Hanging with Hoos

Dr. James Lockhart studies the history of American foreign relations, global security and intelligence, and Latin American affairs, particularly southern South America, during the Cold War. A member of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Scholars Strategy Network, he has published on the history of the CIA, contributed to War on the Rocks, an online platform for analysis, commentary, debate, and multimedia content on national security and foreign policy, and been interviewed by American and Emirati journalists. His first book, Chile, the CIA, and the Cold War: A Transatlantic Perspective, will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2019. Before joining the faculty in International and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University in Dubai, he lectured at the Embry-Riddle College of Security and Intelligence and at the University of Arizona, where he earned his PhD.

Dr. Matthew Ingalls is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the American University in Dubai. He has been a university faculty member in Dubai and the U.S for the past eight years, while his academic specializes in medieval Islamic Law, Sufism, and the Mamluk Sultanate. https://aud.academia.edu/MatthewIngalls

Dr. Vernon Pedersen is a specialist in the history of American and International Communism with emphasis on the maritime unions and the Spanish Civil War. His teaching areas include American and Soviet history, European history, history of the Cold War and espionage, as well as maritime history and international security. He taught at Shepherd College in West Virginia, the American University in Bulgaria and at the University of Great Falls.