PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

•Director of DA-NPS Design Program (2010-2015)
•Co-Founder and Co-Director, CORE Lab, Department of Defense Analysis, School of Operational and Information Sciences, Naval Postgraduate School (2006-2010)
•Professor, Department of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School (2005-2015)
•Professor of Strategic Management, Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School, (1990-2005 and joint appointment 2005-2015)
•Professor of National Security Affairs (joint appointment), Department of National Security, Graduate School of International Studies (2001-2004)
•Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (1987)
•Associate Professor of Organization Behavior, Department of Administrative Sciences, Naval Postgraduate School, (1985-1989)
•Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota (1983-1985).

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
•Superior Civil Service Award, Department of the Navy, 2 December 2015.
•Research Recognition Award, Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School, 2003
•Freider Naschold Award for Best Paper, International Public Management Network Conference 2000, Sidney, Australia.
•Charles Levine Best Paper Award, Public Sector Division, Academy of Management, 1989

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Monographs:
•Roberts, N.C. 2023. Design Strategy: Challenges in Wicked Problem Territory. Cambridge: MIT Press.
•Arquilla, J. and Roberts, N.C. 2017. The Design for Warfare. Monterey, CA: DoD Information
Operations Center for Research at the Naval Postgraduate School.
•Roberts, N.C. Ed. 2016. Strategic Design for SOCPAC 2030. Monterey, CA: Naval Postgraduate
School.
•Berg-Knutsen, E. and Roberts, N.C. (Eds.) 2015. Strategic Design for NORSOF 2025. Monterey, CA:
Naval Postgraduate School.
•Roberts, N.C. (Ed.). 2007. The Age of Direct Citizen Participation. New York: ME. Sharpe.
•Roberts, N.C. (Ed.). 2002. Transformative Power of Dialogue. London: Elsevier Press.
•Roberts, N.C. and King, P.J. 1996. Transforming Public Policy: Dynamics of Policy
Entrepreneurship and Innovation. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
•Thomas, K.W. and Roberts, N.C. Eds. 1988. Troubled Waters: A Sourcebook of Cases in
Management and Organization. Monterey, CA: Naval Postgraduate School.

Selected Journal Articles, Chapters:
•Arquilla, J. and Roberts, N.C. 2020. “Post-COVID Grand Strategy,” The National Interest, No 169, Sept-Oct, pp. 63-69.
•Roberts, N.C. 2017. “SOF as Designers.” Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Special Operations
Forces. G. Højstrup Christensen (Ed). Copenhagen: Royal Danish Defence College, pp 120-140.
•Roberts, N.C. and Everton, S.F. 2016. “Monitoring and Disrupting Dark Networks: A Bias
Toward the Center and What It Costs Us.” Middle East Review of Public Administration, 2(1): 1-18; also published in Eradicating Terrorism from the Middle East: Policy and Administrative Approaches. A. R. Dawoody (Ed.). Heidelberg: Springer.
•Roberts, N.C. 2015. “Encontrado O Espacp Do Problema.” Cidade Solidaria, No. 33, pp. 40-45.
•Roberts, N.C. and Longley, C. 2013. “Against All Odds: Bottom-Up Entrepreneurship and
Innovation in the Department of Defense.” S. P. Osborne & L. Brown (eds.). Handbook of Innovation in Public Sector Services. Eheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 176-192.
•Roberts, N.C. 2012. “Spanning Bleeding Boundaries Redoux.” Revised and reprinted in R.
Durant (ed.). Debating Public Administration and Public Policy.
•Roberts, N.C. 2011. “Beyond Smokestacks and Silos: Open-Source, Web-Enabled Coordination
in Organizations and Networks?” Public Administration Review, Sept.-Oct.: 677-693.
•Roberts, N.C. 2011. “Tracking and Disrupting Dark Networks: Challenges of Data Collection
and Analysis.” Information Systems Frontiers, 13(1): 5-19.
•Roberts, N.C. and Everton, S. 2011. “Strategies for Combating Dark Networks.” Journal of Social Structure 12(2):1-32.
•Chen, H., Denning, D., and Roberts, N.C. 2011. “Dark Web Forum Portal 2.5: Evolution and Expansion.” Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics.
•Roberts, N.C. 2010. “Web-based, Open-source Platforms for Collaboration.” In J. Svara and J.
Denhardt, eds. The Connected Community: Local Governments as Partners in Citizen Engagement and Community Building. Phoenix: Alliance for Innovation.
•Roberts, N.C. 2010. “Entrepreneurship in Peace Operations.” Journal of Civil Society, 6(01):1-21.
•Yulei Zhang, Shuo Zeng, Chun-Neng Huang, Li Fan, Ximing Yu, Yan Dang, Catherine Larson, Dorothy Denning, Nancy Roberts, Hsinchun Chen. 2010. “Developing a Dark Web Collection and Infrastructure for Computational and Social Sciences”. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics.
•Roberts, N.C. 2010. “Spanning 'Bleeding' Boundaries: Humanitarianism, NGOs, and the Civilian-Military Nexus in the Post-Cold War Era.” Public Administration Review, 70(2):212-222.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE:

•Co-Editor, Research in Public Management Series, Information Age Publisher (2001-2008)

•Associate Editor, Public Administration Review (2006-2009)

•Member of Editorial Boards: The American Review of Public  Administration; Public Management Review; International Public Management Journal

• International Public Management Review; Program Manager, Security Building in Post-Conflict Environments, Naval Postgraduate School (2001-2003)

• Division Chair, Public and Nonprofit Division, Academy of Management (1996-1997)

•Program Chair, Public and Nonprofit Division, Academy of Management, (1994-1995).