Status
Lecturer
Contact
chooper@nps.edu
Research Interests
Pacific basin; Littoral engagement and assault; Naval force structure; Emergent threats; Biological weaponry; Nonproliferation; Energy security; Critical infrastructure; Public health and security; Strategic communication; and Civil-military relations. |
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Biography
Craig Hooper began working at the Naval Postgraduate School in 2006 and currently teaches core courses in the NSA Department’s Homeland Security and Defense Curriculum. He served on the Red Team Working Group for the Chief of Naval Operations’ Maritime Strategy Development Team at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and is currently focusing upon the Pacific Basin and next-generation Amphibious Engagement and Assault doctrine.
After graduating from Grinnell College, in Grinnell Iowa, Dr. Hooper received his doctorate in Immunology and Infectious Diseases in 2005 from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He subsequently served as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Scientist-in-Residence at the Monterey Institute of International Studies’ Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
His research publications include “Don’t Hate San Francisco! Engage, Don’t Estrange” in Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute (October 2007); "Protein Engineering: Security Implications" in EMBO Reports (June 2006); “Navigating Natural Gas Infrastructure” in Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute (June 2006); “The Mosquito Can Be More Dangerous Than The Mortar Round: The Obligations of Command” in the Naval War College Review (Winter 2005); “Projecting Biomedical Security” in Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute (July 2003) and “Strategic Biodefense: A Call to Reinvent the Hospital Ship” in Navy Medicine (March-April 2002). Correspondence on biosecurity-related topics has been published in Foreign Affairs Magazine and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Hooper’s opinion pieces on naval matters have appeared in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, San Diego Tribune, and elsewhere.
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