ISP Faculty in the Field: ISP Fellow Dr. Kiril Avramov Set to Publish Second Book, Receives Eyes of Texas Excellence Award 2026  

April 10, 2026

Next month, Dr. Kiril Avramov, Non-Resident Fellow at the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) and Assistant Professor at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, will publish his second book of the past year entitled, “Ladders of Escalation: Flexible Modeling in Comparative Cases of the State-Sponsored Targeted Killings,” with Springer Nature. His co-author, Adam…

ISP Tearline Student Teams Brief Texas Army National Guard  

April 7, 2026

On Wednesday, April 1, 2026, students from two Tearline research teams briefed the General Officer Board meeting at the Texas Army National Guard. Brigadier General Monie Ulis, Deputy Adjutant General – Army at Camp Mabry, and his staff praised the students for their high-quality analysis and professional briefing abilities.   In recent years, the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project…

Dr. Bianca Adair to Serve As the New Resident Intelligence Officer at UT-Austin

August 4, 2020

Dr. Bianca Adair, an officer in the Directorate of Operations at the Central Intelligence Agency, will serve as the Resident Intelligence Officer at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs from Fall 2020 to Fall 2022. A successor to Dr. Alan…

Strauss Center Fellow Published in “International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence”

July 27, 2020

Caroline Burks, a UT Law School student and Cybersecurity Graduate Fellow with the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, recently published a paper “The Psychology of ‘Orwell the Snitch’: Applying Psychological Theories of Agent Recruitment” in the International Journal…

Brumley NextGen Graduate Fellow Co-authors Essay on Diversity in U.S. Foreign Affairs Agencies

July 6, 2020

Gabriel Cortez, a candidate for a Master in Global Policy Studies at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, recently co-authored a timely essay on the challenge of promoting and maintaining workplace diversity in America’s principal foreign affairs agencies. Mr. Cortez,…

U.S. Army War College Fellow Earns Research Awards

June 29, 2020

Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Eric Kreitz, a U.S. Army War College Fellow at UT-Austin during the 2019-20 academic year, earned third place in the Secretary of Defense’s National Essay Competition and the U.S. Army War College Commandant’s Award for Distinction in…

UT-Austin Student Completes Research on “Espionage in the Digital Age: How Technology is Impacting the Recruitment and Handling of Spies”

June 24, 2020

Katie Dehlinger, a UT-Austin Plan II Honors student, recently completed her research thesis on “Espionage in the Digital Age: How Technology is Impacting the Recruitment and Handling of Spies.” Using the framework of the so-called “agent acquisition cycle,” Ms. Dehlinger…

ISP Fellow Appointed as Assistant Professor in UT’s Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

June 18, 2020

The Intelligence Studies Project congratulates ISP Fellow Dr. Kiril Avramov on his appointment as an Assistant Professor in UT’s Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies. In addition to teaching, Dr. Avramov will lead an interdepartmental laboratory focused on “Global Internet,…

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