Rachel Hulvey

Rachel Ann Hulvey is a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia-Harvard China and the World and the Harvard Belfer International Security programs. She earned her doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024. Beginning in the fall of 2025, she will join Indiana University as an Assistant Professor at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

Her book project examines China’s influence on the international order, detailing the strategies it employs to build support for its proposals and analyzing the extent to which it successfully shapes and reforms global governance. The project focuses empirically on cyberspace, an issue area that China is strongly motivated to shape, and employs a mixed-methods approach that includes fieldwork in China and the United Nations, text analysis of cybersecurity negotiations, and elite experiments with diplomats.

She has held fellowships at the Harvard Carr Center Technology and Human Rights (2021-2022), the Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum (2022-2023) and the Hans J. Morgenthau Program at the Notre Dame International Security Center (2024-2025).