Guest Lectures 2025

We are excited to have an excellent slate of expert guest lecturers for the 2025 K-State Debate Camp ready to help students better understand the Arctic Exploration High School Topic.

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Dr. Scott McIntosh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Scott McIntosh is a Distinguished Lecturer in the Arctic Regional Security Orientation and Multi-Domain Legal Courses at the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies in Anchorage, Alaska. Dr. McIntosh retired from the Air Force in 2017, while serving as Country Desk Officer for a number of former Soviet republics within USAF Europe’s area of responsibility. An experienced Russia/Eurasia Foreign Area Officer, he also served as an analyst at NATO and as Senior U.S. Military Observer at the UN Observer Mission in Georgia during the 2008 Russia-Georgia War. A Cold War historian, he has written extensively on Russian military activity, information operations, and national interests—and has taught pertinent classes at Air Command and Staff College; USAF Special Operations School; NATO School Oberammergau; as well as a Business & Strategic Intelligence curriculum at Newman University in Wichita.

 

 

Dr. Beth Mendenhall

Dr. Elizabeth Mendenhall earned her Ph.D. in International Relations in 2017 from Johns Hopkins University and is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island, with a (limited) joint appointment in Political Science. Her research centers on the ocean governance regime, especially the Law of the Sea Convention. Dr. Mendenhall is an expert in Arctic governance and was a 2022 Fulbright Scholar in the Polar Law program at the University of Akureyri Iceland. Additionally, Dr. Mendenhall is a K-State Debate alum and the winner of the 2011 Cross Examination Debate Association National Championship.