Dr. Joseph “Joe” P. Bassi is an adjunct online lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso in National Security Studies. He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and specializes in the history of space sciences. During his PhD program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Joe was a Guggenheim predoctoral […]
Biography
Dr. Joseph “Joe” P. Bassi is an adjunct online lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso in National Security Studies. He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and specializes in the history of space sciences. During his PhD program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Joe was a Guggenheim predoctoral fellow in space history at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. From 2010 until 2017, he was an assistant professor of arts and science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Joe is a retired US Air Force officer with twenty-six years of active duty. He also has graduate degrees in meteorology from Penn State, astrophysics from the University of Colorado, and history from George Washington University. He graduated from Manhattan College with a BS in physics and was a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program.
Biography
Dr. Joseph “Joe” P. Bassi is an adjunct online lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso in National Security Studies. He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and specializes in the history of space sciences. During his PhD program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Joe was a Guggenheim predoctoral fellow in space history at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. From 2010 until 2017, he was an assistant professor of arts and science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Joe is a retired US Air Force officer with twenty-six years of active duty. He also has graduate degrees in meteorology from Penn State, astrophysics from the University of Colorado, and history from George Washington University. He graduated from Manhattan College with a BS in physics and was a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program.