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Peter L. Bergen, Center Co-Director in Kabul, Afghanistan.
LaDawn Haglund and Rimjhim Aggarwal researching social and economic rights in a Delhi settlement.
David Kilcullen, ASU Future of War Fellow working on counterinsurgency issues at the Tarapaca airstrip, Colombia.
Peter Singer, Strategist and Senior Fellow at New America discusses his book Ghost Fleet at the US Navy Current Strategy Forum.
Daniel Rothenberg training local NGO workers on human rights documentation and analysis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Brad Allenby, Center Affiliated Faculty speaking on civilizational conflict, Chautauqua Institute.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, New America President and CEO
Douglas Ollivant, ASU Future of War Fellow advising Iraqi security forces on border between Karbala and Anbar provinces.
Yasmin Saikia, Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies and Center Affiliated Faculty speaking in Baghdad at a conference sponsored by the Iraqi Ministry of Culture.

People

Co-Directors

Peter L. Bergen

Co-Director, Center on the Future of War, Professor of Practice, School of Politics and Global Studies, Vice President, New America

Daniel Rothenberg

Co-Director, Center on the Future of War, Professor of Practice, School of Politics and Global Studies

Center Faculty

ML Cavanaugh

Professor of Practice, Center on the Future of War, School of Politics and Global Studies

Anand Gopal

Assistant Research Professor, Center on the Future of War, School of Politics and Global Studies

Sarah Holewinski

Professor of Practice, Center on the Future of War, School of Politics and Global Studies

David Kilcullen

Professor of Practice, School of Politics and Global Studies

Jeffrey Kubiak

Co-Director MA in Global Security, Professor of Practice, School of Politics and Global Studies

Ajit Maan

Professor of Practice, Center on the Future of War, School of Politics and Global Studies

Candace Rondeaux

Professor of Practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies

Lt. Gen. (ret.) Robert Schmidle

Professor of Practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies, University Advisor on Cyber Capabilities and Conflict Studies

Peter Singer

Professor of Practice, School of Politics and Global Studies

Postdoctoral Scholars, Researchers and Fellows

Sean McCafferty

Research Fellow, Center on the Future of War, PhD Student, School for the Future of Innovation in Society

Robert Sickler

MAJ Bobby Sickler is an active duty Army officer pursuing a PhD in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society.

