Biography

Dr. Alanna Krolikowski is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), where she specializes in policy for science, technology, and innovation.  Her research and teaching focus on policy for space activities, the Chinese and U.S. innovation systems, and China’s foreign relations. 

Dr. Krolikowski’s research has been published in the academic research journals Space Policy, Global Policy, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (A), the Journal of International Relations and Development, the Chinese Journal of International Politics, New Space, and the International Studies Review. She has twice testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission for the U.S. Congressional record and is a frequent contributor to news coverage of international developments in outer space.

Before joining Missouri S&T, Dr. Krolikowski was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the University of Alberta’s China Institute and a visiting professor in the society and economy of China at the University of Göttingen. 

Research Specializations

International Relations, at the intersection of International Political Economy and International Security Studies

Policy for Science, Technology, and Innovation

Comparative Politics

U.S.-China Relations

China’s Foreign Relations

Education

• 2013, PhD in Political Science, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
• 2006, Master of Arts in International Relations, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
• 2005, Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies and Political Science, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)