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Professor

Security Studies Program
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.

With her canine associate, Ms. Oppenheimer
With her canine associate, Ms. Oppenheimer
(PBUH, Oct. 7. 1999-Aug. 11, 2014)
in Santa Monica, CA

Dr. Fair is a Professor in the Peace and Security Studies Program within Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

She previously served as a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation, a political officer with the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul, and a senior research associate at USIP's Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. She has served as a Senior Fellow at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center, a Senior Resident Fellow at the Institute of Defense Studies and Analysis (New Delhi), and as a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow.

Her research focuses on political and military affairs in South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka). Her most recent book is In Their Own Words: Understanding the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (Oxford University Press). Additionally, she has as authored, co-authored and co-edited several books, including: Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War (Oxford University Press), Pakistan's Enduring Challenges (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), Policing Insurgencies: Cops as Counterinsurgents (Oxford University Press, 2014);Political Islam and Governance in Bangladesh (Routledge, 2010); Treading on Hallowed Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations in Sacred Spaces (Oxford University Press, 2008); The Madrassah Challenge: Militancy and Religious Education in Pakistan (USIP, 2008), and The Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States (Globe Pequot, 2008), among others. Her current book project with Saifina Ustad is Militant Piety and Lines of Control: The Literature of the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (Oxford University Press).

She is a member of Women in International Security, International Studies Association, American Political Science Association, the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, the American Institute of Afghan Studies and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and serves on the editorial board numerous scholarly and policy-analytic journals. She resigned her membership with the International Institute of Strategic Studies to and the Council on Foreign Relations to protest their consistent failures to address diversity issues in events and publications.

She is a many-time survivor of the University of Chicago. She earned her B.S. in Biological Chemistry in 1991. She also completed an M.A. from the Harris School of Public Policy as well as an M.A in South Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1997. In 2004, she received her PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations.

She can cause trouble in multiple languages.

Media Engagement

She is a frequent commentator on television and radio including the CBS, BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, Voice of America, Fox, Reuters, NPR among others. She has given extensive interviews to journalists with the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Businessweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and other print media outlets.