Faculty - Department of Defense Analysis
Defense Analysis Department Chair, Dr. Michael E. Freeman

Email: mefreema@nps.edu
Michael Freeman is a professor in the Department of Defense Analysis. He is the author of Freedom or Security: The Consequences for Democracies Using Emergency Powers to Fight Terror (Praeger, 2003), the editor of Financing Terrorism: Case Studies (Ashgate 2012), the author of The Global Spread of Salafism (University of Nebraska, 2021), as well as the author of several journal articles and book chapters on terrorism, emergency powers, and terrorist financing. He is also the designer of nine online, “serious” games on terrorism and counterterrorism. In 2014, he was the recipient of NPS’s Hamming Award in recognition of his excellence in teaching and engagement with students. While at NPS, he was Chair of the Faculty Council (2017), Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs (2018-2021), and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (2021-2022).
Faculty
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: 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: Social Networks, Dark Networks, Terrorism, Irregular Warfare
Ph.D., Sociology, Stanford University, 2007
sfeverto@nps.edu
831-656-2709
Expertise: Terrorism, Political Violence, International Relations
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 2001
mefreema@nps.edu
831-656-3731
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
Expertise: CORE Lab
M.A. Science, Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
seth.gray@nps.edu
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: Defense Analysis, DoD IO Center for Research, Global ECCO Program
M.A., Public Policy, Panetta Institute, 2010
rdlorent@nps.edu
Expertise: Special Operations, CORE Lab
M.A. Science, Naval Postgradaute School
chad.machiela@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
Ph.D., School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, 1987
gmccormick@nps.edu
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: 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: 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: 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: Defense Analysis, 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