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Joyce Sampson, Ph.D.

Professor
Strategy and War
College of Distance Education

Phone:: (831) 656-1016
Email:: jesampson@nps.edu

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A veteran of the United States Air Force, Dr. Joyce Sampson earned her Ph. D. in political and military history from The Florida State University in April 2001. Specializing in Early Modern British History, her doctoral dissertation was a biography of Major-General Thomas Harrison, one of Oliver Cromwell's regimental commanders during the English Civil Wars, 1640-1660. As a doctoral candidate, Professor Sampson received the J. Leitch-Wright Research Award (1998) and a Florida State University Fellowship (1998-1999). Now Director of the Web-Based course for Strategy and Policy, Dr. Sampson has fifteen plus years of virtual and live teaching experience, including a semester at Florida State's London Study Program in the United Kingdom. She also has a minor in Middle Eastern Studies, and is teaching electives courses on Islam and the Middle East, and The History of Modern Iran in the Electives Program at the U.S. Naval War College, She has presented aspects of her research in 17th-century English History at the late Lord Conrad Russell’s Stuart Seminar at the prestigious Institute for Historical Research, University of London, the North American Conference for British Studies, and at the Midwestern, Pacific Coast, and Southern Conferences of British History. She has also contributed articles to the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004), the Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2003), The Readers' Guide to British History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2002), The Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England (Greenwood, 2001), and History: Review of New Books (1997 and 2002). She is currently working on a brief biography of Oliver Cromwell’s military career.

Joyce's hobbies include playing music (bass guitar, acoustic guitar & songwriting), riding motorcycles (2009 BMW R1200 RT and 2006 HD Heritage Softail), and bicycles (Specialized Roubaix Comp Compact, Trek Hybrid, and Kona Fire Mountain Moutain Bike).

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