About

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AT A GLANCE:
Head of Broadening Academia Initiative, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

RESEARCH AREAS:
鈥 U.S. Foreign Relations
鈥 Modern Europe
鈥 Intelligence
鈥 Transnational/Transimperial History


BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Susan McCall Perlman
is a historian of U.S. foreign relations and intelligence. She currently leads the Broadening Academia Initiative at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and teaches at Georgetown University. She is a decorated former intelligence officer, most recently serving on the faculty of the National Intelligence University (NIU) as Professor of Intelligence Studies and Provost. Her research and teaching focus on modern France, diplomatic history, and intelligence through the lenses of transnationalism and emotion. In 2020, she was awarded the Robert Beland Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching at NIU. She is the author of Contesting France: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Besides her native language, English, Perlman speaks French and Italian. 

PUBLICATIONS:

鈥 BOOKS:

(Cambridge University Press, February 2023) 

鈥 BOOK CHAPTERS:
鈥淐overt Action in Postwar France,鈥 in Covert Action in the Early Cold War: Rethinking Western Covert Operations against International Communism, in progress/forthcoming.

鈥 REFEREED ARTICLES:
鈥淭he Future of Intelligence Analysis: Looking Beyond our Boundaries,鈥 Studies in Intelligence 64, no 3. (September 2020), with co-author Wes Westbrooks.


(Published online November 23, 2017, in print Volume 33, No. 3 2018) 


(Published online July 24, 2016, in print Volume 17, No 1. March 2017) 

鈥 BOOK REVIEWS:

(February 2023)

by Deborah Bauer, H-Diplo, February 2023.

, Spring 2021, with co-author William Colligan. 

, 1945-1946 by David Alvarez and Eduard Marks, H-Federal History, September 7, 2017. 

. Published online January 1, 2017, in print Volume 16, No. 2. July 2017. 

鈥 OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
Contributor, 鈥淩eflections on the 2016 SHAFR European Institute,鈥 Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review Volume 47, No 3. January 2017.


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