NSFA Faculty, Experts, and Staff
NSFA Faculty, Experts, and Staff
NSFA Faculty
Krista Wiegand
Professor and Director of the Center for National Security and Foreign Affairs
Specialties: International relations; territorial and maritime disputes; conflict management; Indo-Pacific; U.S. national security
Elis Vllasi
Senior Research Associate and Lecturer
Specialties: Chinese/Russian influence operations; transnational ethnic links and their effects on democratization; and Western military intervention and nation-building
NSFA Experts
Suzie Allard
Fellow
Specialties: Knowledge creation and disruption; science data; science misinformation
Matthew Buehler
Senior Fellow
Specialties: Comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa; democratization, authoritarianism; Islamist parties; public opinion; nuclear nonproliferation; migration
Ben Horne
Affiliate
Specialties: Disinformation campaigns; policymaking for internet governance and censorship
Wonjae Hwang
Affiliate
Specialties: International and domestic consequences of globalization; political and economic conditions of foreign policy; politics in the UN; Northeast Asian politics; and Korean politics
Eric Keels
Non-Resident Fellow
Specialties: Civil war; ethnic violence; election violence; international mediation; peace agreements; resource curse; and conflict management
Catherine Luther
Fellow
Specialties: Identity, media, and national security; disinformation and propaganda; influences of digital and social media
Kelly Morrison
Affiliate
Specialties: Human rights; democratic institutions; international law; international organizations
Andrew Muhammad
Affiliate
Specialties: Climate change and international trade; global food security, food choice and global nutrition; supply chains in developing countries; trade policy and commodity markets
Deborah Penchoff
Fellow
Specialties: High Performance Computing; Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Nuclear and Radio-Chemistry; and Rare Earth Elements
Brandon Prins
Senior Fellow
Specialties: International relations; militarized conflict; maritime piracy; maritime crime
Jonathan Ring
Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Specialties: International relations; human rights; civil society
Tony Schmitz
Fellow
Specialties: Advanced manufacturing and industry/defense needs
Maurice Stucke
Affiliate
Specialties: Implications of AI on global security and well-being; antitrust and privacy policies for the digital economy
Gary Uzonyi
Fellow
Specialties: International relations; genocide, politicide, and mass killing during civil war; peacekeeping
Emeritus NSFA Experts
- Candace White – Fellow
- Allyn Milojevich – Fellow
NSFA Staff
Sojeong Lee
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Specialties: International relations; comparative politics; water and natural resources; conflict processes; foreign policy; Asian security; climate change and environmental politics