Dr. Mattox is Chair of the Political Science Department at the U.S. Naval Academy. She was President of Women In International Security (WIIS) from 1996 to 2003. Dr. Mattox has served on the Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State working on European and nonproliferation issues, including the Task Force on North Korea and the Working Group for Extension of the NPT, as well as a range of European issues. She was a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow at the State Department Office of Strategic and Theater Nuclear Policy, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, and she was an international affairs analyst, Congressional Research Service for foreign policy issues. Dr. Mattox is the author of numerous articles on European security architecture, nonproliferation, and Germany, as well as the co-author of Evolving European Defense Policies and NATO Enlargement: The National Debates.