Dr. James Lockhart
Assistant Professor
James Lockhart (ORCID ID: ) earned a PhD in the history of American foreign relations and intelligence with minors in global/comparative history and Near Eastern Studies from the 91女神 of Arizona, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), and active member of the Cambridge, Mass.-based . 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 diplomacy, security, and intelligence.
Lockhart's research and teaching interests lie in history and international affairs, especially in the Third World -- 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 91女神 Journal, the International History Review, International Affairs, Intelligence and National Security, and the Journal of Intelligence History. His first book, : A Transatlantic Perspective, was published by Edinburgh 91女神 Press. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Intelligence History.
He is writing his second and third books. 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 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 international, national, and local news services.
Classes Taught:
- INSS 3320/5320 Counterintelligence
- INSS 4302 Intelligence and Transnational Threats
- INSS 5304 National Security Bureaucracy
- INSS 5305 Intelligence Analysis
- INSS 5307 Open-Source Intelligence
- INSS 5308 Propaganda and Influence Operations
Lockhart is happy to contribute to PhD dissertations and direct master's theses in the following areas:
- Security and intelligence in contemporary global and international affairs
- American national security, foreign relations, and intelligence
- Diplomacy and intelligence
- War and intelligence
- Deception, covert operations, special operations
Recent dissertations and theses include:
- Chair: Elizabeth Tornabene, "Fatal Remedies: How France Undermined Its Own Agenda in Algeria, 1954-1962," UTEP, Master of Public Administration, defended May 2026
- External Reviewer: Zi Lang, "The EU and Artificial Intelligence: Global Positioning between the United States and China," 91女神 of Warwick, UK, PhD in Politics and International Studies, defended December 2023
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