Professor Keren Yarhi-Milo '03GS, Director of Columbia's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and Jason Dempsey '03GSAS, '06GSAS, '08GSAS, Executive Director of the Columbia University Center for Veteran Transition and Integration (CVTI) discuss the role of military veterans in academia and society. This event was hosted by the School of General Studies, CVTI, and the Saltzman Institute.
About Jason Dempsey '03GSAS, '06GSAS, '08GSAS
One of the nation's leading experts on military demographics and civilian-military relations, Dempsey has served as the Senior Advisor to CVTI since 2017, and as its Interim Executive Director since 2020. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University. During his military service, he deployed twice to Afghanistan and once to Iraq.
Between his tours to Afghanistan in 2009 and 2012, Dempsey spent two years in the White House, where he initially served as the First Lady’s White House Fellow and helped take the broad concept of military family support and turn it into Joining Forces, the First Lady and Dr. Biden’s comprehensive national initiative to mobilize all sectors of society to support our service members and their families. Among other initiatives, he also created and led an interagency data group to increase information sharing and analysis among government agencies seeking to improve transition services and to increase post-service employment opportunities for America’s veterans.
These experiences bringing together diverse individuals and organizations in support of veterans and service members—particularly in their transition to civilian society—positioned Dempsey to provide expert guidance to CVTI as it worked to aggressively establish and expand programming after its initial launch. Today, the Center hosts three free online MOOCs available to veterans nationwide, designed to facilitate the successful transition of active duty service members and veterans to postsecondary education, to provide guidance to help veterans succeed in the civilian workforce, and to teach strategies for academic success in navigating the transition from military service to the college classroom.
About Keren Yarhi-Milo '03GS
Keren Yarhi-Milo is the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies in the Political Science Department and the School of International and Public Affairs. She is also the Director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. Her research and teaching focus on international relations and foreign policy, with a particular specialization in international security, including foreign policy decision-making, interstate communication and crisis bargaining, psychology, intelligence, and US foreign policy in the Middle East.
Professor Yarhi-Milo’s first book, Knowing The Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence Organizations, and Assessments of Intentions in International Relations, received the 2016 Furnnis Award for best book in the field of international security and is co-winner of the 2016 DPLST Book Prize, Diplomatic Studies Section of the International Studies Association. Her second book, Who Fights for Reputation? The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict, also received two awards: the 2019 Best Book Award on Foreign Policy from the American Political Science Association and the 2020 Biennial Best Book on Foreign Policy from the International Studies Association.
Before joining the faculty at Columbia University, she was an associate professor (with tenure) of politics and international affairs at Princeton University’s Politics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs. She was previously a post-doc fellow at the Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a pre-doc fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. Yarhi-Milo has worked at the Mission of Israel to the United Nations, as well as served in the Israeli Defense Forces, Intelligence Branch. Her dissertation received the Kenneth Waltz Award for the best dissertation in the field of International Security and Arms Control in 2010. She also has received awards for the study of political science from the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Arthur Ross Foundation, and the Abram Morris Foundation. Yarhi-Milo holds a PhD and a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated summa cum laude from Columbia's School of General Studies with a BA in political science.
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