Associate Professor Global Security and Intelligence
Thomas Field is Chair of the Department of Global Security and Intelligence Studies at Embry-Riddle's College of Security and Intelligence. He is author ofFrom Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era, which was published by Cornell University Press in 2014 with a paperback version due in January 2018. It received the Thomas McGann Award from the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies and was named an "Outstanding Academic Title" by the American Library Association's Choice magazine. Dr. Field is also the recipient of the Bernath Article Prize and the Unterberger Dissertation Prize, both by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is currently working on a book regarding the 1967 death of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Bolivia and its impact on the Third World movement.
At Embry-Riddle, Dr. Field specializes on the teaching of intelligence in a historical context. He is especially interested in intelligence gathering, analysis, and writing, as well as intelligence operations within global, regional, and local contexts. Dr. Field teaches courses on revolutionary movements, wars, covert operations, political change, social conflict, and globalization. As department chair, Dr. Field has focused on building the security and intelligence programs into a community of active scholars and inquisitive student researchers at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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About Thomas Field
Thomas Field is Chair of the Department of Global Security and Intelligence Studies at Embry-Riddle's College of Security and Intelligence. He is author ofFrom Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era, which was published by Cornell University Press in 2014 with a paperback version due in January 2018. It received the Thomas McGann Award from the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies and was named an "Outstanding Academic Title" by the American Library Association's Choice magazine. Dr. Field is also the recipient of the Bernath Article Prize and the Unterberger Dissertation Prize, both by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is currently working on a book regarding the 1967 death of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Bolivia and its impact on the Third World movement.
At Embry-Riddle, Dr. Field specializes on the teaching of intelligence in a historical context. He is especially interested in intelligence gathering, analysis, and writing, as well as intelligence operations within global, regional, and local contexts. Dr. Field teaches courses on revolutionary movements, wars, covert operations, political change, social conflict, and globalization. As department chair, Dr. Field has focused on building the security and intelligence programs into a community of active scholars and inquisitive student researchers at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
| Present | Associate Professor Global Security and Intelligence, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | |
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Disciplines
Honors and Awards
- 2015 Thomas McGann Book Award, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies
- 2012 Stuart L. Bernath Article Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
- 2011 Betty M. Unterberber Dissertation Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Courses
- Senior Thesis
- International Security and Globalization
- Intelligence and the Spectrum of Social Conflict
- Political Change, Revolution, and War
- U.S. - Latin American RElations
- U.S. Foreign Policy