People
Faculty
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Krista E. Wiegand
Professor and Director of the Center for National Security and Foreign Affairs
Fields of Interest: International relations; territorial and maritime disputes; conflict management; Indo-Pacific; U.S. national security
865-974-0969
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Elis Vllasi
Senior Research Associate and Lecturer
Fields of Interest: Chinese/Russian influence operations; transnational ethnic links and their effects on democratization; and Western military intervention and nation-building
865-974-0931
Staff
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Sojeong Lee
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Fields of Interest: International relations; comparative politics; water and natural resources; conflict processes; foreign policy; Asian security; climate change and environmental politics
865-974-0931
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Jeanne Stevens
Research Program Manager
865-974-2572
Fellows and Affiliates
NSFA Experts
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Andrew Muhammad
Affiliate
Fields of Interest: Climate change and international trade; global food security, food choice and global nutrition; supply chains in developing countries; trade policy and commodity markets
865-974-3904
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Ben Horne
Affiliate
Fields of Interest: Disinformation campaigns; policymaking for internet governance and censorship
865-974-7916
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Brandon Prins
Senior Fellow
Fields of Interest: International relations; militarized conflict; maritime piracy; maritime crime
865-974-7047
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Catherine Luther
Fellow
Fields of Interest: Identity, media, and national security; disinformation and propaganda; influences of digital and social media
865-974-5118
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Deborah Penchoff
Fellow
Fields of Interest: High Performance Computing; Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Nuclear and Radio-Chemistry; and Rare Earth Elements
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Eric Keels
Non-Resident Fellow
Fields of Interest: Civil war; ethnic violence; election violence; international mediation; peace agreements; resource curse; and conflict management
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Gary Uzonyi
Fellow
Fields of Interest: International relations; genocide, politicide, and mass killing during civil war; peacekeeping
865-974-7050
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James Andes
Affiliate
Fields of Interest: National security research and policy
865-974-1899
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Jonathan Ring
Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Fields of Interest: International relations; human rights; civil society
865-974-8574
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Kelly Morrison
Affiliate
Fields of Interest: Human rights; democratic institutions; international law; international organizations
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Matthew Buehler
Senior Fellow
Fields of Interest: Comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa; democratization, authoritarianism; Islamist parties; public opinion; nuclear nonproliferation; migration
865-974-7045
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Maurice Stucke
Affiliate
Fields of Interest: Implications of AI on global security and well-being; antitrust and privacy policies for the digital economy
865-974-9816
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Suzie Allard
Fellow
Fields of Interest: Knowledge creation and disruption; science data; science misinformation
865-974-1369
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Tony Schmitz
Fellow
Fields of Interest: Advanced manufacturing and industry/defense needs
865-974-6141
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Wonjae Hwang
Affiliate
Fields of Interest: International and domestic consequences of globalization; political and economic conditions of foreign policy; politics in the UN; Northeast Asian politics; and Korean politics
865-974-7040
Emeritus Fellows and Affiliates
Candace White – Fellow
Allyn Milojevich – Fellow
