (CPASS), within Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Previously, she has served as a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation, a political officer to the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul, and as a senior research associate in USIP's Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. She is also a senior fellow with the Counter Terrorism Center at West Point.
Her research focuses upon political and military affairs in South Asia. She has authored, co-authored and co-edited several books including Treading Softly on Sacred Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations on Sacred Space (OUP, 2008); The Madrassah Challenge: Militancy and Religious Education in Pakistan (USIP, 2008), Fortifying Pakistan: The Role of U.S. Internal Security Assistance (USIP, 2006); among others and has written numerous peer-reviewed articles covering a range of security issues in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. She is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the editorial board of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.
She is a many-time survivor of the University of Chicago. She earned her B.S. in Biological Chemistry in 1991. She also completed an M.A. from the Harris School of Public Policy as well as an M.A in South Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1997. In 2004, she received her Ph.D. in South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
She can cause trouble in multiple languages.
Media Engagement
She is a frequent commentator on television and radio including the CBS, BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, Voice of America, Fox, Reuters, NPR among others. She has given extensive interviews to journalists with the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Businessweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and other print media outlets.
On the Hill
- Feb 8, 2012: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Oversight and Investigations Sub-Committee on "Balochistan." PDF
- Nov 3, 2011: House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia on "2014 and Beyond: U.S. Policy Towards Afghanistan and Pakistan, Part I." PDF
- May 24, 2011: Senate Foreign Relations Committee on "Lashkar-e-Taiba beyond Bin Laden: Enduring Challenges for the Region and the International Community." PDF
- Dec 9, 2009: House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs on "U.S. Aid to Pakistan: Planning and Accountability." PDF
- Nov 5, 2009: House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on "The U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan: Impacts upon U.S. Interests in Pakistan." PDF
- Oct 1, 2009: House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia on "The Afghan Elections: Who Lost What?" PDF
- May 5, 2009: House Foreign Affairs Committee on "From Strategy to Implementation: The Future of the U.S.-Pakistan Relationship." PDF
- Mar 11, 2009: House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection on "Antecedents and Implications of the November 2008 Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Attack Upon Several Targets in the Indian Mega-City of Mumbai." PDF
- Jan 16, 2008: House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia on "U.S.-Pakistan Relations: Assassination, Instability, and the Future of U.S. Policy." PDF
- Jun 30, 2005: U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on "The United States and Pakistan: Navigating a Complex Relationship." LINK
- May 24, 2005: Congressional Human Rights Caucus on "Recent Developments in Bangladesh." LINK