Learning Materials from the NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security
In this episode of the CHDS Master’s Thesis Series, Nicholas Knowlton and Robert O’Malley discuss their research and recommendations concerning the integration of immigrants into American life. Knowlton makes the case that electoral participation...
As technology becomes more prevalent and impersonal, Lier Chen challenges policymakers to stop their reliance upon simplistic interpretations of data that cause reactionary decisions. She provides a new tool, Muted Voices, that uses radical...
Katelin Wright explores the potential implications for migration to the U.S. as a result of the effects of climate change. Using models of severe weather patterns in the coming decades, she explores the expected...
Listen to audio: As I mentioned in our last episode; I’ll be releasing several conversations originally recorded during the APEX 2020 conference; this is one of those. In this episode, I’m joined by Madeline Kristoff...
NPS-CHDS master’s graduate Will Bierman (MA1803/1804), Field Office Director at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security, talks about how, by law, refugees entering the United States must...
Dr. Anne Marie Baylouny, Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and an expert in the Middle East, Refugees, Islam, and Social Welfare, talks about the Syrian refugee crisis in this four part series....
Video – 2016 CHDS Thesis Series. Catherine Ventura. CHDS graduate Catherine Ventura, Immigration Officer for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, received the March 2016 award for Outstanding Thesis. In this Viewpoints video, she discusses her work,...
Interview — video. Karina Ordonez. Karina Ordonez is the Assistant Director for Strategic Policy Arizona Governor’s Office of Homeland Security. She is a March 2006 graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Homeland Security Master’s...