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Todd Beltz

Associate Professor

Capt., U.S. Navy, Retired

Department

Wargaming Department

Areas of Expertise

  • Command and Control
  • Counterdrug Operations
  • Ethics
  • Leadership
  • Operational Warfare
  • Surface Warfare
  • Wargaming
(401) 856-6137
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Heath Jordan Brightman, Ed.D.

Professor

Capt., U.S. Navy Reserve

Department

College of Maritime Operational Warfare

Areas of Expertise

  • Conflict Resolution
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Ethics
  • HA/DR
  • Homeland Security
  • Information Operations
  • Leadership
  • Military Planning
  • Nuclear
(401) 856-5846
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Brad Carter, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department

College of Distance Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Civil-Military Relations
  • Ethics
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Yvonne Chiu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department

College of Distance Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Asia-Pacific
  • Civil-Military Relations
  • Ethics
  • Geopolitics
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Ross M. Coffey

Adjunct Professor

Lt. Col., U.S. Army, Retired

Department

College of Distance Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Africa
  • COIN
  • Ethics
  • Ground Warfare
  • International Relations
  • Joint Operations
  • JPME
  • Peace Operations
  • Security Cooperation
  • United Nations
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Timothy J. Demy, Ph.D.

Professor

Cmdr., U.S. Navy, Retired

Department

College of Leadership and Ethics

Areas of Expertise

  • Ethics
  • International Relations
  • Leadership
(401) 856-5645
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Kevin P. Eubanks, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department

Writing Center

Areas of Expertise

  • Ethics
  • Europe
  • JPME
(401) 856-5293
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Thomas J. Gibbons, Ed.D.

Associate Provost

Department

Office of the Provost

Areas of Expertise

  • Ethics
  • JPME
  • Leadership
(401) 856-5124
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Richard B. Grahlman

Professor

Cmdr., U.S. Navy, Retired

Department

College of Distance Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Air Warfare
  • Amphibious Warfare
  • Ethics
  • Foreign Policy
  • Joint Operations
  • JPME
  • Leadership
  • Nuclear
  • Operational Warfare
  • Search and Rescue
(831) 656-3540
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Bradley S. Hawksworth

Associate Professor

Cmdr., U.S. Navy, Retired

Department

College of Distance Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Ethics
  • Europe
  • Foreign Policy
  • International Relations
  • Leadership
  • Surface Warfare
(401) 856-5556
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Danielle M. Higson, J.D., LL.M.

Military Professor

Capt., U.S. Navy

Department

Joint Military Operations Department

Areas of Expertise

  • Cyber Warfare
  • Ethics
  • Information Operations
  • Intel
  • International Law
  • National Security
  • Operational Warfare
  • Rules of Engagement
  • UNCLOS
  • Women, Peace, and Security
(401) 856-5434
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Doyle K. Hodges, Ph.D.

Dean

Department

Dean of Academics

Areas of Expertise

  • Air Defense
  • Civil-Military Relations
  • Ethics
  • International Law
  • International Relations
  • Maritime Strategy
  • National Security
  • Rules of Engagement
  • Surface Warfare
  • UNCLOS
(401) 856-5301
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Brandon L. Jenkins

Military Professor

Cmdr., U.S. Navy

Department

College of Leadership and Ethics

Areas of Expertise

  • Ethics
  • Leadership
(401) 856-5648
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Margaret DeLuca Klein, Ed.D.

Professor

Rear Adm., U.S. Navy, Retired

Department

College of Leadership and Ethics

Areas of Expertise

  • Civil-Military Relations
  • Command and Control
  • Ethics
  • Leadership
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Jeffrey R. Macris, Ph.D.

Dean

Department

College of Leadership and Ethics

Areas of Expertise

  • Ethics
  • Leadership
  • Middle East
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Darren McClurg

Associate Professor

Cmdr., U.S. Navy, Retired

Department

College of Distance Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Amphibious Warfare
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Ethics
  • Joint Operations
  • Maritime History
  • Military Planning
  • National Security
  • Operational Warfare
  • Surface Warfare
(401) 856-5555
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Jeffrey Scott McPherson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Capt., U.S. Navy, Retired

Department

College of Distance Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Air Warfare
  • Civil-Military Relations
  • Ethics
  • Joint Operations
  • JPME
  • Leadership
  • Military Planning
(831) 656-3719
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Paul W. Nickell

Military Professor

Cmdr., U.S. Navy

Department

College of Leadership and Ethics

Areas of Expertise

  • Air Warfare
  • Ethics
  • Leadership
  • Submarine Warfare
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Matthew P. Nischwitz

Military Professor

Col., U.S. Army

Department

Strategy and Policy Department

Areas of Expertise

  • Command and Control
  • Ethics
  • Joint Operations
  • JPME
  • Leadership
  • Military Planning
(401) 856-5411
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Dayne E. Nix, Ph.D.

Professor

Cmdr., U.S. Navy, Retired

Department

College of Distance Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Ethics
  • India
  • Islamic Studies
  • Pakistan
(619) 207-8396
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Richard James Norton, Ph.D.

Professor

Cmdr., U.S. Navy, Retired

Department

National Security Affairs

Areas of Expertise

  • Africa
  • Ethics
  • International Relations
  • Maritime History
  • Piracy
  • Surface Warfare
  • WWII
(401) 856-5343
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James Pete, Ed.D.

Military Professor

Lt. Col., U.S. Army

Department

Joint Military Operations Department

Areas of Expertise

  • Ethics
  • Europe
  • Leadership
(401) 856-5440
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Jennifer A. Roberts

Instructor

Department

Writing Center

Areas of Expertise

  • China
  • Ethics
  • Japan
(401) 856-5294
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Tim Schultz, Ph.D.

Associate Dean

Col., U.S. Air Force, Retired

Department

Electives

Areas of Expertise

  • Aerospace
  • Air Warfare
  • Desert Storm
  • Ethics
  • Military Technology
  • Military Theory
  • UAVs/Drones
  • WWII
(401) 856-5481
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Pauline M. Shanks Kaurin, Ph.D.

Professor

Department

College of Leadership and Ethics

Areas of Expertise

  • Civil-Military Relations
  • Ethics
  • Irregular Warfare
  • Leadership
  • Vietnam War
(401) 856-5655
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Kadiatou Fatima Sidibe

Adjunct Professor

Capt., U.S. Navy, Retired

Department

College of Distance Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Africa
  • Economics
  • Ethics
  • Islamic Studies
  • Joint Operations
  • JPME
  • Leadership
  • National Security
  • NATO
  • Russia
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Scott M. Smith

Associate Professor

Capt., U.S. Navy, Retired

Department

College of Leadership and Ethics

Areas of Expertise

  • Civil-Military Relations
  • Counterdrug Operations
  • Ethics
  • Joint Operations
  • Leadership
  • Surface Warfare
(401) 856-5656
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Don Thieme, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department

Maritime Advanced Warfighting School

Areas of Expertise

  • Deterrence
  • Diplomacy
  • Ethics
  • Foreign Policy
  • Military Planning
  • Policy
(401) 856-6244
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David T. Vacchi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Lt. Col., U.S. Army, Retired

Department

Office of the Provost

Areas of Expertise

  • Artillery
  • Ethics
  • Intel
  • Iraq
  • JPME
  • Koreas
  • Leadership
  • WMD
(401) 856-8127
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