Walsh School of Foreign Service. She was an associate in the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government's Belfer Center in the International Security Program and Project at Managing the Atom in 2014-15, and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow 2013-14. Dr. Tabatabai received her Ph.D. in War Studies from the Department of War Studies, King's College London. She holds an M.A. in International Peace and Security with Distinction from the Department of War Studies, King's College London and a double B.A. in Political Science and Cinema and Cultural Studies from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.