About

AT A GLANCE:
Scholar-practitioner in intelligence and security studies; Former Director, MA in Global Security Studies, Johns Hopkins University

RESEARCH AREAS:
• U.S. Intelligence History
• Comparative Intelligence Studies
• Military History and Strategic Thought
• Intelligence Education and Analysis

BIOGRAPHY:
Mark Stout, PhD is a scholar-practitioner in the field of intelligence and security studies. He is retired from Johns Hopkins University, where he directed the M.A. in Global Security Studies for eight years and concurrently led the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Intelligence for four. He has also taught at Georgetown University and The Catholic University.

Prior to his academic career, Stout spent twenty-one years in the U.S. national security community, including twelve years as an intelligence analyst or manager and a year as Deputy Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence for Foreign Intelligence Relationships. He also conducted defense research for the U.S. Army and the Institute for Defense Analyses, and served as the Historian for the International Spy Museum for three years.

He holds an M.P.P. from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Leeds.

Stout serves on the editorial boards of Intelligence and National Security and Georgetown University Press’s Studies in Intelligence History and Concise Histories of Intelligence series. He was the founding President of the North American Society for Intelligence History, now the Society for Intelligence History.