ASU Affiliated Faculty
New America Team

Ken Abbott	Jack E. Brown Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; Professor of Global Studies, School of Politics and Global Studies; Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; Faculty Co-Director, Center for Law and Global Affairs
Rimjhim Aggarwal	Associate Professor and Chair of the Undergraduate Standards Committee, School of Sustainability; Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Souad Ali	Head of Classics and Middle East Studies; Director of Arabic Studies; Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Middle East/Islamic Studies, School of International Letters and Cultures
Brad Allenby	President's Professor and Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment; Founding Director, Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management; Founding Chair, Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security; Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Luc Anselin	Walter Isard Chair, Director, and Regents' Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning; Director at the GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation; Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Panagiotis Artemiadis	Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Director, Human-Oriented Robotics and Control Lab, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
George Basile	Professor of Practice, School of Sustainability; Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Stephen Batalden	Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies; Director, Melikian Center on Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies
Nadya Bliss	Director, Global Security Initiative; Professor of Practice, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering; Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Daniel Bodansky	Foundation Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; Faculty Co-Director, Center for Law and Global Affairs
Benjamin Broome	Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
Lenka Bustikova	Assistant Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
Linell Cady	Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict; Professor of Religious Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
John Carlson	Associate Professor, Religious Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies; Associate Director, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Robert Clinton	Foundation Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law; Chief Justice, Winnebago Supreme Court; Associate Justice, Colorado River Indian Tribes Court of Appeals; Associate Justice, Hualapai Tribal Court of Appeals; Associate Justice, Hopi Court of Appeals; Judge pro tem, San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians
Steve Corman	Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication; Director, Center for Strategic Communication
Werner Dahm	Foundation Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy; Founding Director and Chief Scientist of the Security and Defense Systems Initiative; Chief Technical Officer, ASURE
Richard Dale	Executive Director, Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security; Professor of Practice, College of Public Programs
Hasan Davulcu	Associate Professor, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering; Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Peter de Marneffe	Professor of Philosophy, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Scott Decker	Foundation Professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Kevin Desouza	Associate Dean for Research, College of Service and Community Solutions; Foundation Professor, School of Public Affairs
Gary Dirks	Director, LightWorks in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; Julie A. Wrigley Chair Practice of Sustainable Energy Systems and Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, School of Sustainability
Roxanne Doty	Associate Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
Hallie Eakin	Associate Professor, School of Sustainability; Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Julie Murphy Erfani	Associate Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Director, Masters Program in Social Justice and Human Rights, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Ed Finn	Founding Director, Center for Science and the Imagination, Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Media and Engineering and Department of English
Lt. Gen. (ret.) Benjamin C. Freakley	Professor of Practice of Leadership, Senior Advisor, McCain Institute for International Leadership; Special Advisor to President Michael Crow
Peter French	Emeritus Lincoln Professor of Ethics, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Abdullahi Gallab	Associate Professor, African and African American Studies, School of Social Transformation; Associate Professor of Religious Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Joel Garreau	Professor of Culture, Values and Emerging Technologies, ASU Office of the President; Founding Co-Director, “The Weaponized Narrative Initiative”; Midwife, The ASU/DARPA "Polyplexus" Partnership; Founding Director, “The Prevail Project: Wise Governance for Challenging Futures”
David Gartner	Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law; Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; Faculty Co-Director, Center for Law and Global Affairs
David Guston	Dean, School for the Future of Innovation in Society; Principal Investigator and Director, Center for Nanotechnology in Society; Co-Director, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes; Co-Leader, Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation; Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
LaDawn Haglund	Associate Professor, Justice and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation; Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Chad Haines	Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies; Assistant Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
Michael Hechter	Foundation Professor of Political Science, School of Politics and Global Studies; Core Faculty, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity; Graduate Faculty, Department of History, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Anne Herbert	Director, Undergraduate Education, Senior Lecturer in Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Magda Hinojosa	Associate Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
Kiril Hristovski	Associate Professor, Polytechnic School, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering; Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; Environmental Engineering Graduate Faculty, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment; International Collaboration Liaison, Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security, College of Public Programs
Ben Hurlburt	Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences
Okechukwu Iheduru	Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
