Rebecca Goolsby

Rebecca Goolsby, Ph.D. is a program officer and anthropologist at the Office

of Naval Research. She received her doctorate in cultural anthropology at

the University of Washington in Seattle, where she concentrated on South

East Asia,  international development and social change. She was a Fulbright

Scholar to Thailand and taught at West Coast universities for fifteen years

before coming to ONR in 2000. She started the first programs on social

network analysis and computational social science in the Department of

Defense. Her peer-reviewed publications include ethics in social science

research, crisis mapping, and social media in crisis situations, among other

topics. She has participated as a consulting scientist for Exercise 24 and

the Arizona State University Crisis Game.

(Last Updated 14 July 2012.)

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