Katya Drozdova

Katya Drozdova is a Professor at Seattle Pacific University’s School of Business, Government, and Economics, with a joint appointment in Business, Information Systems, and Political Science. She holds a PhD and MPhil in Information Systems from NYU Stern School of Business and MA/BA in International Relations from Stanford University.

• Expertise in cyberpower, geopolitical strategy, counterterrorism, and asymmetric threat analysis
• Principal Investigator for the Mining Afghan Lessons from Soviet Era (MALSE) program funded by the U.S. Department of Defense
• Visiting Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and affiliate with the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC)

Her research combines information theory with security studies, focusing on:

• Strategic decision-making under uncertainty
• Human and technological network optimization in hostile environments
• U.S.-Russia relations and their geopolitical implications
• Early-warning systems for terrorist network detection
• Cybersecurity policy balancing civil liberties

Recent publications analyze cyberpower (SAGE, 2017), asymmetric warfare (Journal of Cold War Studies, 2019), and geo-religious literacy in Russia (Routledge Handbook, 2022). Her work has been cited in Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory and Hoover Digest.

Key affiliations include:

• NYU’s Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy
• Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
• Consortium for Research on Information Security and Policy (CRISP) funded by NSA

Community engagements:

• Hosted Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani (2016)
• Public dialogue with General Keith Alexander (2015)
• Interview with Secretary Madeleine Albright (2014)