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null NSA Department Welcomes New Professors

By Catherine L. Grant
July 25, 2016

The NSA Department is pleased to welcome aboard Assistant Professors Emily Meierding and Afshon Ostovar.

Prior to joining us at NPS, Dr. Meierding was at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Her research and teaching focus on international and intra-state conflict and cooperation over energy resources and climate change. She is currently completing a manuscript for a book challenging the popular belief that oil is a significant cause of international conflict titled The Oil Wars Myth. Her work has appeared in Security Studies and the International Studies Review. Dr. Meierding received her PhD (2010) in political science from the University of Chicago. Click here for a short bio.

Dr. Ostovar comes to NPS after a decade of experience working on Department of Defense and federally-funded projects related to national security and the Middle East and is most recently from the Center for Strategic Studies at CNA. His PhD (history) is from the University of Michigan. The focus of his research is conflict and security issues in the Middle East, specializing in Iran and the Persian Gulf. He is the author of the recently published Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (Oxford University Press, 2016), which examines the rise of Iran’s most powerful armed force—the IRGC—and its role in power politics, regional conflicts, and political violence. Dr. Ostovar is a contributor to War on the Rocks and Lawfare, and his commentary regularly appears in Politico, Foreign Policy, Vox, The Guardian, and other popular media. Click here for a short bio.

The NPS Intranet recently featured an article on Professors Meierding and Ostovar as well as another new NSA faculty member, Professor Chris Darnton. Click here to read it.

Pictured below, left to right, are Professors Darnton, Meierding, and Ostovar.


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