Alice mcCARTHY

Alice McCarthy is an A.B. candidate at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, with a minor in History and the Practice of Diplomacy. Her senior thesis examines healthcare reconstruction in post-Assad Syria, focusing on how the medical workforce is rebuilt.

She was a contributing author to the Stimson Center’s 2026 Future of International Cooperation report,“Redefining Global Trust”, and served on the steering committee of the Coalition for the UN We Need, organising the United Nations Global Futures Forum 2026 in the summer of her junior year. She spent her sophomore summer in Stockholm at the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), where she supported comparative research on electoral integrity, institutional repair, and democratic legitimacy. During her freshman summer, she taught English in rural China, gaining first hand insight into centralised governance and its impact on civic identity and education.

On campus she has been a research assistant at the School of Public and International Affairs, coding incident-level media data from Middle Eastern conflict zones for the Denial in Rebellion Dataset. Outside her academic and research work she is Co-President of Policy Punchline, rows for Princeton’s varsity women’s team, and serves as head coach for Special Olympics New Jersey, running weekly sports programmes for adults with intellectual disabilities.