Dr. Stephen Wrage
Academic Director
Dr. Wrage earned his B.A. in Classics at Amherst College. Upon graduating he went to Athens for two years where he taught in a Greek school and served as assistant to the president. Returning to the U.S. he taught at St. Albans School in Washington, worked at the Brookings Institution for Dr. Helmut Sonnefeldt and attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He served as assistant dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and wrote his dissertation -- a study of human rights in American foreign policy -- at Johns Hopkins under the direction of Dr. Robert Osgood. He has published scholarly articles and books on a variety of topics in ethics and American foreign policy and is the author of a number of widely used case studies of actual ethical quandaries experienced by officers in the American military. In 1995 he spent a Fulbright year in Singapore and has written about that severely controlled society for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic Monthly. In 2004 he published Immaculate Warfare, a study of the ethical, practical and command issues raised by precision guided munitions. He is an open-ocean sailor and brews his own beer.
LT Emelia Probasco
Faculty Director
LT Emmy Probasco is an instructor in the Political Science Department at the United States Naval Academy. Her areas of interest include defense policy and planning as well as civil-military relations.Prior to joining the faculty of the Naval Academy, she served for two and a half years as the Speechwriter and a Special Assistant to Admiral Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations. Operationally, LT Probasco served for three years aboard the AEGIS guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones. Through two deployments to the Western Pacific she was the Communications Officer, Public Affairs Officer, Assistant Operations Officer, and Fire Control Officer, the officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the AEGIS Weapons System and the ship's expert on Ballistic Missile Defense. LT Probasco is a 2002 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. After graduation, she attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where she completed a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Forced Migration and a second MSc in Economic and Social History. In 2009 she was selected as a "Next Generation National Security Leader" by the Center for a New American Security, and she currently serves on the board of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. Her naval service awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, and various unit and service awards.
