Dr. Angie Mallory is an Assistant Research Scientist in Rhetoric at ARLIS, where she is a member of the Cognitive Security team and focuses on operations.
Angie started her career adventure as a firefighter/EMT and then served for six years in the U.S. Navy as a jet mechanic and disaster mitigation specialist. Then, as a newly minted Veteran herself, she attended Montana State University in Bozeman, MT, where she received her bachelor's degree in English with a focus in Writing. Having engaged deeply in graduate-level research and publishing as an undergraduate, she was invited directly into Iowa State University's PhD program in Rhetoric and Professional Communication, the university'ss first of only a few students to be empowered to skip a master's degree and move directly into PhD work.
As a PhD student, Angie created her own unusual career track, mingling rhetoric with a passion to help solve difficult national security problems faced by operators in the field. She was simultaneously enrolled in the University of Maryland's START graduate certificate program, using the courses which mingled psychology and counterterrorism as a focus area for her ultimate goal of being an expert on the human aspects of military operations. Her drive to grow her field and be a relevant resource for military operations led her to conduct her PhD research embedded at an international military exercise with a U.S. Marine Corps Military Information Support Operations (MISO) unit. There she conducted anthropologic case studies of the Marines’ challenges in building working relationships with foreign populations in austere environments. Her research moved rhetorical theory towards methods useful in operational environments and resulted in an ongoing working relationship with the MISO community.
Angie continued her work as a persuasive communication advisor in the operational environment until her journey led to her dream job here at ARLIS where she eagerly engages the difficult challenges of Information Operations (IO), allowing real-world challenges to drive growth in her academic field through relevant research. In her spare time, Angie enjoys training wild mustangs, introducing others to ranch life, and offroading.