Alexandra Sukalo is the Director of the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project and an Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching focus on Russian and Soviet intelligence and security services, the Russian and Soviet military-industrial complex, as well as the Russian and Soviet nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

She is completing a book manuscript on the Soviet Union’s domestic intelligence and security services under Stalin. Her dissertation, upon which her book is based, won The University of Texas at Austin’s Bobby R. Inman Award for excellence in student scholarship on intelligence. Her second book project, entitled The Soviet Nuclear Empire, examines the development and workings of the Soviet nuclear industry. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post. She has worked as a Eurasian analyst for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.