Dr. John F. Kelly

Dr. John F. Kelly currently serves as Associate Dean at the National Defense University's Africa Center for Strategic Studies. Kelly was a four-term Michigan state Senator and a 1994 candidate for the U.S. Senate. He has 35 years of experience in higher education, civil government and military science, and has served in the United States Army as a defense attaché and a Judge Advocate General. His scholarly expertise lies in internal security and homeland defense, civilian policy development, electoral reform and democracy, and southern Africa. John Francis Kelly was born in Detroit, Michigan on September 6, 1949 to parents Margaret Kelly and Robert Corby Kelly. Robert was a studio artist and instructor, and retired as an accountant for...