Oriana Skylar Mastro Explained

Oriana Skylar Mastro
Other Names:	梅惠琳
Nationality:	American
Education:	Stanford University (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Occupation:	Political scientist, China specialist
Employer:	Stanford University, American Enterprise Institute
Spouse:	Arzan Tarapore
Awards:	U.S. Air Force Individual Reservist Company Grade Officer of the Year (2016 and 2022)
Website:	Embed: yes Branch: Reserve Rank: Major Awards: Meritorious Service Medal

Oriana Skylar Mastro is an American political scientist and author. She is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and assistant professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a strategic planner at the US Indo-Pacific Command. Her research focuses on Asia-Pacific security.

Career

Mastro holds a Bachelor of Arts (2006) in East Asian studies from Stanford University (where she studied Mandarin) and a Master of Arts (2009) and PhD (2013) in politics from Princeton University.^[1] From 2006 to 2007, Mastro was a junior fellow for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's China program.^{[2] [3]} In 2008, while a doctoral student at Princeton, Mastro met with then deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), Lieutenant General Dan P. Leaf, at a conference. Leaf suggested that she enlist in the U.S. military after learning about her plan to pursue a summer internship with USINDOPACOM to better research how the military dealt with issues in the Asia–Pacific region.^[4] Despite initially deciding to continue with an internship instead, Mastro enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in late 2008 and later started officer training to commission as a second lieutenant.

In 2009, Mastro joined the Department of Defense as an analyst for USINDOPACOM. Subsequently, in 2010, she worked for the Project 2049 Institute as a summer associate. From 2012 to 2013, she was a fellow at the Center for a New American Security.^[5] In 2013, Mastro was appointed assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and in 2020, she was appointed a center fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.^{[6] [7]}

In the meantime, Mastro has also continued her military service in the U.S. Air Force Reserve.^[1] She was named the Air Force's Individual Reservist Company Grade Officer of the Year in both 2016 and 2022.^{[8] [9]}

Publications

• Upstart: How China Became A Great Power, Oxford University Press, May 23, 2024^{[10] [11]}
• The Military Challenge of the People's Republic of China, in Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak, Hoover Institution, November 1, 2023^{[12] [13]}
• Project Atom 2023: A Competitive Strategies Approach for U.S. Nuclear Posture through 2035, Center for Strategic and International Studies, September 30, 2023 (co-authored with Heather Williams, Kelsey Hartigan, Lachlan MacKenzie, Robert Soofer, Tom Karako, Franklin Miller, Leonor Tomero, and Jon Wolfsthal)^[14]
• Deepening USTaiwan Cooperation Through Semiconductors, in Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security, Hoover Institution, July 18, 2023 (co-authored with Kharis Templeman)^{[15] [16]}
• The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime, Cornell University Press, Security Affairs Series, 2019^[17]

Personal life

Mastro is married to Arzan Tarapore, a research scholar at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.^{[18] [19]}

References

1. Web site: May 8, 2017 . AF Reservist is leading scholar on Chinese military . June 13, 2024 . Air Reserve Personnel Center . en-US.
2. Web site: Press Release: China's Military Escalation Could Destabilize Taiwan Strait . June 15, 2024 . carnegieendowment.org . en.
3. Web site: Assessing the Threat: The Chinese Military and Taiwan's Security . June 15, 2024 . carnegieendowment.org . en.
4. Web site: University . Stanford . November 11, 2021 . Combining military service and scholarship . August 10, 2023 . Stanford News . en.
5. Web site: Oriana Skylar Mastro . https://web.archive.org/web/20191005132659/https://www.aei.org/profile/oriana-skylar-mastro/ . October 5, 2019 . August 10, 2023 . American Enterprise Institute - AEI . en-US.
6. Web site: Oriana Skylar Mastro . August 10, 2023 . fsi.stanford.edu . en.
7. Web site: February 10, 2020 . China and East Asian Security Expert Oriana Skylar Mastro to Become FSI's . June 15, 2024 . fsi.stanford.edu . en.
8. Web site: July 13, 2023 . Center Fellow Oriana Skylar Mastro Named 2022 Air Force Individual . June 15, 2024 . aparc.fsi.stanford.edu . en.
9. Web site: Konicki . John . October 23, 2020 . Congratulations to Oriana Skylar Mastro . June 17, 2024 . American Enterprise Institute - AEI . en-US.
10. Book: Mastro, Oriana Skylar . Upstart: how China became a great power . 2024 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-769507-4 . New York, NY.
11. News: June 6, 2024 . Transcript: China's great power strategy . June 20, 2024 . Financial Times.
12. Web site: Mastro . Oriana Skylar . November 1, 2023 . The Military Challenge of the People's Republic of China . December 6, 2023 . Hoover Institution.
13. Web site: Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak . December 6, 2023 . Hoover Institution . en.
14. Williams . Heather . Hartigan . Kelsey . MacKenzie . Lachlan . Soofer . Robert . Karako . Tom . Mastro . Oriana Skylar . Miller . Franklin . Tomero . Leonor . Wolfsthal . Jon . September 29, 2023 . Project Atom 2023 . . en.
15. Web site: Templeman . Kharis . Mastro . Oriana Skylar . Oriana Skylar Mastro . Deepening USTaiwan Cooperation through Semiconductors . December 6, 2023 . Hoover Institution.
16. Web site: Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security . December 6, 2023 . Hoover Institution . en.
17. Web site: The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime . August 10, 2023 . American Enterprise Institute - AEI . en-US.
18. Web site: Georgetown Visitors campion-hall . December 6, 2023 . www.campion.ox.ac.uk.
19. Web site: Arzan Tarapore . December 6, 2023 . fsi.stanford.edu . en.