Kathryn Wiseman

At Johns Hopkins, Kathryn Wiseman serves as a lecturer in the MS in Intelligence Analysis program. Her career at the Central Intelligence Agency spanned more than 35 years as an intelligence analyst and as an instructor at the Sherman Kent School of Intelligence Analysis. As a political analyst, she focused on hard-target adversaries in East Asia, developed methodologies for anticipating discontinuities in authoritarian regimes, and shaped interagency consensus on terminology and frameworks for evaluating foreign malign influence campaigns. She also mapped information flows in controlled media ecosystems and developed tradecraft to identify geostrategic risks emerging within closed societies.

As an Instructor of Political Analysis, she taught advanced analytic tradecraft to CIA and intelligence community analysts. She innovated methodologies for assessing regime durability and vulnerability to political discontinuities across the span of government types and throughout the arc of political change.

Wiseman continues to focus on analytic tradecraft innovation, with current interests in the application of artificial intelligence tools to enhance human judgment and structured reasoning. She is particularly engaged in developing tradecraft related to anticipatory analysis, authoritarian regime trajectories, authoritarian exits, and the evolving challenges of producing objective, high-impact assessments in complex and rapidly changing political environments and information landscapes. As part of this work, she is committed to advancing the craft of strategic analysis and production of long-range, high-consequence assessments that inform national security decision-making.

Wiseman earned her MA in East Asian Studies (China concentration) from the University of Michigan and her BA in East Asian Studies with a minor in History from Wittenberg University.