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Defense Analysis Department Chair
Dr. Kalev Sepp
Dr. Kalev I. Sepp is presently Chair of the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Counterterrorism (2007-9). Earlier, he was an analyst and strategist in Iraq and Afghanistan, and an expert member of the Baker-Hamilton Bipartisan Commission on Iraq, a.k.a. the Iraq Study Group. A former U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret) officer, he earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University, and his Combat Infantryman Badge in the Salvadoran Civil War. Dr. Sepp also graduated from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College with a Master's degree in Military Art and Science, and taught military and world history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. While assigned in Iraq, Dr. Sepp wrote "Best Practices in Counterinsurgency," later published in Military Review, and reprinted in Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese. He is co-author of Weapon of Choice: U.S. Army Special Operations in Afghanistan, and wrote the chapters "NATO Special Forces in Future Operations" and "Assessing Counterinsurgency" (with Maj. Gen. William Hix) in recently published books, along with other articles, essays, reviews and studies. Dr. Sepp was named one of "The Ten Most Influential Counterinsurgency Thinkers" in the United States by Foreign Policy magazine (2009). He has appeared on PBS Newshour, CNN, CNNi, BBC, Fox Business News, MSNBC, CBS, C-Span, NPR, and various national news programs. His sons – a Marine and an Army paratrooper – both served in Iraq.
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Leo Blanken
Associate Professor (2008)
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2006
Research Interests
International Relations Theory; Conflict Processes; National Security Policy
Douglas A. Borer
Associate Professor (2004)
Ph.D., Boston University, 1993
Research Interests
Strategy; Political Legitimacy; Irregular Warfare
Robert Burks
Assistant Professor (2017)
Air Force Institute of Technology, 2006
Daniel Cunningham
Lecturer (2010)
M.S., Middlebury Institute of International Studies, 2009
ABD, Naval Postgraduate School
Research Interests
Information Science; Visual Analytics; Social Networks Analysis
Dr. Zachary S. Davis
Research Professor
PhD, International Relations, University of Virginia, 1989
Research Interests
Examining the security implications of emerging technologies and WMD-E
Dorothy Denning
Emeritus Distinguished Professor (2002)
Ph.D, Purdue University
Research Interests
Conflict in Cyberspace; Cyber Security; Trust, Influence and Networks
Jennifer J. Duncan
Program and Research Manager (1992)
M.S., City University of New York, 1985
Sean Everton
Professor (2018)
Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Interests
Social Network Analysis; Political Sociology; Social Movements; Sociology of Religion
Michael Freeman
Associate Professor (2005)
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Interests
Terrorism; Counterterrorism; Foreign Policy; Political Theory
Scott Gartner
Visiting Professor (2015)
Brian Greenshields
Senior Lecturer (2009)
M.A., Naval Postgraduate School
Research Interests
Air power, strategy, irregular warfare
Heather Gregg
Associate Professor (2006)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003.
Research Interests
Religiously motivated violence; Countering ideologies; Non-kinetic means for fighting counterinsurgencies; long term goals of COIN
Steven (Steve) B. Hall
Research Professor
Ph.D., University of California Irvine, 1983
Research Interests
Social Identity Dynamics, Generative Social Science, Non-Combatant Behavior, Social Resiliency
George Lober
Emeritus (1998)
M.A., California State University at Fresno, 1986.
Ryan Maness
Assistant Professor (2017)
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Interests
Cyber Conflict and Strategy, International Relations, Quantitative Methods
Gordon H. McCormick
Professor (1992)
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1986
Research Interests
Terrorism; Sub-State Conflict; Irregular Warfare; Formal Modeling
Siamak Naficy
Senior Lecturer (2013)
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2010
Research Interests
Anthropology of Conflict; War & Society; Moral/Sacred Values; Media & War; Cognitive Science
Robert O'Connell
Visiting Professor (2004)
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1976
Wayne Porter
Senior Lecturer (2015)
Ph.D., Naval Postgraduate School, 2014
Nancy C. Roberts
Professor Emeritus (1986)
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1983
Research Interests
Complex Networks; Problem Solving; Social Network Analysis; Strategic Management; Organization Theory; "Wicked Problems"; Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Glenn Robinson
Associate Professor (1991)
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1992
Research Interests
Political Violence; Islamic Fundamentalism; Political Economy; Middle East
Hy Rothstein
Senior Lecturer (2002)
Ph.D., Tufts University, 2003
Research Interests
Security Strategy; Irregular Warfare; Military Deception; Psychological Warfare
Kalev (Gunner) Sepp
Chair of the Defense Analysis Department
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992
Research Interests
National Security Policy; National Strategy; National Military Strategy; Special Operations; Irregular Warfare; Counter-Terrorism; Counter-Insurgency
Anna Simons
Professor (1998)
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992
Research Interests
Anthropology of Conflict; Military Culture; Methods of Social Control; Africa; Military Advising (advisory assessment and selection)
Bradley J. Strawser
Associate Professor (2012)
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2012
Research Interests
Philosophy and military ethics
Kristen Tsolis
Lecturer (1999)
M.S., Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1999
Research Interests
Geospatial Analysis; Computer Security
Tristan Volpe
Assistant Professor (2017)
Ph.D., George Washington
Research Interests
Nuclear Proliferation and Counter-Proliferation, Politics of Emerging Technology, Regional Security Strategy
Camber Warren
Associate Professor (2012)
Ph.D., Duke University, 2008
Matt Zefferman
Assistant Professor (2019)
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2013
Research Interests
Cooperation and conflict, cultural evolution, institutions for warfare