Professors Loughlin and Smith at Roundtable on South Asia and American National Security

On Oct. 6, Dr. Michael B. Loughlin, professor of history, and Dr. David R. Smith, associate professor of geography, participated in a roundtable on South Asia and American national security with the faculty of Heidelberg University, guests from other regional universities, and two sitting CIA and Department of State analysts and officers.

The main speakers at the roundtable were John Collinge, a former foreign service officer, and Zandra Flemister, a former special agent in the U.S. Secret Service.

Collinge was a career CIA analyst who for the past several years has been with the agency’s Historic Collections Division. In that capacity, he has been a key part of the agency’s declassification effort in general and of its contributions to the Department of State’s Foreign Relations of the U.S. (FRUS) series.

Flemister is currently a member of the Senior Foreign Service in the Department of State with tours in Argentina, Pakistan, Spain, London, South Korea, and, most recently, again in Pakistan as consul general. She is currently assigned to the Terrorist Screening Center in Washington, D.C., as its deputy director.