Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba is an Assistant Professor in the International Studies department at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC. Dr. Sciubba has studied at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, and is a former demographics consultant to the US Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy). She is the author of The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security (Praeger Security International/ ABC-CLIO, 2011) and her research has appeared in International Interactions, International Area Studies Review, the Journal of Human Rights, and Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, among others.
Her work has been recognized as outstanding by the National Defense University Foundation, which awarded her the 2009 Kiley Award for Best Feature for her article “The Defense Implications of Demographic Trends” in Joint Force Quarterly.
Her work has been recognized as outstanding by the National Defense University Foundation, which awarded her the 2009 Kiley Award for Best Feature for her article “The Defense Implications of Demographic Trends” in Joint Force Quarterly.
Professor Sciubba has become a
sought-after expert in the field of population and national security,
particularly the political, economic, and social effects of population aging. She has published chapters on political demography in Ageing Populations in Post-Industrial Democracies (ed. Vanhuysse
and Goerres, Routledge, 2012) and PoliticalDemography (ed. Goldstone, Kaufmann, and Toft, Paradigm Publishers, 2012). Her work has been recognized as outstanding by the National Defense University Foundation, which awarded her the 2009 Kiley Award for Best Feature for her article “The Defense Implications of Demographic Trends” in Joint Force Quarterly. She has been invited to speak at such distinguished venues as the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars, the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, the U.S. Army
War College, and several other prominent think-tanks and U.S. government
offices. She participates regularly in academic conferences and panels,
presenting original research on political demography and discussing pedagogical
issues with college-level environmental education. She has shared her work with the public by publishing on the political
implications of demographic trends in The Huffington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer,
and The New Security Beat blog.
Sciubba received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, where she
was awarded a graduate fellowship with the Harrison Program on the Future
Global Agenda, in 2008. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, sits on the Alumnae Board of
Agnes Scott College, and is active with the Women’s Foundation for a Greater
Memphis. She received her B.A. from Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, GA. Her
courses at Rhodes College include Population and National Security, the Politics of Migration, Global
Ecopolitics, Comparative Ecopolitics, Introduction to International Relations,
Introduction to Comparative Politics, and Environmental Studies & Sciences
Senior Seminar.
See her article on "Population in Defense Policy Planning"
