Dr. Joseph P. Bassi
Adjunct Instructor
Joseph P. Bassi is an (online) adjunct lecturer at the National Security Studies Institute, Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Texas/El. He retired as an assistant professor of arts and sciences at Embry Riddle Aeronautical Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é/Worldwide programs in 2017. Dr Bassi completed his PhD in History of Science at the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of California, Santa Barbara in June 2009. He specialized in the history of modern US space and atmospheric sciences.
A retired US Air Force officer with twenty-six years of active duty, he at various points in his military career had many space-related assignments including Director of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (Guam), Professor of Strategic Studies at a DOD college, Headquarters US Air Force Action Officer and Program Element Manager, Chief of the Acquisition Meteorology Office at Air Force Space Systems Division, and Assistant Professor of Physics at the USAF Academy.
In addition to the PhD, he has graduate degrees in Meteorology from Penn State, Astrophysics from the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Colorado, and History from the George Washington Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é. While at GWU, he was a NASA Space Grant Research Fellow at the Space Policy Institute, Elliot School of International Affairs. He graduated from Manhattan College in 1974 with a BS in Physics (Phi Beta Kappa) and was a distinguished graduate of the Air Force ROTC program.
Faculty Profile
Classes Taught:
- INSS 3315: Intelligence and Counterproliferation
- INSS 5315: Intelligence and Counterproliferation
- DSS 5312: Strategic Survey of Europe
- DSS 5320: Future Warfare