SSP News
May 27, 2026
Congratulations are in order for the Security Studies Program 2026 PhD graduates!
The MIT Security Studies Program congratulates our 2026 graduates!
We are honored to celebrate the hard-earned achievements of doctors Nicholas Blanchette, Wenyan Deng, Suzanne Freeman, Eleanor Freund, Eyal Hanfling, Wright Smith, Raymond Wang, and Diana Zhu. We look forward to your ongoing contributions to security studies and political science!
An additional congratulations to Raymond Wang for receiving the Lucien Pye Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis!
View the complete list of the MIT Department of Political Science graduates here.
(L-R: Professor Barry Posen, Professor Erik Lin-Greenberg, Nicholas Blanchette, Suzanne Freeman, Wenyan Deng, Diana Zhu, Raymond Wang (back), Eleanor Freund (back), Wright Smith, Professor M. Taylor Fravel, Professor Richard Nielsen, and Professor Caitlin Talmadge)