Montgomery McFate
Montgomery McFate is a cultural anthropologist who works on defense and national security issues. Dr. McFate is currently the Senior Social Scientist for the US Army’s Human Terrain System. [1]
Education and Career
McFate received a B.A. from University of California at Berkeley, a Ph.D in Anthropology from Yale University, and a J.D. (professional legal qualification) from Harvard Law School. Her Ph.D dissertation concerned British counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland. [2] According to The New Yorker 'she spent living among supporters of the Irish Republican Army and then among British counterinsurgents,' where she discovered that 'insurgency runs in families and social networks, held together by persistent cultural narratives'. [3]
Before being awarded a fellowship at the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research McFate worked as a social scientist in [[RAND Corporation|RAND’s] Intelligence Policy Center. She also took a clinical internship on the United States Attorney's Office Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Squad, a fellowship at Human Rights Watch, and experience as a litigation associate at the law firm of Baker & McKenzie in San Francisco. [4]
Notes
- ↑ montgomerymcfate.com, Homepage, accessed 29 May 2009
- ↑ montgomerymcfate.com, Homepage, accessed 29 May 2009
- ↑ George Packer, '[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/12/18/061218fa_fact2 Knowing the Enemy', The New Yorker, 18 December 2006
- ↑ montgomerymcfate.com, Homepage, accessed 29 May 2009
- ↑ George Packer, '[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/12/18/061218fa_fact2 Knowing the Enemy', The New Yorker, 18 December 2006
- ↑ Matthew B. Stannard, 'Montgomery McFate's Mission. Can one anthropologist possibly steer the course in Iraq?', San Francisco Chronicle, 29 April 2007