Mark Jacobs	Vice Provost; Dean, Barrett Honors College; Professor, School of Life Sciences
Stanlie James	Vice Provost for Inclusion and Community Engagement; Professor, African and African American Studies, School of Social Transformation
George Justice	Dean of Humanities, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Associate Vice President for Humanities and Arts, Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development
Ethan Kapstein	Arizona Centennial Professor of International Affairs, School of Public Affairs; Senior Director for Research and Decision Analysis, McCain Institute for International Leadership
Charles Katz	Watts Family Director, Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety; Associate Professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Sally Kitch	Regents' Professor of Women and Gender Studies, School of Social Transformation, Director, Institute for Humanities Research; Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute for Sustainability
Miki Kittilson	Associate Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
Orde Kittrie	Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Jonathan Koppell	Dean, College of Public Programs; Lattie and Elva Coor Presidential Chair, School of Public Affairs; Professor of Public Affairs; Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Peter Lehman	Professor, Department of English; Director, Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture
Erik Luna	Foundation Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law John Carlson, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies; Associate Director, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Ilana Luna	Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies, School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies
Stephen Mackinnon	Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Gary Marchant	Regents' Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law; Faculty Director, Center for Law, Science and Innovation; Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law and Ethics; Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Flavio Marsiglia	Regents' Professor, Distinguished Foundation Professor of Cultural Diversity and Health, School of Social Work; Director, Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center
Martin Matusik	Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies; Director, Center for Critical Inquiry and Cultural Studies
Kristin Mayes	Professor of Practice, School for the Future of Innovation in Scoeity; Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Rob Melnick	Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer, and Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; Presidential Professor of Practice, School of Sustainabili
Victor Peskin	Associate Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
Danny Peterson	Professor of Practice, Department of Technology Management
Luis Plascencia	Assistant Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
George Poste	Regents’ Professor and Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation, School of Life Sciences; Chief Scientist, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative
Mark Ramirez	Associate Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
Anshuman Razdan	Professor, Department of Engineering, College of Technology and Innovation; Director, Advanced Technology Innovation Collaboratory; Director, Image and 3D Data Exploitation and Analysis Lab
Jason Roberts	Lincoln Chair in Ethics; Director, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics; Franca Oreffice Dean's Distinguished Professor in the Life Sciences; Lincoln Associate Professor of Ethics in Biotechnology and Medicine; Director, Bioethics, Policy, and Law Program
Heather Roff	Cybersecurity Fellow, New America; Research Scientist, Global Security Initiative, ASU.
Troy Rule	Associate Professor, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; Faculty Director, Program on Law and Sustainability
James Rush	Associate Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Jim Russell	Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; Research Scientist, Global Security Initiative; Core Faculty, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Scott Ruston	Assistant Research Professor, Hugh Downs School of Communication
Yasmin Saikia	Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Hava Samuelson	Director, Jewish Studies Program; Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Adriana Sanford	Clinical Associate Professor of Management, W.P. Carey School of Business; World Economic Forum Advisory Committee Member for the Partnering Against Corruption Initiative
Daniel Sarewitz	Professor of Science and Society, School of Life Sciences; Advisory Board Member, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes; Co-Director, Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes; Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Erin Scharff	Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Thomas Schildgen	Professor, Polytechnic School, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Juliane Schober	Director, Center for Asian Research; Professor of Religious Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Sarah Shair-Rosenfield	Assistant Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
Paulo Shakarian	Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering; Director, Cyber-Socio Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Shade Shutters	Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; Research Scientist, Global Security Initiative; Core Faculty, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Shade Shutters	Research Scientist, Global Security Initiative, Core Faculty, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity; Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Sheldon Simon	Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
David Siroky	Assistant Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies, Core Faculty, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Ali Souad	Head of Classics and Middle East Studies, Director of Arabic Studies, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Middle East/Islamic Studies, School of International Letters and Cultures
Cameron Thies	Professor and Director, School of Politics and Global Studies
George Thomas	Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
Mark Von Hagen	Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies; Director, Office of Veteran and Military Academic Engagement
Stephen Walker	Professor Emeritus, School of Politics and Global Studies
Carolyn Warner	Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
Clint Williamson	Senior Director for Law and National Security, McCain Institute for International Leadership; Distinguished Professor of Practice, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Jamie Winterton	Director, Strategic Research Initiatives, Global Security Initiative
Reed Wood	Associate Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
Thorin Wright	Assistant Professor, School of Politics and Global Studie

