Mark Simpson is a political scientist, whose work examines challenges to American geopolitical dominance from foreign entities, presidential campaigns and elections, and threats posed by terrorist organizations.

Corman is the director of the Center for Strategic Communication and researcher in strategic communication, counterterrorism, organizational communication, narrative, framing, text analysis, and networks.

Rothenberg is the co-director of the Center on the Future of War, working on human rights, international law, and conflict.

Erik Luna is the Amelia D. Lewis Professor of Constitutional and Criminal Law. He teaches and writes primarily in the areas of criminal law and criminal procedure.

Ashley Gimbal earned her PhD from ASU in 2018. She earned her master’s degree from San Francisco State University and bachelor’s degree from California State University, Chico. Her research examines mass media framing.

Cheryl Schmidt's research interests includes disaster preparedness of nursing students. She is also a member of the Research Committee of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center

Bienenstock's substantive area of specialization within sociology is social psychology, with emphasis on emergent properties of exchange.

Gall is a hazards geographer and studies how natural hazards and society interact. She utilizes geospatial analytics and disaster metrics (vulnerability indices, losses, etc.) to capture these interactions.