Career police officer for 30 years, Instructor in the Safe Communities Institute (SCI) at the Sol Price School of Public Policy, Univ. of Southern California, Senior El Centro Fellow, Small Wars Journal.
Professor of Practice, Retired US Army officer with multiple combat deployments, host of the podcasts Revolution in Military Affairs, author of Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare.
Director, Center on National Security at Fordham Law, Fellow at New America Future Security, author of multiple books including Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump, Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State.
Günes Murat Tezcür
Director, School of Politics and Global Studies, author/editor of The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics (Oxford 2022) and Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities (I.B. Tauris, 2021).
Jeremy Hodge
Senior Investigator, Zomia Center working on extremism in Syria and Iraq, contributor to Proxy War Today: Case Studies of Conflict in the Middle East (Oxford 2022), his articles appear in Foreign Affairs, The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Al Jazeera.
Karima E. Bennoune
Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights (2015 to 2021), author of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here (W.W. Norton 2013), with related TED talk viewed by 1.3 million.
Nathan Thrall
Journalist and political analyst, former Director of the Arab Israeli Project at the International Crisis Group, his book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (Metropolitan Books) was named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, The Economist, and Time.
Patricia Evangelista
Trauma journalist, former investigative reporter at Rappler in the Philippines, her book Some People Need Killing (Random House) was named one of the 10 best of 2023 by the New York Times, former ASU Future Security Fellow at New America.
Victor Blue
2023-24 ASU Future Security Fellow, photojournalist and writer focusing on the legacy of armed conflict, his work appears in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Harper’s Magazine, earned seven Pictures of the Year International awards, five NPPA Best of Photojournalism awards, and recognition from the Overseas Press Club.
Sarah Esther Maslin
2023-24 ASU Future Security Fellow, journalist focusing on Latin America, former Brazil correspondent for The Economist, her articles appear in multiple publications including the Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, and the Atlantic.