Amy Austin Holmes is currently a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University. Dr. Holmes has a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and previously served as a tenured Associate Professor at the American University in Cairo, and has held Visiting Scholar positions at Harvard University and Brown University. She is the author of Social Unrest and American Military Bases in Turkey and Germany since 1945, published by Cambridge University Press, and Coups and Revolutions: Mass Mobilization, the Egyptian Military and the United States from Mubarak to Sisi, published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Holmes is the first person to have conducted a field survey of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) based on numerous trips to all six provinces of Northeast Syria between 2015-2021. Her research has also analyzed the creation of local governance structures in Northeast Syria and the transformation of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict through an original dataset of armed conflict events along the Turkish-Syrian border.
Discipline
Sociology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Security Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Turkey
Syria
Iraq
Specialties
Social Movements/Revolutions
US Military Presence
Education
DPhil
| 2009
| Sociology
| Johns Hopkins University
