About
Meg K. Guliford is an Assistant Professor in Drexel University's Department of Politics. Prior to coming to Drexel, she served as a Vice-Provost for Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania where she was in residence at Perry World House.
Guliford’s broad research agenda reflects her interests in political violence, conflict processes, contemporary U.S. foreign policy, and the international politics of athletics. Her current research, including her first book manuscript, seeks to identify the effects of external intervention into civil wars on the civilian victimization by states and rebels.
Guliford’s research has been funded by the United States Institute of Peace, the Eisenhower Institute, and the John Anson Kittredge Fund.During her doctoral studies, she was named a Minerva Peace and Security Scholar and an Eisenhower-Roberts Fellow. More recently, she was the recipient of the 2021 Sidney D. Drell Academic Award from the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. Guliford, along with three co-Principal Investigators, leads the APSA-funded Descriptive Research Workshop, which highlights this research as a method and a tool of social scientific inquiry.
Prior to beginning my doctoral studies, she worked as a Research Staff Member in the Institute for Defense Analyses’ Intelligence Analyses Division and for the Office of the Secretary of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. In 2009-2010, Guliford completed a deployment to Iraq to work issues related to improvised explosive devices. Her career in the federal government began as a Presidential Management Fellow for Headquarters, United States Marine Corps.
Guliford is a VERY PROUD KANSAN and is in the fourth generation of her family to be born and raised in Central Kansas. She holds B.A.s in Political Science and Communications from the University of Pennsylvania and an MPP from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Aside from her academic pursuits, she enjoys powerlifting and live music while struggling to decipher the basics of men’s and women’s lacrosse.