Grace Mappes is a Russia Analyst on the Russia/Ukraine portfolio at the Institute for the Study of War. Grace is an alumna of the Hertog War Studies Program and supported ISW’s Russia/Ukraine portfolio as an intern during the buildup to and initial weeks of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Her research interests include Kremlin societal control, domestic extremism in Russia, and Russian global energy politics.
Grace holds a B.A. in International Relations and Global Studies and English from the University of Texas at Austin, where she also minored in Russian and earned a certificate in Security Studies.
