Marcia Byrom Hartwell's current research builds upon experience as an embedded civilian advisor with the U.S. Army in Iraq (2009–2011) and work as a 2013 CSCMO Scholar (Center for the Study of Civil-Military Operations at USMA, West Point) and 2011 Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, DC. Dr Hartwell received her DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford.