About
AT A GLANCE:
Assistant professor of Security Studies at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
RESEARCH AREAS:
• Middle East
• US Defense Policy
• National Security
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Diane Maye Zorri 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 – Iraq in Baghdad, managing over four hundred bilingual, bicultural advisors
to the US Department of State and the US Department of Defense.
Dr. Zorri has published several works and has been featured in scholarly and news
mediums including CNN, the Digest of Middle East 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 coursework in Italian at the Università per
Stranieri in Perugia, Italy.
PUBLICATIONS:
Position, Navigation, and Timing Weaponization in the Maritime Domain: Orientation
in the Era of Great Systems Conflict (National Defense University Press), with Gary C. Kessler
Saudi Arabia and Iran in a Multipolar Global World Order: Scenarios for the Future
of the Middle East (Journal of Peace and War Studies)
CONNECT / FOLLOW:
LinkedIn: @in/dianemaye/