Kathleen Deloughery is now completing her Ph.D. in economics at The Ohio State University. Her dissertation is titled “A Cross Country Analysis of Terrorism and Government Policies.” Deloughery also specializes in labor economics and econometrics. She has been a Department of Homeland Security Fellow for the last few years, and is now researching variable government susceptibility to terrorism and the effects that terrorism has on elections. Deloughery has presented her research at the Midwest Economics Association, the Southern Economics Association, and the Canadian Economics Association. She has also attended and presented at workshops on the economics of national security and terrorism at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the University of Southern California. Deloughery also earned an M.A. in economics from Ohio State, after having completed a B.S. in economics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. At Ohio State, she is a Graduate Teaching Associate, and teaches a microeconomics course.
