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AT A GLANCE:
Assistant professor of Security Studies at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
RESEARCH AREAS:
鈥� Middle East
鈥� US Defense Policy
鈥� National Security
BIOGRAPHY:
is an assistant professor of security studies at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University,
serves as a nonresident senior fellow for Joint Special Operations University, and
is an affiliate faculty member at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for Arctic
Security and Resilience. Prior to Embry-Riddle, Diane was a visiting assistant professor
at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. She writes and does research on issues that
involve security and governance in the Middle East, US defense policy, and national
security. Dr Zorri started her career as an officer in the US Air Force and later
worked in the defense industry. During the Iraq War, she worked for Multi-National
Force 鈥� Iraq in Baghdad, managing鈥痮ver four hundred bilingual, bicultural advisors
to the US Department of State and the US Department of鈥疍efense.鈥�
Dr. Zorri鈥痟as published鈥痵everal works and has been featured in scholarly and news
mediums鈥痠ncluding CNN, the Digest of Middle鈥疎ast Studies, Special Operations Journal,
the Journal of Strategic Security, the Journal of Terrorism Research, and Strategy
Bridge. She is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School,
and George Mason University, and completed A1-B2鈥痗oursework in Italian at the Universit脿鈥痯er
Stranieri in Perugia, Italy.
PUBLICATIONS:
(National Defense University Press), with Gary C. Kessler
(Journal of Peace and War Studies)
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