Hassan Abbas	Carnegie Fellow at New America; professor, National Defense University, former Distinguished Quaid-i-Azam Professor at Columbia University.
Matthiew Aikins	Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at New America, freelance journalist published inHarper’s, The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and other leading publications; recipient of the Livingston Award for International Reporting, the George Polk award and other honors.
Jason Amerine	Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) U.S. Army, helped establish local opposition force in the Pashtun tribal belt of southern Afghanistan as well as hostage policy, former assistant professor of international relations at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Rosa Brooks	ASU Future of War Senior Fellow; Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Georgetown University Law Center; former Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Consultant, Human Rights Watch; Board Member, Amnesty International USA.
Sharon Burke	Senior Advisor, International Security Program; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy, U.S. Department of Defense; former Vice President and Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security
Emily Cole Hunt	Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at New America; former associate Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; former Soref Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Jennifer Daskal	Associate Professor, American University Washington College of Law; former Senior Counterterrorism Counsel, Human Rights Watch.
Jeffrey W. Eggers	Senior Fellow, New America; former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Special Assistant to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mike Mullen; former Navy SEAL.
Chris Fussell	Senior Fellow, International Security Program, New America; Principal, McChrystal Group; former Aide-de-Camp to Gen. (ret.) Stanley A. McChrystal; former Navy SEAL; recipient of the Pat Tillman Award.
Christopher Fussell	Senior Fellow; Principal, the McChrystal Group; former officer in the U.S. Navy SEAL Teams
Mark Hagerott	Cybersecurity Fellow, New America; Chancellor, North Dakota University System; Captain (ret.) U.S. Navy; former Deputy Director and Distinguished Professor of Cyber Operations and Policy at the Center for Cyber Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Shane Harris	Fellow, International Security Program, New America; former ASU Future of War Fellow; senior correspondent, Wall Street Journal; winner of the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense, finalist for the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists.
Luke Hartig	Fellow, International Security Program, New America; Executive Director, National Journal's Network Science Initiative former Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council; former Deputy Director for Counterterrorism Operations, Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Drew Herrick	Ph.D. candidate, George Washington University; former National Cybersecurity Fellow, New America, former researcher, RAND Corporation.
Sarah Holewinski	Senior Fellow, Center for New American Security; former Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations; former Executive Director, Center for Civilians in Conflict.
Heather Hurlburt	Director, New Models of Policy Change; former Director, National Security Network; former Senior Staff, White House
Azmat Khan	ASU Future of War Fellow, New America; investigative journalist for Frontline, Al Jazeera, and BuzzFeed’s Investigative Unit; winner of a Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting on South Asia, Deadline Club Award for Independent Digital Reporting.
Ioannis Koskina	Senior Fellow, International Security Program; CEO, Hoplite Group; former officer, U.S. Air Force Special Operations
Michael Lind	co-founder of New America; former editor/staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The National Interest
Tara Maller	Research Fellow, International Security Program, New America; Senior Policy Advisor, Counter Extremism Project; Fellow, Truman National Security Project.
Tim Maurer	Director, Global Cybersecurity Norms and Resilience Project and Head of Research, Cybersecurity Initiative
Souad Mekhennet	Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow, New America; Correspondent, The Washington Post.
Doug Ollivant	ASU Future of War Fellow; former Director, National Security Council; former counterinsurgency advisor in Afghanistan and Iraq
Nadia Oweidat	Smith Richardson Fellow, New America; former Research Associate, RAND Corporation.
Matthew Pinsker	Former ASU Future of War Fellow; Professor, History Department, Dickinson College.
Tom Ricks	Senior Advisor; author and former Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter
Phil Sands	Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow, New America; Correspondent, The National.
Scott Silverstone	ASU Future of War Fellow, New America; Professor of International Relations and Director, International Relations program, United States Military Academy at West Point
Anne-Marie Slaughter	President and CEO; former Dean, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; former head of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department
David Sterman	Senior Program Associate, New America.
Ian Wallace	Senior Fellow, New America and Former U.K. Minister of Defense Senior Official
Michael Waltz	Senior National Security Fellow; president, Metis Solutions; former officer, U.S. Army Special Forces
Dan Ward	Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) U.S. Air Force; author of F.I.R.E.: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation and The Simplicity Cycle: A Field Guide To Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse.
Dan Ward	Non-Resident Fellow, New America
David Wood	ASU Future of War Fellow; Pulitzer prize winning correspondent, The Huffington Post; former conscientious objector
Paul Wood	Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow, New America; Correspondent, BBC; winner of two Emmys, a Peabody, and two US Radio and TV Correspondents’ Association David Bloom award for foreign reporting and named UK Foreign Press Association’s journalist of the year.