Michelle Grisé is a senior policy researcher at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on defense and national security policy, including work on Iran, Russia, and homeland defense. Grisé was a 2023 Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Prior to joining RAND, she was a law clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the Society for the History of Technology’s NASA Fellow in the History of Space Technology, a visiting researcher at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, a policy fellow at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and a Fulbright fellow in Israel. Grisé received a Ph.D. in history from Yale University, a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, and a B.A. in history from the University of Chicago.
Michelle Grisé
