Teaching Faculty

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Leo Blanken
Associate Professor
 Expertise: Strategic Competition, Innovation, Defense Economics
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Davis, 2006
ljblanke@nps.edu
Doug Borer
Associate Professor
 Expertise: Comparative Strategy. Asymmetric Warfare. Irregular Warfare. Legitimacy in War
Ph.D., Political Science, Boston University, 1993
daborer@nps.edu
831-656-2117
Robert Burks
Associate Professor
 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
Sean Everton
Professor
 Expertise: Social Networks, Dark Networks, Terrorism, Irregular Warfare
Ph.D., Sociology, Stanford University, 2007
sfeverto@nps.edu
‭831-656-2709‬
Michael Freeman
Professor
 Expertise: Terrorism, Political Violence, International Relations
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 2001
mefreema@nps.edu
831-656-3731
Dr. Scott Gartner
Professor of Defense Analysis (2021-Current)
Provost and Chief Academic Officer (2021 to 2024)
 Expertise: Defense Analysis, National Security Policy, Deterrence, Irregular Warfare
Ph.D., Political Science, The University of Michigan, 1992
scott.gartner@nps.edu
831-656-3754
Seth Gray
Faculty Associate - Research
 Expertise: Defense Analysis
seth.gray@nps.edu
Brian Greenshields
Associate Chair for Operations
 Expertise: Irregular Warfare and Airpower; Special Operations
bhgreens@nps.edu
Shannon Houck
Assistant Professor
 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
Thomas Jamison
Assistant Professor
 Expertise: International History, Naval Warfare, Irregular Warfare, China, U.S. Foreign Relations
Ph.D., International History, Harvard University, 2020
Thomas.jamison@nps.edu
Ryan Maness
Associate Professor.
 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

Professor
 Ph.D., School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, 1987
gmccormick@nps.edu
Ian Rice
Senior Lecturer
 Expertise: Helping Defense Analysis students achieve their academic, career, and life goals.
ian.rice@nps.edu
Bradley "BJ" Strawser
Associate Professor of Philosophy
 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
Kristen Tsolis
Lecturer
 M.A. International Policy Studies, Middlebury Institute, 1999
ktsolis@nps.edu
John Tullius
Faculty Associate (Instruction)
 Expertise: Defense Analysis, Intelligence, Terrorism
Ph.D., University of Oregon Political Science, 1997
jdtulliu@nps.edu
831-346-9022

Assistant Professor
 Expertise: Technology and International Security, Coercion and Competition, Security Studies, IR Theory
Ph.D., Political Science, George Washington University, 2015
tvolpe1@nps.edu

Assistant Professor
 Expertise: Qualitative Methods, International Security, Conflict Processes, Ethnic Politics, Statistical Methods, and Computational Modeling
Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University, 2008
tcwarren@nps.edu
Lieutenant General (Retired) Eric Wendt
Professor of Practice
 Expertise: Command and Leadership
M.A. National Security Affairs (Special Operations Curriculum), ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, 1995; Fellow, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, 2005; Distinguished Alumnus, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, 2018
Eric.wendt@nps.edu
Frank Wyer
Faculty Associate
 Expertise: Defense Analysis
frank.wyer@nps.edu