She is also an Associate Professor (by courtesy) in the Business, Government, and Society Department at the McCombs School of Business and an affiliate of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Rachel is co-director of Innovations for Peace and Development, an interdisciplinary research program at UT Austin that provides mentored research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University.