Faculty

See below for a reference of NESA Center faculty and their areas of expertise. Click the faculty’s name to read more about our expert faculty.

Faculty:		Areas of Expertise:
	Dr. Hassan Abbas Distinguished Professor of International Relations	Security, Religion & Politics in South Asia & Middle East, Rule of Law & Policing in Developing States, Building Narratives for Preventing & Countering & Violent Extremism
	Dr. Gawdat Bahgat Professor of National Security Affairs	Energy security, Counter-terrorism, Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, International political economy, Middle East, Caspian Sea/Central Asia, U.S. foreign policy
	Charles B. Marks (Chuck) SANDU Strategic Implementation Office (SIO) Provost
	Daniel E. Curfiss Associate Professor	National Security Policy and Strategy, Stability and Reconstruction Operations, Foreign relations and security issues, Counter-Insurgency Operations
	David Des Roches Associate Professor	Arabian Peninsula and Mediterranean Littoral, Unconventional Warfare, Stabilization and Reconstruction, Homeland Defense
	John H. Gill (Jack) Associate Professor	Intelligence, Military History, India and Pakistan, Afghanistan and South Asia
	Professor Ali Ahmad Jalali Distinguished Professor	Counter-Insurgency and Counter-Terrorism Operations, Post-Conflict Stabilization and Reconstruction, Counter-Narcotics Operations
	Jennifer Jefferis Adjunct Professor
	Lieutenant Colonel Bre Washburn USA War College Fellow
	Anne Moisan Associate Professor	National Security Policy, Peacekeeping and Reconciliation, Women’s Role in Security, European and Middle Eastern Affairs
	Jeffrey S. Payne Assistant Professor	Maritime Domain, China,
	Dr. Richard L. Russell Professor of National Security Affairs	American National Security Policy, Strategy and Military Operations, Civil-Military Relations, Nuclear Weapons Proliferation, Intelligence
	Michael Sharnoff Associate Professor	The history and politics of Egypt and the Levant, The Arab-Israeli conflict, Radical Islamist movements
	COL William M. Stephens (Bill) Primary Advisor for the U.S. Military Training Mission to the Saudi Armed Forces
	Brianne Todd Assistant Professor	Transnational Threats, Central Asian Regional Security
	Richard Wiersema Professor	Professional Military Education, Senior Leader Development, Strategy and Planning, Decision Making