Biography
Jacob Cosgrove is a senior at The University of Texas at Austin double majoring in Middle Eastern studies, with a focus on national security, as well as international relations and global studies. Cosgrove was an Undergraduate Senior Fellow at the Clements Center and a former Brumley Undergraduate Scholar with the Strauss Center, where he researched education reform in the Gaza Strip. His academic interests include exploring the history of the modern Middle East, with a focus on U.S. foreign policy in the region since the Second World War. Cosgrove recently finished his Middle Eastern studies capstone project, titled Winds Blow East: Erdogan’s Quest for Regional Hegemony, which detailed Turkish foreign policy during the Erdogan years.