Associate Professor, Dr. Travis Morris, served as a captain in the U.S. Army where he spent 4 years on active duty as an Airborne Ranger qualified Infantry Officer with the 10th Mountain Division. After completing his military service, Dr. Morris was a police officer in Lexington, Kentucky and served as a consultant to the Office of Domestic Preparedness for Managing Civil Actions in Threat Incidents. During his doctoral studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Dr. Morris was an Intelligence Community Scholar through the Office of Director of National Intelligence and Presidential Fellow. Currently he serves as the Director for Norwich University’s (NU) School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Director of NU’s Peace and War Centre. During his time at Norwich, he was awarded the highest award for research given to one faculty member across campus annually and the highest teaching award given to only one faculty member every two years. He has published books and articles on propaganda analysis, national security, and terrorism. His achievements include national and international interdisciplinary projects: a) His students created the online counter-terrorism ‘Extremist Mimicry Interception Tool’ (EMIT) which won the prestigious Peer to Peer: Challenging Extremism national competition sponsored by the US Department of State, Homeland Security and Facebook. b) He leads an ongoing experiential learning-based field study in Peace and Conflict Studies, during which students travel to the Middle East to study the roots of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and NATO’s role in the Balkans. c) He was the director of the 2016 NATO Science for Peace and Security Advance Training Course (ATC) in the Balkans in partnership with the Macedonia Military Academy. This NATO funded initiative was attended by three Ministers of Defense, Military Leaders, and other key stake holders in the Balkans. The ATC initiative was critical for the design of effective counterterrorism recruiting and interception strategies in South Eastern Europe. Dr. Morris and Dr. Hadji-Janev, published the ATC proceedings in their book, Countering the South Eastern European Terrorist Threat. His 2017 book, Dark Ideas: How Neo-Nazi and Violent Jihadi Ideologues Shaped Modern Terrorism, is a seminal publication on extremist propaganda.