Shannon P. Carcelli is Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. She studies the role of legislative and bureaucratic institutions in foreign policy, especially in the United States. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of California San Diego and a BA from Carleton College, in addition to three years of experience in the field of international development. During the 2018-2019 academic year, she served as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University's Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. During fall of 2023, she was a Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University Institute for Security and Conflict Studies (ISCS).