I am Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Intelligence Studies in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs with a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. I am also a faculty affiliate with the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies and Pitt Cyber. This academic year, I am a U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security fellow with the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College and a Non-Resident Fellow with the Modern War Institute at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Prior to coming to the University of Pittsburgh, I was a predoctoral research fellow with the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. I received my Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.

My research sits at the intersection of security and intelligence studies, with a focus on why and how leaders exploit secrecy on the world stage. My book, In the Shadow of International Law: Secrecy and Regime Change in the Postwar World, is published with Oxford University Press. It develops a legal theory of secret interventions that explains how the rise of the nonintervention principle in the mid-twentieth century created powerful incentives for leaders to conceal their role in regime change operations. My research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science​, European Journal of International Relations, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Global Security Studies​,  Journal of Peace Research​, and Journal of Strategies Studies​.
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You can reach me at: poznansky@pitt.edu