FERRIS, John R - Department of History, University of Calgary

John Ferris is an internationally respected scholar of international and strategic history, and a pioneer and leader in intelligence history. Overcoming attempts by states to conceal the evidence, he demonstrated how communications intelligence worked, and shaped war and power politics, over the past two centuries. Because of his combination of thorough empirical work, and rigourous and precise study of the interactions between intelligence, perception, politics, policy and action, he has been made the Authorised Historian of the British communications intelligence agency, Government Communications Headquarters.