Dr. Gabriella Gricius is a Fellow and the Media Coordinator with the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN). She received her Ph.D. from Colorado State University’s Political Science Department where her dissertation explored the prevalence of low-tension discourse in Greenland, Svalbard, the Northern Sea Route, and the Northwest Passage. Her research interests broadly cover international relations, Arctic security, the potential for desecuritization during great power competition, and the role of experts in security decision-making processes. 

Outside of academia, she also works with the European Leadership Network (ELN) on research on hybrid threats, is a Fellow with the Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro-Atlantic Security (YGLN), and acts as a Senior Research Associate at the Arctic Institute. She was recently a participant with the Newport Arctic Scholars Initiative and a Summer Associate with the RAND Corporation. Her writing is published in Foreign Policy, the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, International Politics, European Security, Global Studies Quarterly, among other outlets. Previously she was a Guest Researcher at both the University of Copenhagen and the Fridtjof Nansen Insitute, a Fellow with Bridging the Gap, a Junior Lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, a Senior Research Associate at the Public International Law and Policy Group’s Netherlands Office, and worked with the International Criminal Court and the Hague Center for Strategic Studies. She received her BA from Boston University and MA from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

• Policy Primer: Academic Research on China’s Arctic Interests in English, 2006-2021: Preliminary Quantitative Analysis, by Gabriella Gricius with Nicholas Glesby, Ruting Guo, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, July 2023
• Strategic Perspective: Beavers and Lions: Comparing Canadian and Norwegian Arctic Narratives, by Gabriella Gricius, February 2023
• Reading List: Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Community-Level Security compiled by Gabriella Gricius, March 2022
• Reading List: Greenland, compiled by Gabriella Gricius and Joe Crowther, March 2022
• Reading List: Alaska Primer, compiled by Gabriella Gricius, March 2022
• Reading List: Economic Security, compiled by Joe Crowther and Gabriella Gricius, March 2022
• Policy Primer: Public Opinion Polls Across the Arctic, 2007 – 2021: Dataset, Methodology, and Takeaways on Post-2014 and the Arctic, by Gabriella Gricius, November 2021
• Event Report: The North American Arctic Forum Event Report, March 2021
• Policy Primer: Human Security, Europe, and the Arctic, Gabriella Gricius, February 2021