Scott Englund

Scott Englund is a terrorism, counter-terror policy, and international security expert. Currently, he is a member of the faculty at the National Intelligence University and a Visiting Scholar with the Orfalea Center for Global and international Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to his present academic career, Dr. Englund was a political and counter-terrorism analyst for the Department of Defense and the Federal Bureau of Investigation; in that capacity he provided assessments for the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and other senior US policy makers. Between 2006 and 2009, Dr. Englund was deployed to Iraq four times. Dr. Englund has also served on the professional staff of elected officials at the federal, state and municipal level of government in the US.

Education

• Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara (2013)
• M.A. International Relations, University of San Diego (2001)
• B.A. Political Science, San Diego State University (1996)

Books

• Stohl, Michael, Richard Burchill, & Scott Englund, eds. 2017. The Constructions of Terrorism. Berkeley: University of California Press.