Sabreena is a fourth-year doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago studying International Relations. Her dissertation, titled “Controlling the Open Door: Security, Economy, and the Development of Great Power Navies,” uses a political economy of security approach to examine the variance and development of naval power and intends to draw policy-relevant implications for the US grand strategy, the pivot to Asia, and competition with China as a rising economic power. She is also a graduate associate and deputy research director at the Chicago Project On Security and Threats, where she manages a team of undergraduate research assistants. Outside of research, she has taught both substantive IR courses and approaches to social science methodology.
