Sandra Grady
Adjunct Associate Professor - Center for Security Studies (CSS)
Across a diverse career, Dr. Sandra Grady has focused on understanding how culture, identity, and belief influence behavior, first through ethnographic research and later through intelligence, counterterrorism, and foreign influence work. Currently a Senior Intelligence Officer at the Office of Naval Intelligence, she previously worked on foreign malign influence and intelligence ethics while teaching graduate courses on disinformation and national security. Her career experience includes research, analysis, instructional design, with substantive expertise in East Africa and refugee resettlement. Her forthcoming book on Intelligence Ethics is under contract with Lynne Rienner Press and her previoius work, Improvised Adolescence: Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America, is available from the University of Wisconsin Press.
Dr. Grady is an adjunct associate professor in the Security Studies Program (SSP), where she has taught graduate students since 2019. For a complete description of publications, presentations, grant awards, research interests, and courses taught, please request a Curriculum Vitae or resume.