About
AT A GLANCE:
Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Associate Dean for Faculty, Rob Walton College of Global Futures
Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
RESEARCH AREAS:
Vogel's overall research interests relate the study of knowledge production on security
and intelligence problems. She has particular expertise in: (1) assessing dual use
research of concern; (2) state and non-state actor security threats related to developments
in the life science and emerging technologies; (3) how to create more holistic assessments
of biosecurity threats involving different kinds of social and technical knowledge;
(4) studying how knowledge is produced within U.S. intelligence.
BIOGRAPHY:
Professor Kathleen Vogel is a Professor at the School for the Future of Innovation
in Society at Arizona State University. She has served in the U.S. Department of State
as a William C. Foster Fellow in the Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction in the
Bureau of Nonproliferation and as a visiting scholar at Sandia National Laboratories.
Vogel holds a Ph.D. in bio-physical chemistry from Princeton University. Her book,
Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?: A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threats
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press) proposes a new way of analyzing security
threats and identifying gaps, vulnerabilities, as well as over-hyped areas in the
health security domain. Her most recent book (co-authored with Carl F. Ford): US Intelligence
Failure and Knowledge Creation: Improving Intelligence Analysis (London: Routledge,
2025), examines the roots and elements of the research and knowledge-generation problems
in US intelligence. She has extensive experience interfacing with a variety of U.S.
officials and experts on security issues.
PUBLICATIONS:
Vogel, Kathleen M., “Human-machine teaming for digital transformation,” Intelligence
and National Security (2025): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2025.2565945
Gillum, David R,+ An Tran, Jennifer Fletcher and Kathleen M Vogel, “Bridging Biosafety and Biosecurity Gaps: DURC and ePPP Policy Insights from U.S. Institutions,” Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology vol. 12 (2024), https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2024.1476527
Vogel, Kathleen M. and Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, “Scientists as Spies? Assessing U.S. Claims about the Security Threat Posed by China’s Thousand Talents Program for the U.S. Life Sciences,” Politics and the Life Sciences (June 2022): 1-33, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-the-life-sciences/article/abs/scientists-as-spies/DA5B1DD06F939076B5CD0D72423FB025
Vogel, Kathleen M. and Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, “China’s Biomedical Data Hacking Threat: Applying Big Data Isn’t As Easy As It Seems,” Texas National Security Review vol. 5, iss 3 (Summer 2022): 83-98, https://tnsr.org/2022/04/chinas-biomedical-data-hacking-threat-applying-big-data-isnt-as-easy-as-it-seems/
Vogel, Kathleen M., “Big Data, AI, Platforms, and the Future of the U.S. Intelligence Workforce: A Research Agenda,” IEEE Technology and Society Magazine vol. 40, no. 3 (September 2021): 84-92.
Vogel, Kathleen M., Gwendolynne Reid+, Christopher Kampe+, and Paul Jones+, “The impact of AI on intelligence analysis: Tackling issues of collaboration, algorithmic transparency, accountability, and management,” Intelligence and National Security vol. 36, iss. 6 (July 2021): 827-848.
Vogel, Kathleen M., “AI in Intelligence Analysis,” in The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence Loch K. Johnson (ed), (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, October 2025).
Vogel, Kathleen M. and Glenn Cross, “State-Sponsored Assassinations and How They Challenge the Norm,” in International Security Studies and Technology Tobias Gibson and Kurt Jefferson (eds), (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishing, 2024).
Vogel, Kathleen M., “Improving the health security intelligence workforce and research agenda,” in Health Security Intelligence in a Post COVID World, Patrick F. Walsh (ed), (London: Routledge, 2024).
Vogel, Kathleen M., “Open Source Research and Intelligence,” in Open Source Investigations in the Age of Google, Henrietta Wilson, Olamide Samuel and Dan Plesch (eds), (London: World Scientific Publishing, 2024).
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