Siobhan Flanagan is a graduate of the University of Chicago’s Committee on International Relations (2023) and The Catholic University of America (2022). In undergrad at Catholic University, she double-majored in French and Francophone Studies and Politics. This included writing and defending a senior thesis in French on the “immunity thesis,” French historiography, and French cultural memory following World War II. Her master’s thesis, “‘Finders Keepers’: Weapons Leakage from US Military Foreign Security Assistance,” explored the conditions and mechanisms that lead to unintended weapons proliferation to violent non-state actors from U.S. military foreign security assistance during active conflicts. Siobhan continues to be interested in a range of international relations and security topics and learning new languages.