Update: Thomas Rid will not be able to join us due to an unexpected development. We will reschedule the event for a future date.

Thomas Rid discusses excerpts of his new book Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

The author will join for a conversation about their work. No formal presentation will be given; please read in advance. A link to the readingwill be sent with the registration confirmation.

This seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Science Technology Studies (STS).

Part of the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) seminar series.

About the author

Thomas Rid is Professor of Stategic Studies at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Rid brings to Johns Hopkins more than a decade of experience in international security and intelligence studies, previously serving as a Professor of Security Studies in the Department of War Studies at Kings College London, where he developed a Cyber Security module that bridged the gap between technological and political debates.

Rid has recently shared his expertise on information security through testimony before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as insights on intelligence with the German Bundestag and the UK Parliament.

Rid closely tracked the election interference in 2016, and was one of the first named sources to call out the hack-and-leak as a Russian intelligence operation, only one day after details became public.

He has held positions at the RAND Corporation in Washington, the Institut Franais des Relations Internationales in Paris, and served as a visiting scholar at Hebrew University and Shalem Center in Jerusalem. From 2007 to 2008, Rid served as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS. He holds a PhD and MA in Social Science from Humboldt University in Berlin.