Corri Zoli is director of sponsored research and development for International Studies Association (ISA) and senior research scholar in global affairs and international security at the University of Connecticut. Previously, Zoli was director of research and associate teaching professor for the Institute of Security, Policy and Law (SPL/INSCT), a joint advanced research center shared between the College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Zoli is also an affiliated faculty member at the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI) at Syracuse University’s College of Arts & Sciences, co-investigator (Co-I) for the SU Intelligence Community Center of Excellence (ICCAE), and a member of the Academic Advisory Board for the Warrior-Scholar’s Program. 

Zoli’s research focuses on contemporary problems of warfare and changing national and international security policies, with attention to the role of culture in changing global conflict norms. A strong component of Zoli’s research involves US military veterans, the pressures on the modern force structure, and the challenges of gray warfare for military personnel. Zoli teaches seminars on national security law and policy, law and war, South Asian and Middle East security, terrorism, humanitarian law, and forced migration. Zoli’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and Google, and her work has been published in Foreign Policy, Harvard National Security Journal, the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, among other venues. Zoli has developed many interdisciplinary research initiatives with partners in and beyond SU, including: the Institute for Veterans & Military Families (IVMF), United States Institute of Peace (USIP), New America Foundation (NAF), International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC), the US Department of State.