Research Director
Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland
and
Senior Research Scholar, School of Public Policy

301-405-7610
ngallag@umd.edu

Expertise
arms control and cooperative security, space policy, nuclear weapons and nuclear testing, verification, treaty ratification, and international relations theory

Nancy Gallagher is the Associate Director for Research at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). She co-directs the Advanced Methods of Cooperative Security Program, which seeks to address the security implications of globalization by developing more refined rules of behavior and more comprehensive transparency arrangements. Before coming to the University of Maryland, Dr. Gallagher was the Executive Director of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Task Force and worked with the Special Advisor to the President and the Secretary of State on recommendations to build bipartisan support for U.S. ratification. She has been an arms control specialist in the State Department, a Foster Fellow in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and a faculty member at Wesleyan University. Dr. Gallagher is the author of The Politics of Verification (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999) and the editor of Arms Control: New Approaches to Theory and Policy (Frank Cass, 1998). She received her undergraduate degree in history from Carleton College and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.