Jason Ross Arnold

Jason Ross Arnold, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Chair

(804) 828-2076

Founders Hall, 827 West Franklin Street, Room 302

A.I. Governance and Ethics

Information technology and politics

Foreign influence operations

Counterintelligence

Comparative Politics

Education

  • Ph.D., Political Science, University of Minnesota
  • M.A., Political Science, University of Minnesota
  • M.S., Political Science, University of Oregon
  • B.A., Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Interests

  • A.I. governance and ethics
  • Information technology and politics
  • Foreign influence operations
  • Counterintelligence

Select Publications

  • Foreign Communist Involvement in El Salvador's War: The White Paper Reconsidered, Journal of Cold War Studies [forthcoming]
  • Source Alerts Can Reduce the Harms of Foreign Disinformation (with Alexandra Reckendorf and Amanda Wintersieck), Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
  • Whistleblowers, Leakers, and Their Networks: From Snowden to Samizdat, Rowman & Littlefield (Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series)
  • Secrecy in the Sunshine Era: The Promise and Failures of U.S. Open Government Laws, University Press of Kansas

Affiliations

  • Southern Political Science Association

Courses

  • A.I. Governance and Ethics
  • Secrecy, Surveillance, Spies, and Lies
  • Senior Seminar
  • Comparative Politics

Awards

  • VCU Transformative Learning Fund: VIP Awards, 2023
  • VCU Global Education Office Partnership Award, 2023
  • VCU CHS Seed Award, 2019