Specializations
- Cybersecurity
- Emerging Technologies (ie, Big Data, AI, UAVs, IoT)
- IT Governance
Courses
- - Cybersecurity Functions And Trends
Biography
Dr. Sarah Lohmann is a Full-Time Teaching Faculty (Lecturer) at the University of Washington Information School specializing in cybersecurity, emerging technologies, and IT Governance. Her current research focus is on AI and cyber early warning, hybrid warfare and the protection of energy critical infrastructure from cyber threats. As an employee of the UW since 2019, Sarah has also taught in the UW鈥檚 Jackson School and Communications Departments. A former State Department civil servant, Sarah has collaborated on field research across Eurasia as a cyber SME and Visiting Research Professor for the US Army War College. She is currently co-leading the cyber research for a NATO Science and Technology project in collaboration with West Point鈥檚 Army Cyber Institute. She is an editor and contributing author of four recent books: What Ukraine Taught NATO about Hybrid Warfare (2022), Countering Terrorism on Tomorrow鈥檚 Battlefield (2022), Emerging Technologies and Terrorism (2024), and a forthcoming book on Artificial Intelligence. Previously, she started and led the cyber program at Johns Hopkins University鈥檚 American German Institute, where she is a Non-Resident Fellow. She is on the Advisory Board of the Maritime Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence and on the Editorial Boards of the defense journal Parameters and the new Journal of Strategic Competition.
Courses:
IMT 558: Leadership in Enterprise Information Security
IMT 559: Cybersecurity Trends
IMT 589: Emerging Technologies
IMT 589: IT Governance
Education
- Ph D, Political Science, Universit盲t der Bundeswehr Munich, 2013
- MA, International Service, American University, 2004
- BA, Communications and German , Wheaton College, IL, 1997