Elizabeth Shackelford

Elizabeth Shackelford is a lecturer at Dartmouth College, the senior policy director at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, and a foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune. She previously served as a career diplomat in the U.S. State Department, with postings in Warsaw, Poland, South Sudan, Somalia, and Washington, D.C. Her outstanding work in South Sudan during its civil war earned her the prestigious Barbara Watson Award for Consular Excellence. She gained international recognition for her principled resignation in protest of the State Department policies of the first Trump administration, which sparked important discussions about diplomacy and governance. That led to her book, “The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age,” which chronicles the challenges facing U.S. foreign policy in the modern world and won the Douglas Dillon Book Award.