Daniel Samet

AWC Predoctoral Fellow

Biography

Daniel J. Samet is an America in the World Consortium Pre-Doctoral Fellow cross-training at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington, D.C. Daniel is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is completing his dissertation on U.S. defense policy toward Israel. He is also a Graduate Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security and has been a Graduate Fellow at the Rumsfeld Foundation and a Krauthammer Fellow at the Tikvah Fund. Daniel previously worked for the Office of Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), the Atlantic Council, and the National Endowment for Democracy.

His writing has appeared in National Review, Commentary, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. Daniel holds an M.A. in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a B.A. magna cum laude in History and French from Davidson College, where he was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa and competed in cross country and track and field.