Marisol Maddox is Senior Arctic Fellow with Institute of Arctic Studies

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Marisol Maddox, Senior Arctic Fellow with Institute of Arctic Studies

The Institute for Arctic Studies (IAS) in the Dickey Center is pleased to announce a collaboration with Marisol Maddox as a 2025 Senior Arctic Fellow. Ms. Maddox also serves as a Sandia Arctic Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and a Non-Resident Research Fellow with the Center for Climate and Security (CCS). 

An Arctic climate and security expert, Ms. Maddox is well-known internationally for her work on emerging "actorless threats"—including rapid climate change and biodiversity loss—and the ways in which they intersect with the conventional threat environment. Her research on the implications of those threats has been essential for informing Arctic and international policy and security strategies, as well as place-based climate resilience efforts.

"Marisol Maddox brings an exceptional depth of Arctic expertise at the intersection of climate change, security, and governance - issues that are more pressing than ever in international diplomacy and of great interest to a diversity of Dartmouth students, faculty, and alumni," said Institute of Arctic Studies Director, Dr. Melody Brown Burkins (Guarini '95 '98), "Her work as a Senior Arctic Fellow in the Institute of Arctic Studies will help amplify Dartmouth's visibility and impact in Arctic scholarship and leadership in hosting timely, policy-relevant dialogs about the future of climate and security in the North."

In just her first week as IAS Senior Arctic Fellow, Ms. Maddox has already served on a panel discussing the future of US-Canadian relations and given interviews to international media about the Trump Administration's foreign policy statements regarding Greenland (e.g., Deutsche Welle: Greenland's future: Global powers race for the Arctic, February 12, 2025).  

Over the next year, Ms. Maddox will work closely with the Institute of Arctic Studies to provide high-level project management on key climate, security, governance, and policy projects the Institute of Arctic Studies is already co-leading with partners around the world. These include an international partnership with Norway, Canada, and Germany to develop recommendations for the practice of polar science diplomacy, a project advancing the Institute of Arctic Studies' "North American Arctic Speaker Series" with the U.S. State Department Arctic Office, and an emerging project with Finland, Norway, Greenland, Canada, and Sweden to co-produce an "Arctic Science Diplomacy Toolkit" with Indigenous and non-Indigenous Arctic leaders.

Ms. Maddox regularly teaches about the Arctic at the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies, the Foreign Service Institute, the Canada School of Public Service, and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, among other institutions. She also recently taught a graduate level course on Environmental Security as an adjunct professor at Syracuse University's Maxwell School (2024) and has served as a Newport Arctic Scholar at the US Naval War College. She is eager to contribute to the Institute of Arctic Studies and Dickey Center's ongoing work to advise Dartmouth students pursuing career opportunities in international policy and diplomacy.  

Ms. Maddox holds an M.A. in International Security with a concentration in Transnational Challenges from George Mason University's Schar School. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Ecosystems from Binghamton University. She frequently publishes and speaks on Arctic security, climate change, and geopolitics. Her commentary has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Business Insider, BBC, and Science, among other outlets.

The Institute of Arctic Studies (IAS) at the Dickey Center for International Understanding is Dartmouth's crossroads for multidisciplinary Arctic scholarship and global policy dialogs that center inclusion, justice, equity, and Indigenous Knowledge in solutions to Arctic and global challenges.