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Dr. Parker is a senior fellow for the Pandemic and Biosecurity Policy Programs at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service; associate dean for Global One Health, Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine

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Since 2006, Davis has worked extensively with the military in the homeland security enterprise and force generation. During a twenty-year Army career, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Davis served in a variety of command and staff positions in airborne, ranger, and Special Forces units. While an instructor at the US Army Infantry School, 1987-89, he was the principal author for the revision of Field Manual 7-10, The Rifle Company Manual. His military awards include the Bronze Star Medal, Combat Infantryman's Badge, and Master Parachutist Badge. From 1997-2000, Davis served as a training consultant in the US State Department's Train and Equip Program in Bosnia-Herzegovina. From 2000-2005, he worked in public education as a JROTC instructor in San Antonio, Texas. Davis earned two degrees from Texas A&M University: a bachelor's in history (1976) and a PhD in education (2003). At Troy State University, he earned a master's degree in international relations (1989). Author of numerous articles, Dr. Davis most recent book, The Phinehas Priesthood: Violent Vanguard of the Christian Identity Movement, was published by Praeger Publishers in 2010. He and his wife Mary live on the Corner Ranch in South Texas.

Tom is a Lecturer in International Relations for the University of Portsmouth based at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. He specializes in terrorism, political violence, and insurgencies with a focus on Southeast Asia but more broadly on jihadist (al Qaeda, ISIS, etc.) and political violence related to transnational Islam. He has fieldwork experience in Mindanao in the Philippines and Southern Thailand and is regularly asked by development, conflict and governmental organizations to contribute to research design, project planning and for advice. A former Visiting Lecturer at De La Salle University in Manila, Tom has worked across Asia in conflict environments for NGOs, charities and IGOs. Tom is best known on an international basis for his expertise on the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Southern Philippine province of Mindanao but has also become perhaps one of the UKs most recognised authorities on Filipino politics and Filipino foreign affairs.

Victor Asal is Director of the Center for Policy Research and a Professor in the Department of Political Science. He is also an editor of the American Political Science Association Journal of Political Science Education.

He received his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also, along with R. Karl Rethemeyer, the co-director of the Project on Violent Conflict. Dr. Asal is affiliated with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence.

Asal鈥檚 research focuses on the choice of violence by nonstate organizational actors as well as the causes of political discrimination by states against different groups such as sexual minorities, women and ethnic groups. In addition, Asal has done research on the impact of nuclear proliferation and on the pedagogy of simulations. Asal has been involved in research projects funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research.

Asal teaches courses on world and comparative politics, political violence and oppression, negotiation and research design. He has worked as a negotiation trainer in a variety of academic, governmental and military settings, and in conjunction with the ICONS Project, created simulations on varied topics. Asal also is a past director of the Center for Policy Research.

Dr. Markovic has developed a robust career in criminal justice, focusing on terrorism particularly focusing on suicide bombings, financing terrorism, and low-tech terrorist attacks such as vehicle-ramming attacks and mass shootings. Upon obtaining her doctoral degree, she became the Director of the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups (ISVG) at Sam Houston State University in Texas where she also served as Principal Investigator on a number of grants. She began her professional career in academia as an assistant professor at the University of New Haven, and eventually became Assistant Dean for the College of Criminal Justice. She has written widely on the topics of suicide terrorism including an op-ed for Forbes Magazine, and a recent publication (2019) in the journal on Women and Criminal Justice Terrorism special issue called 鈥淪uicide Squad: Boko Haram鈥檚 use of the female suicide bomber.鈥�  She is also a regular lecturer for the NATO Center of Excellence 鈥� Defense against Terrorism (COE-DAT) in Ankara, Turkey. She previously worked as a Private Investigator doing corporate due diligence Investigations at Search International.

Dr. Markovic鈥檚 research interests include terrorism, transnational crime, and comparative criminal justice.

Daniel Rothenberg is an expert in terrorism, violence and human rights.

Rothenberg has designed and managed human rights projects in Afghanistan, Iraq, Central Africa and throughout Latin America, including programs to train human rights NGOs, aid indigenous peoples in using international legal remedies, support gender justice, and collect and analyze thousands of first-person narratives from victims of atrocities.

He is a professor of practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies, co-director of the Center on the Future of War and a senior fellow at New America.

His books include With These Hands, Memory of Silence: The Guatemalan Truth Commission Report and Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy."

Dr. Jacob Shively, associate professor, teaches international relations.

