Elizabeth Good

Prior to joining CISAC, Elizabeth was an International Security Program Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, a Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program, a USIP-Minerva Peace and Security Fellow, and a Dissertation Fellow at the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. She was a former SSHRC Doctoral Fellow and a Graduate Research Fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Additionally, she was the International Relations Editorial Assistant for Perspectives on Politics, where she read and assessed all IR submissions for publication. Elizabeth has worked as a Gender Specialist with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kosovo and as a Gender Consultant for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Ghana.

Elizabeth works at the intersection of international relations, comparative politics, and public policy, focusing on gender and politics, peace and security, and multimethod research. She specializes in women’s representation in high-level peace and security negotiations, testing the conditions that facilitate provisions for women in peace agreements. Elizabeth conceptualizes and measures power dynamics governing negotiations, and she tests how individuals advocate for themselves in unfavorable settings. Her findings offer insights into human security, diplomacy, negotiation outcomes, gender norms, and representation. She leverages multimethod research, combining statistical analysis, experiments, process tracing, and case studies.

Her hobbies include being an avid skier, hiker, and biker, and she even completed 400km of Canada’s Great Divide Trail in Summer 2024. She loves to bake and is passionate about finding the perfect donut.