- Heather S. Gregg
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Assistant Professor
Mail Code: DA
Department of Defense Analysis
Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences
Monterey, CA 93943
Phone: 831-656-3689
Email: hsgregg (at) nps.edu
- EDUCATION:
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PhD - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
Political Science, International Relations and Security Studies
MA - Harvard Divinity School, 1998
Theological Studies, Islam
BA - University of California at Santa Cruz, 1993
Cultural Anthropology
NPS EXPERIENCE:
- Assistant professor, Department of Defense Analysis
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
- 2003-2006, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica Office. Associate Political Scientist
TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Religion
- Religious violence
- Political ideologies
- Counterinsurgency tactics and strategy
- Foreign Internal Defense
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Religiously motivated violence
- Countering Al Qaeda’s ideology
- Identities and violence
- COIN and FID
- Ending insurgencies
AWARDS:
- Energy, Technology and International Affairs Grant (MIT), Dissertation Completion Grant Summer 2003
- MacArthur Grant for Security Studies Research Topic: “Government Reactions to Contested Sacred Space: Jerusalem and Ayodhya,” Summer 2002
- Mellon Foundation Grant on International Migration Research Topic: “The Role of Ethnic Lobbies in Securing Aid to the Homeland,” Summer 2001
- MacArthur Grant for Security Studies Research Topic: “Hypotheses on Religion and War,” Summer 2000
- Scholarship Recipient, Harvard Divinity School Academic years 1996-1997 and 1997-1998
BOARDS/MEMBERSHIPS:
- Council on Foreign Relations, Term Member
- Women in International Security
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- “U.S. Relations with Islamic Organizations in the Middle East,” Middle East Handbook, (Routledge, 2009)
- “Fighting Cosmic Warriors: Lessons from the First Seven Years of the Global War on Terror,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, (Winter 2009)
- After Saddam: Pre-War Planning and the Occupation of Iraq, (Santa Monica, RAND, 2008)
- Beyond Al Qaeda, Part I and II, Angel Rabasa, Peter Chalk, Kim Cragin, Sara A. Daly, Heather S. Gregg, Theodore W. Karasik, Kevin A. O'Brien, William Rosenau (Santa Monica: RAND, 2006)
- Exploring Religious Conflict, Gregory F. Treverton, Heather S. Gregg, Daniel Gibran, Charles Yost (Santa Monica: RAND, 2005)
KEYWORDS/TECHNOLOGIES:
- Keywords: Religious Violence Al Qaeda Global War on Terror Political ideologies FID COIN
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