Melissa Graves

Dr. Melissa Graves is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Intelligence Studies at The Citadel, where she teaches intelligence analysis, intelligence history, national security law, and ethics. Her research examines intelligence institutions under stress, irregular threats, and the relationship between analytic tradecraft and policymaking. She is the author of Nixon’s FBI: Hoover, Watergate, and a Bureau in Crisis and coauthor of Introduction to Intelligence Studies (3rd ed.). She designs and directs annual analytic wargames that assess future national security threats by bringing together students, academic, government, and private-sector participants.