Faculty Spotlight
Student Spotlight
Dr. Cihan Aydiner Associate department chair, Security and Emergency Services; program director, Homeland Security; assistant professor, College of Arts & Sciences
Kaitlynn Stookey M.S. in Human Security and Resilience (‘23), Department of Security and Emergency Services, College of Arts & Sciences
Kaitlynn Stookey is a program manager in the United States Air Force. Stationed in Kuwait, her current role in acquisitions focuses on foreign military sales. She is a student in the M.S. in Human Security & Resilience (MSHR) program and plans to transition to that area with the federal government upon graduation. According to Stookey, “The MSHR program has given me a deeper awareness of the multifaceted, complex and interwoven layers that impact security and resilience. It has also equipped me with useful methods and practices to implement within my work area.” These learning outcomes have allowed Stookey to leverage her experience within the federal government. Additionally, “I feel an obligation to make a difference as I further understand current events and global issues in more depth. MSHR is providing me with tools to be more effective and I am eager to share this knowledge in the field,” she said. Stookey appreciates the relevancy of the MSHR program in today’s security climate and how Embry-Riddle is preparing her with real-time, real-life scenarios: “I now have a different worldview and personal perspective about life, and I owe that to this program,” Stookey concluded.
Dr. Cihan Aydiner is an assistant professor and program director of Homeland Security. He has doctoral and master’s degrees in Sociology from Louisiana State University and a master’s degree in National and International Security Management and Leadership from Turkish Army War College. Dr. Aydiner’s current research focuses on the complex interdependencies among policy, Homeland Security and international migration. He also researches the quantitative measurement of human factors in Homeland Security and curriculum development and outcome measurement in Homeland Security education with scenario generation, red-teaming and exercises. During his military career, he had counterterrorism experience against three different ideological (nationalistic/ethnic-, revolutionary- and religiously-motivated) terrorist organizations as a practitioner and a planner. Dr. Aydiner’s interests revolve around immigration and artificial intelligence, social policy and inequality. His research agenda includes migration management, counterterrorism, Homeland Security, law enforcement, total institutions (e.g., military) and mixed research methods. He received the COAS Faculty Innovative Research in Science and Technology grant with the “Fast-Track Integration Model for Highly Educated Immigrants” Project in collaboration with Professor Erin Rider. The project directly benefits the management of highly educated expatriates by learning the characteristics of flow and proposing innovative alternatives for inclusion and integration. With this grant support, Dr. Aydiner is currently working on related projects to integrate highly educated migrants into labor markets and support Homeland Security.
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