Olga Bertelsen

Dr. Olga Bertelsen is Associate Professor of Global Security and Intelligence at Tiffin University, Ohio. She studied in Ukraine, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and taught at Columbia University, Harvard, NYU, University of Toronto, an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She is a co-director of the Mid-West chapter of the American International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE) and sits on the editorial boards of several scholarly periodicals, including the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. She is author of, among others, In the Labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine's Intelligentsia in the 1960s–1970s (Lexington Books 2023) as well as editor of Les' Kurbas i teatr “Berezil'” (Smoloskyp 2016), Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine (ibidem-Verlag 2017) and Russian Active Measures (ibidem-Verlag 2021). Her articles have been published in, among other periodicals, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Nationalities Papers, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, Genocide Studies International, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, and Europe-Asia Studies.