Dr. Jeffrey Rogg is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of South Florida’s Global and National Security Institute. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the Joint Special Operations University (U.S. Special Operations Command) and The Citadel. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College. 

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Jeff is vice president of the Society for Intelligence History and associate editor of the journal Intelligence and National Security. He recently joined the Jack Miller Center’s network of scholars, which is dedicated to teaching America’s founding principles and history. His work has appeared in several academic journals and volumes as well as media including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The National Interest, The Hill, and the Los Angeles Times. Jeff’s book, The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence, was published by Oxford University Press in June 2025.

Jeff has a BA in Latin and ancient history from Swarthmore College, a JD from Villanova University School of Law, an MA in security studies from Georgetown University, and a PhD in history from The Ohio State University. He served six years in the Massachusetts Army National Guard as an infantryman.

Born in Kotor, Montenegro, Dr. Filip Kovacevic (PhD, University of Missouri, 2002) has taught at universities in both Europe and the United States for more than 25 years and is a leading research scholar of Soviet/Russian intelligence and counterintelligence history, operations, and spy fiction. He received fellowships from the Open Society Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. He is currently teaching at the University of San Francisco.

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Dr. Kovacevic has published numerous academic and non-academic articles, including chapters in edited volumes. He is the author of KGB Literati: Spy Fiction & State Security in the Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press, 2025) and Liberating Oedipus? Psychoanalysis as Critical Theory (Lexington Books, 2006). He runs a popular blog "The Chekist Monitor" and writes on Substack ("KGB Stuff by Filip Kovacevic"). 

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Aaron Bateman is an assistant professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University. He studies how technology shaped international security in the Cold War. He is the author of Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative (MIT Press, 2024). His peer-reviewed work has been published in International Security, the Journal of Strategic Studies, International History Review, Diplomacy & Statecraft, and Intelligence and National Security (among others). His policy commentary has been published in Foreign Affairs, Engelsberg Ideas, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Physics Today, and War on the Rocks. He received his PhD in history of science from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to his doctoral studies, he served as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer. 

Ariel Whitfield Sobel was awarded a PhD from Brunel University of London, concentrating on the genealogies and histories of actor training methodologies within human intelligence practices during the 20th century. Alongside her academic work, she has worked as a professional actor and actor trainer both in the United States and the United Kingdom. She attained her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and received two master’s degrees, one from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the other from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. 

She has published two articles with the Journal of Intelligence and National Security,, 'All the world's a stage: covert action as theatrical performance' (2022), explores the use of theatre and performance as tools for espionage. Her second article, part of the special edition on John le Carré, entitled, 'The theatre of the real: the actor/spy relationship in le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Little Drummer Girl' (2022), examines the author’s life and works in relation to ‘the actor’ and performance. She is working on converting her doctoral thesis into a book and several creative projects, including those for stage and screen.