Shively鈥檚 recent book project, 鈥淢ake America First Again,鈥� develops a new analytical framework called grand strategy analysis (GSA) and applies it to the first two years of the Trump administration.  GSA itself is designed for larger utility in cross-disciplinary, comparative foreign policy, and global policy analysis.  This work follows his prior monograph, "Analyzing Obama's Grand Strategy," which provided an overview of President Barack Obama's national security strategy and how it evolved.  Previously, in his doctoral dissertation, he analyzed former Presidents George W. Bush's and Jimmy Carter's grand strategies.

Shively has also presented at international and national conferences; published scholarly reviews, articles and encyclopedic chapters; conducted public talks; and delivered briefings to national security professionals.  His work also extends to emerging technology and national security.  His article on President Truman's "Point Four" technical assistance program as applied to Iran appeared in the journal "Diplomacy and Statecraft".  Other work in this vein includes papers on evolving cybersecurity policy and lethal drones.

With over a decade in university classrooms, Shively is an engaged and innovative teacher.  He has developed courses for traditional undergraduate and graduate majors as well as for online students.  Topics include Introductions to American Politics, Political Theory, International Politics, and Comparative Politics; American Foreign Policy; Causes of War; Cyber, Drones, and National Security; Grand Strategy; International Law; International Organizations; Religion and International Politics; and Study of Strategy (Honors).  Shively also advises the Model United Nations club.

Shively has written occasional news commentaries in addition to sitting for radio, newspaper, and television interviews.

In addition to several departmental, college, and university committees, Shively served in the university's faculty leadership development program (LEAD) and is a member of the faculty senate.

Afzal Ashraf has broad experience of International Relations and security issues, both as a practitioner and as an academic.

This includes service as a senior officer in the UK Armed Forces in operations ranging from famine relief in Africa to stabilisation operations in the South Atlantic, deterrence support in the Cold War and strategic aspects of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He has worked in support of diplomacy in the UK鈥檚 Foreign and Commonwealth Office and in information fusion, analysis and communication in some of UK鈥檚 security-related government departments.

He has been Head of Training Management for the Royal Air Force where he had responsibility for physical fitness, combat survival and through life learning.

He has run a private security consultancy covering areas such as cyber security and countering violent extremism and was a Consultant Fellow at the UK鈥檚 oldest Think Tank, the Royal United Services Institute. 

Alex  is an expert in politics and international relations. He frequently comments on current affairs (especially terrorism), has written for The Conversation, and runs a website where he publishes teaching material and musings on the news.  

With extensive expertise in Iranian policy in the past decade, Kaussler can comment on the Iranian Nuclear Deal, Middle Eastern Policy and terrorism. His most recent book is titled US Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East: The Realpolitik of Deceit, and he has been featured as an expert on CBS 麻豆传媒, NPR and The National Interest and others. He has also served as an expert and panelists at many conferences discussing Middle Eastern politics.
Kaussler has a doctorate and master's from St. Andrew’s University and a bachelor's from the University of Sussex.

Omi Hodwitz’s expertise sheds light on the nuances of terrorism and crime. Before joining University of Idaho, she worked as a researcher at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at University of Maryland. Hodwitz’s research interests include the role of non-combatants in the escalation of terrorist activity, and she has conducted fieldwork in conflict regions such as Pakistan and Turkey.
Additionally, she has worked extensively to compile the most comprehensive database of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirits (MMIWG2) in the United States and Canada.
Hodwitz also provided the spark for getting U of I involved in the Inside Out Prison Exchange Program. The worldwide program allows U of I students to experience education in our prison system and correctional residents a glimpse at their own potential. As of 2022, thanks in part to Hodwitz’s leadership, incarcerated individuals in Idaho now have greater access to higher education, using the U.S. Department of Education’s Second Chance Pell Experiment.
Available to speak on: 

Terrorism and counterterrorism (examining the impact of criminal justice responses and counterterrorism policy on terrorist offending and reoffending patterns)
Missing and murdered Indigenous people (examining contributing factors, policy responses and trends across time and space)
Prison education (fostering reformation and reducing recidivism through educational initiatives)

Dr. Prager is co-director of the . His research is focused on the policy and economics of disasters and has used computable general equilibrium analysis to estimate the macroeconomic impacts of environmental policy, natural disasters, and terrorism events. Prior to joining CSUDH, Prager was a postdoctoral research associate at USC Price School of Public Policy and Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), working with numerous Department of Homeland Security agencies on different policy analyses.