Faculty - Department of Defense Analysis
Defense Analysis Department Chair, Dr. Carter Malkasian
Email: carter.malkasian@nps.edu
Professor Carter Malkasian was the senior civilian advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford from 2015 to 2019. He has extensive experience in conflict zones, especially Afghanistan and Iraq, and has published several books. He in Garmser district in southern Helmand province, Afghanistan for two years (2009 to 2011), as the State political officer working alongside five consecutive infantry battalions, Afghan tribal leaders, and Afghan local leaders in villages on the Helmand River. Before that, he was a civilian advisor to the I Marine Expeditionary Force in al-Anbar province for one year in 2004–2005 and six months in 2006. He also worked Kunar in 2007 and Honduras in 2012; and was General Dunford’s senior advisor in Afghanistan from March 2013 to August 2014. His newest book is the award-winning The American War in Afghanistan: A History. The New York Times rated it as one of the top 100 books of 2021. His 2013 book, War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier (Oxford University Press), won the 2014 silver medal for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Arthur Ross Book Award. Other books include Illusions of Victory: The Anbar Awakening and the Islamic State, A History of Modern Wars of Attrition, and The Korean War, 1950-1953. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and completed his doctorate in history at Oxford University. He speaks Pashto.
Faculty
Expertise: Military organizations and technological change, conflict in the information age, and strategic design
Ph.D., in Political Science, Stanford University,
jarquilla@nps.edu
Expertise: WPS; Inter- and Cross-Cultural Communication; Interagency Collaboration; Social Psychology
M.A., Food Studies, University of the Pacific, 2020
smbaho@nps.edu
831-760-1199
Expertise: Public Policy, Environmental Policy, Public Administration, National Security Affairs
Ph.D., Public Affairs, 2023
ksbailey@nps.edu
Expertise: Strategic Competition, Innovation, Defense Economics
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Davis, 2006
ljblanke@nps.edu
Expertise: Comparative Strategy. Asymmetric Warfare. Irregular Warfare. Legitimacy in War
Ph.D., Political Science, Boston University, 1993
daborer@nps.edu
831-656-2117
Expertise: Advanced Technology, Intelligence, NPS Leadership
nbudden@nps.edu
Expertise: Wargaming, Information Operations Modeling, Combat Modeling, Agent-based Modeling, Joint Campaign Analysis, Megacities
Ph.D., Operations Research, Air Force Institute of Technology, 2006
reburks@nps.edu
831.656.2787
Expertise: Deputy Director, RDFP Global ECCO Program
MBA, International Management, Thunderbird School of Management, 2001
npchrist@nps.edu
Expertise: Information Warfare, Codes and Ciphers, Networks and Society, and Data Communications
Ph.D., in Computer Science, Purdue University,
dedennin@nps.edu
Expertise: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management
Ph.D., University of Virginia-Darden School of Business, 2003,
ndew@nps.edu
408-373-7237
Expertise: Social Networks, Dark Networks, Terrorism, Irregular Warfare
Ph.D., Sociology, Stanford University, 2007
sfeverto@nps.edu
831-656-2709
Expertise: Mathematical Modeling. Game Theory, Optimization, Probability & Statistics
Ph.D. at Clemson University,
wpfox@nps.edu
Expertise: Terrorism, Political Violence, International Relations
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 2001
mefreema@nps.edu
831-656-3731
Expertise: Irregular Warfare and Airpower; Special Operations
bhgreens@nps.edu
Expertise: Influence and Persuasion; Psychological Resilience and Resistance; Social Psychology of Extremism, Polarization, and Conflict; Language Analysis; Experimental and Quantitative Methods
Ph.D., Experimental (Social) Psychology, University of Montana, 2015
shannon.houck@nps.edu
Expertise: International History, Naval Warfare, Irregular Warfare, China, U.S. Foreign Relations
Ph.D., International History, Harvard University, 2020
Thomas.jamison@nps.edu
Expertise: Global ECCO Program, Security Cooperation
M.A., Security Studies (Combating Terrorism), Naval Postgraduate School, 2014
akatormu@nps.edu
Expertise: DoD IO Center for Research, Global ECCO Program
M.A., Public Policy, Panetta Institute, 2010
rdlorent@nps.edu
Expertise: Cyber Strategy and Policy, Cyber-enabled Information Operations, Operations in the Information Environment
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013
rmaness@nps.edu
773-655-4885
Expertise: Irregular Warfare Education
Ph.D., Education & Organizational Leadership (Current Doctoral Student), 2022
michael.mollohan@nps.edu
Expertise: Anthropology
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010
stnaficy@nps.edu; siamaknaficy@yahoo.com
310-849-3633
Expertise: Anthropology (Behavioral and Cultural), Sociolinguistic Analysis, Chinese Thought and Grand Strategy, Cognitive Science, Open-source China
MA, Religious Studies and Cognitive Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021
julia.mcclenon@nps.edu
Ph.D., School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, 1987
gmccormick@nps.edu
Expertise: Co-Director, CORE Lab, Director, Littoral Operations Center
Ph.D., Information Science, Naval Postgraduate School,
nwporter@nps.edu
831-747-0998
Expertise: Helping Defense Analysis students achieve their academic, career, and life goals.
ian.rice@nps.edu
Expertise: Design Thinking; Grand Strategy; Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Wicked Problems; Social Network Analysis; Change and Transformation; Power and Politics
Ph.D., in Education, Stanford University,
nroberts@nps.edu; drnancyroberts@gmail.com
Expertise: Social Network Analysis, Visual Analytics, Maritime Network Analysis, Social Media Analysis, Geospatial Analysis
M.A., International Policy Analysis, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 2011
rcschroe@nps.edu
Expertise: National Security Policy, Military Strategy, Special Operations, Irregular Warfare
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001
kisepp@nps.edu
Expertise: National security, international relations, counterterrorism, irregular warfare, nonproliferation
M.A., International Policy Studies and Russian Language, Monterey Institute of International Studies,
eskinner@nps.edu
Expertise: Export Control and Related Border Security; Regional Cooperation Agreements
rksmit1@nps.edu
Expertise: Ethics, Applied Ethics, Organizational Ethics, Just War Theory, Ethics of War and the Military Profession, Ethics of New and Emerging Technology
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Connecticut, 2012
bjstraws@nps.edu
719 440 5670
Expertise: Intelligence, Terrorism
Ph.D., University of Oregon Political Science, 1997
jdtulliu@nps.edu
831-346-9022
Expertise: Technology and International Security, Coercion and Competition, Security Studies, IR Theory
Ph.D., Political Science, George Washington University, 2015
tvolpe1@nps.edu
Expertise: Qualitative Methods, International Security, Conflict Processes, Ethnic Politics, Statistical Methods, and Computational Modeling
Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University, 2008
tcwarren@nps.edu
Expertise: Global ECCO, Strategic/Serious Games, Partnership Building
amsimune@nps.edu
831-656-6297
Expertise: Command and Leadership
M.A. National Security Affairs (Special Operations Curriculum), Naval Postgraduate School, 1995; Fellow, Naval Postgraduate School, 2005; Distinguished Alumnus, Naval Postgraduate School, 2018
Eric.wendt@nps.edu
Ph.D., Cultural Evolution and Human Behavioral Ecology, University of California, Davis, 2013
mrzeffer@nps.edu