Audrye Wong

Audrye Wong is an assistant professor of political science and international relations at the University of Southern California. Her research examines how states use non-military means, including economic and informational tools, to gain geopolitical influence. Audrye’s current book project analyzes the strategies and effectiveness of economic statecraft. Other projects examine authoritarian informational statecraft, foreign influence operations, and the role of diasporas in international relations. Before coming to USC, Audrye was a Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and MIT’s Security Studies Program. She received a PhD in Security Studies from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Audrye has held affiliations with Harvard’s Fairbank Center, the Wilson Center, the Brookings Institution, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research has been supported by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Tobin Project, and the Bradley Foundation.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Princeton University (2014 — 2019)

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations University of Southern California (2021)
• China and the World Program An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard University (2019 — 2021)
• Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard Kennedy School (2019 — 2021)
• Postdoctoral Fellow The Brookings Institution (2019 — 2020)
• Junior Fellow Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2013 — 2014)