Nick M. Masellis
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Biography
Nick M. Masellis graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Irvine with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Political Science, International Relations. His honor’s thesis was titled Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Iraq, Military Culture, and Unconventional Warfare. While at UC Irvine, he was a co-founder and chair of the Baghdad School Project, which helped provide educational tools to Iraqi children throughout the country.
Prior to college, Nick served in the US Army as a military police soldier and served with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from March 2003 to April 2004.
While in Washington, DC, as an undergraduate, Nick interned at the Institute of National Strategic Studies (INSS) at the National Defense University (NDU) during summer 2007. Most recently, Nick completed his term as a Joseph S. Nye Researcher at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) working on a variety of projects related to national security and military policy.
Since leaving Washington, he has taken a position as a Research Associate at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC), where he is also pursuing a Master’s in Defense Decision Making from the NPS School of Graduate International Studies. His research interests include irregular warfare, counterterrorism, defense policy and proliferation issues.