Joan Johnson-Freese, Department Chair of National Security Studies

Naval War College

Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese assumed the position of Chair, Department of National Security Studies, at the Naval War College in August 2002. Prior to that, she was: Chair of the Transnational Studies Department, a faculty member at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the Director of the Center for Space Policy & Law at the University of Central Florida. Her doctorate is in political science.

Within the realm of international and national security studies, Dr. Johnson-Freese has focused her research and writing on technology programs and policies generally, and space programs and policies specifically, including issues relating to technology transfer and export, missile defense, transparency, space and regional development, transformation, and globalization.

Dr. Johnson-Freese has served on the National Research Council, Space Studies Board, Committee on International Programs; Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Advisory Panel for U.S. Space Launch Capabilities Study, 1994-95; and SPACECAST 2020, Board of Advisors, 1993, USAF study. As a media consultant on space she has worked with such organizations as: CBS Nightly News, CBS news specials, CNN, the BBC, Austrian television, the Discovery Channel, ABC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Florida Today, and Space News. She has also testified before the U.S. Congress concerning U.S.-Sino security issues concerning space.

Dr. Johnson-Freese is currently working on a new book entitled Heavenly Ambitions for Columbia University Press, due out in 2006. Earlier books include: The Chinese Space Program: A Mystery Within a Maze (Krieger Publishing, 1998); Space: The Dormant Frontier, Changing the Space Paradigm for the 21st Century, (Praeger Publishers, 1997); The Prestige Trap: A Comparative Study of the US, European and Japanese Space Programs, with Roger Handberg, (Kendall-Hunt, 1994); Over the Pacific: Japanese Space Policy Into the 21st Century, (Kendall-Hunt, 1993); and Changing Patterns of International Cooperation in Space, (Krieger Publishing, 1990). She has also published over 70 journal articles.

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