Dr. Robert S. Burrell is a resilience and resistance interdisciplinary scholar using data-driven and human-centric methodologies to analyze intrastate conflict ranging from nonviolent protest through belligerency. His methodological frameworks for identifying and measuring resistance currently support ongoing special research projects at . He also serves as a 2025 fellow for the Irregular Warfare Initiative. Burrell’s disciplines include history, military science and international relations. Since 2024, he has worked as a Senior Research Fellow with Global and National Security Institute at the University of South Florida. From 2020-2024, he taught irregular warfare at Joint Special Operations University. During the years 2011-2014, he served as the U.S. Special Operations Command Editor-in-Chief for doctrine on special operations, security cooperation, unconventional warfare, counterterrorism, psychological operations, and civil military operations – overseeing joint and allied special operations canons for the Department of Defense. From 2001-2004, Burrell taught both Navy and Marine Corps history at U.S. Naval Academy, where he received multiple writing awards. A retired Marine with multiple combat tours, he is an Asia-Pacific expert with twelve years living and working in Japan, Korea, Philippines, and Thailand, as well as a diplomatic tour at the U.S. Embassy in Australia – where he directed national-strategic policies regarding the Marine Rotational Force in Darwin. He has a PhD in history from the University of Warwick and master’s degrees from San Diego State University and the U.S. Naval War College. 

This site only highlights some of my work. If you would like to see a more comprehensive view of my academic accomplishments, see my CV (the other side is that the website will likely contain the more recent scholarship).