Nina Srinivasan

Nina Srinivasan Rathbun is a Professor, Teaching Stream at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at The University of Toronto.  Professor Srinivasan Rathbun comes from Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003. Her articles have appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, and the Non-proliferation Review among others. She has taught courses on U.S. foreign policy, the European Union, communism and post-communism in Eastern Europe, research design and methods, global governance, globalization and global finance, receiving several USC Excellence in Teaching grants for innovative teaching methods. She also served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies and faculty research and fellowships advisor for IR undergraduates, mentoring hundreds of students on academic and career choices in international relations and political science, over sixty of whom have been awarded Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright and Boren National Security scholarships. Her field of research is in international security with a focus on multilateral nuclear non-proliferation and counterproliferation policies, as well as in European integration, political economy and democratization in post-Communist Europe, and NATO.  Professor Srinivasan Rathbun served in the U.S. State Department in the Non-proliferation Bureau and in the U.S. Mission to International Organizations at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.