Terrence Sullivan

Terrence OSullivan

Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Office: Morrill Hall, Room 105b, Durham, NH 03824
Websites:
Pronouns: He/Him/His

Terry O’Sullivan, PhD, MAAS, is Department Chair and Associate Professor in the ӣ Department of Security Studies. His teaching, research, and publications concentrate in domestic and international security studies, broadly writ, including pandemic disease, environmental security and the climate/global heating crisis, emergency management and community disaster resilience, political violence, weapons of mass destruction, and the theoretical, educational, and policy/practice-level integration of homeland security and other security frameworks.

Courses Taught

  • HLS 455: Introduction to Cybersecurity
  • HLS 505: Political Violence and Terror
  • HLS 515: Infrastruct Sec & Resilience
  • HLS 580: Environmental Security
  • HLS 665: Bioterror, Biosecur, & Defense
  • HLS 695: IndStdy/HLS580:Enviro&Hmn Sec
  • HLS 760: Strat Planing & Decision Mkg
  • HLS 770: HLS Internship

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Southern California
  • M.A.A.S, Master of Arts in African Area Studies, University of California - Los Angeles
  • B.S., St. Lawrence University

Research Interests

  • Biosecurity
  • Climate change
  • Climate Change - Impacts
  • Climate Change - Mitigation
  • Cybersecurity
  • Electric/Power Grid - Security
  • Energy Security
  • Homeland Security
  • Human Dimensions of Climate Change
  • Human security
  • Infectious Diseases/Agents
  • International Security
  • National security
  • Public Health
  • Security; infrastructure protection, resilience; cyber crime, security, resilience; intelligence; law enforcement; threat assessment
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction

Selected Publications

  • O'Sullivan, T., & Ramsay, J. (2019). Energy Security. In J. Lanicci, E. H. H. Murray, & J. Ramsay (Eds.), Environmental Security Concepts, Challenges, and Case Studies. American Meteorological Society Publications.

  • O'Sullivan, T. M. (2015). Environmental Security is Homeland Security: Climate Disruption as the Ultimate Disaster Risk Multiplier. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 6(2), 183-222. doi:

  • O’Sullivan, T. M., & Ramsay, J. (2015). Defining and Distinguishing Homeland from National Security and Climate-Related Environmental Security, in Theory and Practice. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 12(1). doi:

  • O’Sullivan, T. M., & Emmelhainz, R. (2014). Reframing the Climate Change Debate to Better Leverage Policy Change: An Analysis of Public Opinion and Political Psychology. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 11(3). doi:

  • Ramsay, J. D., & O'Sullivan, T. (2013). There’s a Pattern Here”: The Search for a Theoretical Framework for Modern Homeland Security and the Case of Environmental Security”.. Homeland Security Affairs, (spring).

  • von Winterfeldt, D., & O'Sullivan, T. M. (2006). Should We Protect Commercial Airplanes Against Surface-to-Air Missile Attacks by Terrorists?. Decision Analysis, 3(2), 63-75. doi: