Developing Leaders Beyond the Classroom
To support the development of complex thinking and character essential to officership, the Resnick Center creates, funds, and facilitates a variety of internships. The most common of these opportunities involve working on issues related to atrocity prevention or complex conflicts at the U.S. Army War College as well as Center-sponsored research projects. These internships often serve as a springboard for deeper engagement with the Center’s programming and a sustained commitment to the study of mass atrocity. Cadets who have participated in RCHGS internships have gone on to win Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, and other prestigious scholarships with impressive regularity.
U.S. Army War College
Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute
In collaboration with the US Army War College in Carlisle PA, the US Army War College Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute Internship allows cadets to work on a wide range of topics and issues tied to atrocity prevention and strategy. Past interns and their research are listed below.
Past Cadet Research
Cadet Sam Mulvey ’26: Worked with Dr. Marybeth Ulrich on constitutional oaths and how they operate.
Cadets Sophie Zhang-Fernandez ‘26, Nathaniel Whitmore ‘26, Keegan Terhune, and Lucas Schwed ‘26: Researched topics directly or tangentially related to understanding and preventing atrocity, understanding the spread of hate, disinformation, and the undermining of democracy. Specific projects included intrastate conflict, information and coercion, the Ukraine War, and food insecurity.
Cadet Bella Sullivan ’24: Worked with the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) on various case studies related to internal conflicts, insurgency, and counterinsurgency.
Cadet Langdon Ogburn ‘21: Spent two weeks at the US Army War College’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI), where he studied US atrocity prevention efforts with the goal of determining how the US has operationalized Responsibility to Protect (R2P).
Cadet Philip Kammler ’21: Working in the Center for Strategic Leadership, he conducted research on multiple topics around the use of United States military at the southern border.
Cadet Sam Haseman ’21: Studied Chian’s national security policy and its role as a potential force to mitigate atrocities in Myanma.
Cadet Jamar Williams ’20: Explored how wargames are researched, built, and utilized by multiple levels of the Armed Forces.
Cadet Nathaniel Rodriguez ’20: Research on border developments
Cadets Samir Streatfield ’19 and Ulysses McGuinness ‘19: Studied mass atrocity in Africa and South Asia and worked on the development of a case study on South Sudan and Myanmar with COL (Retired) Dwight Raymond and State Department South Asia experts.
Cadet Sameul Jones ‘17: Studied mass atrocity in Africa, primarily working on the development of a Nigeria/Boko Harma case study with COL (Retired) Dwight Raymond.
Cadet Curtis Valencia ‘16: Studied legal and international changes that undergirded international intervention in Liby in 2011.
Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village Internship
Rwanda
In 2018, the CHGS developed a new partnership with the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda, which allowed cadets to visit sites of genocide memory and observe reconciliation programs and businesses. Cadets also assisted with projects at the Youth Village, a model village for the most vulnerable originally designed to provide orphans with a family, medical and psychological care, and an education geared towards university preparation.
Cadets AnnMarie Moolenaar ’21 and Conner Sprout ’20
Pacific Command Internship
Asia-Pacific Center for Strategic Studies
The Pacific Command Internship allows cadets to conduct research at the Asia-Pacific Center for Strategic Studies for five weeks to create a situation assessment and mass atrocity risk assessment
Cadet Reese Staley ‘17: Created a mass atrocity risk assessment for Myanmar (Burma)
State Department Internship
Cadet Jess Ho: Held two State Department internships. In the summer of 2023, she researched Russia and China relations and during the 2024-2025 academic year she worked as West Point’s first virtual State Department Intern analyzing the threat of mass atrocities in Somalia and Mozambique
Bundeswehr University
Cadet Gabe Beck ‘16: Researched different forms of Holocaust memory and memorialization during the “Munich under the Swastika” program.
RCHGS Interns
Laura Courchesne, University of Georgia Honors College ‘17
Laura Courchesne served as the first CHGS intern at the US Army War College where she worked with the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute to research Nigeria and Boko Haram. Her research was integrated into a Nigeria and Boko Haram Situation Assessment, which was used by the US Army in Africa.
Alexandra [Ola] Morehead, Harvard University ‘17
Alexandra Morehead worked on a situation assessment on Ukraine with the European Command (EUCOM). Her contribution concentrated on human rights violations in Ukraine between 2014 and 2017. Alexandra also regularly attended Dr. Frey’s XH 415 course.