Hilary Reininger is an associate policy researcher at RAND. Her research broadly falls under defense and national security, and specializes in false and misleading information, truth decay, emerging technology and generative AI, recruitment and human capital, strategic competition, conflict analysis, asymmetric conflicts, force posture, and cyber warfare. Reininger is a mixed methods researcher, using theory and tools from sociology, psychology, statistics, and conflict studies. She is experienced in survey design and analysis, interviewing, thematic coding, R, social network analysis, and text analysis.
Reininger has studied in Serbia, Kosovo, the United Kingdom, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and Jordan. She has studied and speaks both Arabic and Spanish. She has a Ph.D. in public policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School, an M.S. in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University and a B.A. in Middle East studies and Arabic from Brigham Young University.
Ph.D. in public policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.S. in conflict analysis and resolution, George Mason University; B.A. in Middle East studies and Arabic, Brigham Young University
R; VBA; Spanish; Arabic
