As Professor and Director of Security Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, I teach graduate and undergraduate courses on terrorism, counterterrorism, WMD and several other security-related topics. Since 2011 I have also taught a course on terrorism and CT at the Fletcher School, Tufts University.I serve as Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives on Terrorism (https://pt.icct.nl/), an internationally-acclaimed journal of peer-reviewed scholarly research based at ICCT in the Hague, the Netherlands. I've published over 20 books and dozens of articles in journals. Information on my recent books can be found at an Amazon Author's Page (http://www.amazon.com/James-JF-Forest/e/B000APG69Y/) and at http://www.jamesforest.com.I'm an alum of Georgetown University, Stanford University, Boston College and De Anza College. After serving 3 years as Assistant Dean for Academic Assessment at West Point, the Combating Terrorism Center was launched, and I became the Director of Terrorism Studies. General (ret.) Wayne Downing was the Center’s Distinguished Chair – please visit the Foundation established in his honor, and consider making a donation: http://www.generaldowning.org. I served 6 years in the CTC before moving to New England in 2010 for family reasons.Twitter accounts: @jjfforest @CTSS_Research @Perspectives_TSpecialties: Specialist in terrorism, counterterrorism, information warfare, WMD and sub-Saharan Africa, among a few other topics. I'm also now studying international criminal networks, and the potential areas of collaboration between them and terrorist networks. For more information, please see: http://www.jamesforest.com