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Dr. Nancy Teeple is a Defence Scientist-Strategic Analyst with Defence R&D Canada’s Centre of Operational Research (DRDC CORA), embedded with the Canadian Army Land Warfare Centre (CALWC) in Kingston, Ontario. Her research areas explore Canadian Army capabilities in the emerging operating environment, nuclear strategy and arms control, nuclear and conventional deterrence, modernization of North American defence, integrated air and missile defence (IAMD), and Arctic defence and security. Dr. Teeple is also an adjunct assistant professor and research associate at the Department of Political Science and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC) and was the 2020-21 postdoctoral fellow at the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN) (DND MINDS). She held the 2019-2020 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Peace and War Studies at Norwich University in Vermont.  

Notable publications include an edited volume (with Ryan Dean) Shielding North America: Canada’s Role in NORAD Modernization, NAADSN Engage Series (2021); and peer reviewed articles, such as “The Future of Canadian Participation in Missile Defence, Canadian Army Journal (2022); “Close Engagement in the Gray Zone” (with Peter Gizewski) – forthcoming in a special edition of the Canadian Army Journal; “Offensive Weapons and the Future of Arms Control,” Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies (2020); “A Brief History of Intrusions into the Canadian Arctic,” Canadian Army Journal (2010); (with Stuart Farson) “Increasing Canada’s Foreign Intelligence Capability: Is it a Dead Issue?,” Intelligence and National Security (2015); “A Minimum Deterrence Nuclear Posture and the Challenge of Deterrence Failure,” On Track (2015/2016); and contribution to the Simons Forum Report (with Bruce Blaire and Nola-Kate Seymoar) “Repairing the US-NATO-Russia Relationship and Reducing the Risks of the Use of Nuclear Weapons,” in 2018.