Dr. McBride is a Research Associate in the Health Policy and Management Department. She is also a Research Analyst with a DC-area non-profit research and analysis organization. Prior to this work she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, and a Middle East intelligence analyst with the National Security Agency. She holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Brown University, an M.A. in Government from Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in Liberal Arts from the Great Books program at St. John’s College, and a B.A. in Psychology from Drew University. Her areas of expertise include terrorism, radicalization, religious and ideological violence, and theory of religion.
