Clay Katsky

Clay Silver Katsky focuses on Cold War History with a particular emphasis on Congress and oversight of covert action. He is especially interested in how power has been shared between the executive and legislative branches of government, especially in terms of national defense. In the Spring of 2013, Clay won an undergraduate writing award and was given the Benjamin T. Ford History Memorial Fund Prize upon his graduation from Pace University in New York City. That fall he began working towards an MA degree in History from the George Washington University and at the end of his first academic year was awarded the Howard M. Sachar Prize for Best Research Paper 2013-2014. For Summer 2014, Clay accepted a summer internship at the National Security Archive and also was given an opportunity to assist a professor with research for a book on the history of U.S. gun control. For his Fall 2014 semester, Clay has accepted an extension of his internship at the National Security Archive and will begin to heavily research his MA thesis topic, which examines attempts in the 1950s to formalize Congressional oversight of the CIA. He will be submitting applications to PhD programs for Fall 2015.