Marisol Maddox

Marisol Maddox is a senior Arctic fellow at the Institute of Arctic Studies in the Dickey Center at Dartmouth University. Her research considers the Arctic nexus of climate change, security, and geopolitics. She is particularly interested in how actorless threats—such as the surpassing of planetary boundaries—converge and interface with conventional security challenges and strategic thinking, as well as place-based resilience. Maddox is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a nonresident research fellow at the Center for Climate and Security. Most recently, Maddox served as an Arctic subject matter expert at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Polar Institute from 2018 to 2025. She has contributed Arctic expertise to the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, the Newport Arctic Scholars Initiative of the U.S. Naval War College and was an adjunct professor at Syracuse University's Maxwell School for a graduate-level course. Her commentary on Arctic security, climate change, and geopolitics has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Bloomberg, Business Insider, BBC, and Science, among other outlets. Maddox holds a master’s degree in international security with a concentration in transnational challenges from George Mason University’s Schar School and a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies with a concentration in ecosystems from SUNY Binghamton.