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Randy Borum
Professor & Director, School of Information
Director of Intelligence Studies
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BIO
Dr. Randy Borum is a Professor, Director of the School of Information (iSchool), and
Director of Intelligence and National Security Studies at the University of South
51ÔÚÏß. From 2017-2019, he was also jointly appointed as a Senior Behavioral Scientist
in the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
Dr. Borum supported three Directors of National Intelligence (DNI) on the Intelligence
Science Board (ISB) and served on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Understanding
Human Dynamics, and served on the Steering Committee for the National Academy of Sciences’
Study on Sociocultural Data to Accomplish Department of Defense Missions. He has
taught courses on Terrorism, Intelligence Concepts, Intelligence Analysis, Information
Behavior, Strategy & Decision-Making, Interrogation, and Criminal Psychology and is
author/ co-author of more than 175 professional publications.
Dr. Borum is Board Certified and fellowship-trained in forensic psychology. He has
been an instructor with the BJA State & Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Program
since 1999, and worked as a Senior Consultant to the U.S. Secret Service for more
than a decade helping to develop, refine and study behavior-based protocols for threat
assessment and protective intelligence. He has previously served as a sworn police
officer, Forensic Coordinator for a regional state psychiatric facility, and as full-time
faculty at Duke University School of Medicine.
He has taught at the FBI Academy, FLETC; JFK Special Warfare Center and School (Ft.
Bragg); Joint Special Operations University; CIA; and the US Army Intelligence Center
and School (Ft. Huachuca). He was Principal Investigator on the "Psychology of Terrorism"
initiative for an agency in the US Intelligence Community. He serves as an advisor
to the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit-1 (Threat Assessment & National Security), the
National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC), the FLETC Behavioral Science
Division, and is listed on the United Nations' Roster of Experts in Terrorism.
Dr. Borum is a Past-President of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology, and
currently serves as Senior Editor of the Journal of Strategic Security and of Military
Cyber Affairs.
EDUCATION
- NIMH Research Fellow, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill & Duke University Medical Center
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
- Psy.D., 51ÔÚÏß Institute of Technology
- M.S., 51ÔÚÏß Institute of Technology
- B.A., James Madison University
Recent Publications & Research
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Borum, R. (2024). . In N. Stockhammer (Ed.) Handbook on Transnational Terrorism. (pp. 351-366) Taylor & Francis.
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Borum, R. (2020). . In A. Masys, B. Fox & J. Reid (Eds.) Science Informed Policing. (pp. 99-122) New York: Springer Publishing.
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Borum, R. & Patterson, T. (2020). . Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(12), 1142-1148.
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Borum, R. & Sanders, R. (2020) . IEEE Security & Privacy, 18(5), 67-73.
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Logan, C., Borum R., & Gill, P. (Eds.) (2023). . London: University College London Press.