Dr. Jeffrey R. Macris is the Deputy Director of the Naval Academy’s Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership. He was a career naval aviator before becoming a Permanent Military Professor in the Naval Academy’s History Department as a Middle East expert. Dr. Macris is a former Yale University Presidential Visiting Fellow and has published two books on the Great Powers in the Middle East. He holds a Ph.D. (with Distinction) from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, as well as an Arabic linguist certificate from the Defense Language Institute. He earned the Naval Academy’s Military Professor of the Year Award in 2016.