Dr. James Lockhart
Assistant Professor
James Lockhart (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7674-1604) earned a PhD in the history of American foreign relations and intelligence with minors in global/comparative history and Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), and active member of the Cambridge, Mass.-based Scholars Strategy Network. Prior to joining the faculty at UTEP, he lectured at the Embry-Riddle College of Security and Intelligence in Prescott, AZ and spent eight years in military academies and universities in the Persian/Arabian Gulf, where he helped train an emerging professional officer corps in security and intelligence while teaching graduates and undergraduates from more than 100 nations in international affairs, security studies, and diplomacy.
Lockhart's research and teaching interests lie in history and international affairs, especially in the Global South -- particularly Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. His research, externally funded by several presidential foundations and the Gen. George Marshall Foundation, has appeared in the Marine Corps University Journal, the International History Review, International Affairs, Intelligence and National Security, and the Journal of Intelligence History. His first book, Chile, the CIA and the Cold War: A Transatlantic Perspective, was published by Edinburgh University Press, and was well reviewed in academic journals and in Studies in Intelligence, the Agency's in-house journal.
His current book projects highlight these interests. The first reconstructs the structural, organizational, and operational history of Cuban intelligence while the second explores the career of Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters (defense attaché, deputy director of central intelligence, and ambassador). Lockhart is collaborating with colleagues across North America and Western Europe on a separate, interdisciplinary project that blends secrecy and visual culture and is supported by the British Academy. He has been an invited speaker before the British Cabinet Office's Intelligence Assessment Leadership Committee, the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, the Fiker Institute in Dubai, the Sharjah Art Foundation, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York, and other venues in the United States and abroad, including local news services in El Paso.
Classes Taught:
- INSS 3320/5320 Counterintelligence
- INSS 4302 Intelligence and Transnational Threats
- INSS 5304 Intelligence and National Security Policies and Procedures
- INSS 5307 Open Source Intelligence
- INSS 5308 Propaganda and Influence Operations
