Erica D. Borghard, Ph.D.

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Assistant Professor, Army Cyber Institute

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Political Science, Columbia University, 2014
M.Phil. Political Science, Columbia University, 2011
M.A. Political Science, Columbia University, 2009
B.A. Political Science and English, Columbia University, 2007

Erica D. Borghard is an Assistant Professor in the Army Cyber Institute at the United States Military Academy. Prior to that, Dr. Borghard was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. As part of her fellowship, she spent the 2017-2018 academic year on the Global Cyber Partnerships and Government Strategy team at JPMorgan Chase, and at the Cyber National Mission Force at US Cyber Command. From 2014-2017, Dr. Borghard served as an Assistant Professor and Executive Director of the Rupert H. Johnson Grand Strategy Program in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point.

Dr. Borghard received her Ph.D. in Political Science 2014 from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in a range of academic and policy outlets, including The American Political Science Review, Security Studies, Strategic Studies Quarterly, Orbis, Survival, The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Cato Institute, The Washington Post, The National Interest, and Net Politics. Dr. Borghard’s current research agenda focuses on cyber strategy, policy, and operations.

Dr. Borghard is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Research Fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.