Julia C. Morse is a visiting fellow at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, an inaugural recipient of the Robert A. Belfer International Affairs Fellowship in European Security from the Council on Foreign Relations, and an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Her research examines international organisations and global governance, with particular attention to issues of monitoring, compliance, and market-driven enforcement. Her book The Bankers' Blacklist: Unofficial Market Enforcement and the Global Fight against Illicit Financing (Cornell University Press, 2022) discusses how the Financial Action Task Force has used a public non-complier list to incentivise countries around the world to adopt more stringent laws against terrorist financing. The book was shortlisted for the BISA IPEG book prize. Julia's work has appeared in top academic journals like International Organization and The Journal of Politics, as well as public-facing outlets like The Washington Post and The Atlantic.

Prior to academia, Julia worked as a Presidential Management Fellow at the US Department of State in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and at the US Mission to the United Nations on the sanctions team. She also worked for three years as an intelligence analyst at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Julia was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Master's degree and PhD from Princeton University and holds a bachelor's degree in public policy and political science from Duke University.