Alba Ramos Escobar is a Ph.D. Student at UConn. A former teaching assistant at the North American Studies Program at the Universidad Veracruzana (University of Veracruz). She holds an M.A. in International Studies at El Colegio de Veracruz (The College of Veracruz), and a Law Undergraduate degree at the Universidad Veracruzana. She worked as a Human Rights lawyer before she engaged in the research work.

She studies the impact of domestic factors (such as culture, institutional design, history, and ideology) on foreign policy. She is also interested in the study of ideology construction, history of superpowers foreign policy,  diplomatic history, International Relations theories: Realism (classical and neoclassical) and Liberalism, foreign policy analysis, International Security, Securitization, and Grand Strategy.