Jesse Kirkpatrick is a fellow in New America's Future Security program. He is writing a book under contract by Harvard University Press on the relationship between emerging technologies, military virtue, and the fighting force of the future. He is a research assistant professor, the assistant director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University, and a politico-military analyst, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory. Previously, Kirkpatrick was a research fellow at the US Naval Academy’s Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership. Kirkpatrick is an expert on the ethics of peace and conflict, the study of emerging military technologies, counterinsurgency, asymmetric warfare, and biosecurity. Kirkpatrick is currently the principal investigator for two sponsored research projects. The first, in partnership with Stanford University, assesses the risks, benefits, and governance options for new synthetic biology technologies. The second, in partnership with the U.S. Naval Academy and Arizona State University, engages combat veterans in dialogues on the moral, psychological, and spiritual impacts of war. His work has appeared in numerous academic journals including, Journal of Military Ethics; Journal of Human Rights; Special Warfare Magazine; and Ethics.
