Sarah-Jane Corke
Associate Professor
PhD
Tilley Hall 139
Fredericton
Dr. Sarah-Jane Corke (Post 1945 American History, US Foreign Relations, History of the CIA) received her Ph.D. from the University of New Brunswick in 2000. Between 2000 and 2018 Dr. Corke was a tenured faculty member at Dalhousie University. In the summer of 2018, she became an associate professor at UNB.
Dr. Corke is the co-founder and past president of the North American Society for Intelligence History, renamed The Society for Intelligence History.
Dr. Corke’s research interests lie in the examination of the domestic roots of American cold war policy. Her first book was on the history of the Central Intelligence Agency during the Truman Administration. She is currently working on a biography of John Paton and Patricia Davies. Dr. Corke was awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant in 2022 for this project, which is tentatively titled, The Nine Lives of John Paton and Patricia Grady Davies. She is also working a history of the Director of National Intelligence.
Dr. Corke recently participated in a virtual discussion with Dr. David Priess and Dr. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones at the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence on the “CIA at 75”.
Dr. Corke was very proud to participate in the forum on Women and Statecraft History put out by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Dr. Corke currently teaches courses on the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Spy in History, The History of the CIA and Watergate.
Left photo: Students playing games. Students build board games in HIST 4465: The Cuban Missile Crisis.
Right photo: Students in HIST 3462: The CIA in Historical Context take part in intelligence briefing with former CIA analyst and President’s Daily Brief (PDB) briefer David Priess.
Dr. Corke supervises MA, Ph.D. and postdoctoral students in the areas of 20th and 21st century US Foreign Relations and the history of the Central Intelligence Agency. She also has an interest in historiography and intellectual history.
Publications
Books
Mark Stout and Sarah-Jane Corke eds., Secrets on Display: Stories and Spycraft from the International Spy Museum, University of Kansas Press, June 2025.
Sarah-Jane Corke, US Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy: Truman, the CIA and Secret Warfare, Routledge, 2007.
Sarah-Jane Corke, Operacionet e fsheta të SHBA-se dhe strategjia e Luftës së Ftohtë, Tirane, Albania: 2009. (Albanian translation of the book listed above.)
Articles
Sarah-Jane Corke and Mark Stout, “Designing an Open Box of Secrets: An Introduction” Secrets on Display: Stories and Spycraft from the International Spy Museum, University of Kansas Press, June, 2025.
Cynthia Storer, Mark Stout and Sarah-Jane Corke, “Secrets, Puzzles and Mysteries: Designing Intelligence Analysis at the International Spy Museum,” Secrets on Display: Stories and Spycraft from the International Spy Museum, University of Kansas Press, June, 2025.
Mark Stout and Sarah-Jane Corke, “Conclusion,” Secrets on Display: Stories and Spycraft from the International Spy Museum, University of Kansas Press, June 2025.
Sarah-Jane Corke, “The Political is Personal: Roscoe Hillenkoetter, George Kennan, and ‘The Strange Case of John Paton Davies,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 36, no. 4 (Winter 2023): 1278-1297.
Sarah-Jane Corke, “Navigating the Personal and the Political in the Post IRTPA World: A History of America’s first DNI/DCIA,” in Richard Immerman ed., H-Diplo/RJISSF on The Future of Intelligence, Published on-line September 11, 2023.
Sarah-Jane Corke, “Seven Questions on Intelligence History,” Passport: The SHAFR Review, January 2022, p.p. 30-35.
Sarah-Jane Corke, “untitled” Women and Statecraft History: A Report of the CSIS Project on History and Strategy, eds Seth Center and Emma Bates, Washington DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, Vol. 1., (December 2020). p.p. 33-37.
Sarah-Jane Corke, “George Kennan and the ‘Inauguration of Political Warfare,’” The Journal of Conflict Studies, vol. 26, no. 1 (Summer 2006): 98-117.
Sarah-Jane Corke, “History, Historians and the Naming of Foreign Policy: A Postmodern Reflection on American Strategic Thinking During the Truman Administration,” Intelligence and National Security, vol. 16, no. 3. (Fall 2001):146-163.
Sarah-Jane Corke, “Bridging the Gap: Containment, Covert Action and the Search for the Elusive Missing Link in American Cold War Policy, 1948-1953.” The Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 20, no. 4 (December: 1997): 45-65.
