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Douglas Borer
Project Manager

Douglas A. Borer serves as the Defense Analysis Department’s Associate Chair for Instruction at the Naval Postgraduate School.  He is the project manager of the CORE Lab.  A native son on Montana, Doug received his BA in Psychology from Ripon College in 1985, an MA in Political Science from the University of Montana in 1988, and his PhD in Political Science from Boston University in 1993.  He has worked at a variety of academic postings, including the University of the South Pacific in Suva Fiji; the University of Western Australia in Perth; Virginia Tech in Blacksburg; the Universitii Kebangsaan in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, and the US Army War College in Carlisle Barracks Pennsylvania. His scholarship focuses on the politics of legitimacy in times of war.  He enjoys playing with sharks and flying kites.

Nancy Roberts
Co-Principal Investigator and Technical Lead

Nancy Roberts, Professor of Defense Analysis in the Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences, serves as co-principal investigator and technical lead for the CORE Lab.  She received a PhD from Stanford University, a MA and BA from the University of Illinois, and a Diplome Annuel, from the Cours de Civilization Francaise at the Sorbonne.  Her publications focus on public entrepreneurship and innovation, strategic management and planning, leadership, stakeholder collaboration, complex networks, dialogue and deliberation.  She is the co-author of Transforming Public Policy: Dynamics of Public Entrepreneurship and Innovation (1996) and editor of two books—The Transformative Power of Dialogue (2002) and Direct Citizen Participation (2007).  She currently is an associate editor of Public Administration Review, co-editor of a book series on Research on Public Management for Information Age Publishing and serves on the editorial boards of Public Management, The American Review of Public Administration, International Public Management Journal, and International Public Management Review. Her current teaching assignments include courses on Tracking and Disrupting Dark Networks, on Planning and Organizing in Complex Networks, and on Coping with Wicked Problems.

Sean Everton
Visiting Professor

Dr. Everton graduated with a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University. He specializes in social network analysis (SNA) and teaches two courses in the CORE Lab sequence: "Tracking and Disrupting Dark Networks" and "Advanced Social Network Analysis." In addition, Dr. Everton teaches courses and has published articles in political sociology (social movements and collective action), the sociology of religion and economic sociology.

Kristen Tsolis
Lecturer, CORE Lab Manager

Kristen Tsolis is a Lecturer of Defense Analysis and the CORE Lab Manager. Kristen teaches “Geospatial and Temporal Aspects of Dark Networks” and is the Department of Defense Analysis’ geospatial analyst and technologist. She has also taught “Computer Networking”, “Systems Analysis and Design”, and labs for “Computer Attack and Defense”. Kristen holds a Masters in International Policy Studies was a Visiting Scholar with the Computer Security Response Team (CERT/CC).

Faculty Associates

Deborah Gibbons
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Thomas Johnson
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Research Associates

LTC Brian Sweeney
Maj. David Acosta
Capt Philip A. Curwen
Major Jeremy Dobos
MAJ Benjamin Maitre
MAJ Tom Meer