Berkley Center

Mary Habeck is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Previously, she was an associate professor in strategic studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where she taught courses on military history and strategic thought. From 2008 to 2009 she was the special advisor for strategic planning on the National Security Council staff. Before joining SAIS, Habeck taught American and European military history in Yale University’s history department. Habeck was appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory council of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and served from 2006 to 2013. She received her B.A. in international studies, Russian, and Spanish from Ohio State University, as well as an M.A. in international relations and Ph.D. in history from Yale University.