William Spaniel

William Spaniel (PhD, University of Rochester 2015) specializes in formal theory and international conflict. Motivated by the United States's continued negotiations with Iran, his research investigates how bargaining has stymied nuclear proliferation for the past half-century. He is currently an assistant professor in political science at the University of Pittsburgh and was previously a Stanton nuclear security postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He has been teaching game theory since 2009, and his lectures have been viewed millions of times around the world. In 2011, he published the best-selling textbook Game Theory 101.