Briana Bowen

Briana Bowen cofounded and currently serves as adjunct faculty for the Center for Anticipatory Intelligence at Utah State University, an interdisciplinary center focused on complex emergent security issues and the first US degree-granting program in Anticipatory Intelligence. Briana stepped down as CAI’s Associate Director in 2023 to pursue a PhD in Information Security (CDT) at Royal Holloway, University of London. Briana has served as co-PI of a Minerva Research Initiative grant focused on human governance implications of emerging AI applications, supported research on multiple US federally-funded projects relating to strategic culture and security issues, and is a co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture (Routledge, 2023). Her current research and teaching focuses concentrate on anticipatory narratives around quantum computing, forecasting and foresight methodologies, weapons of mass destruction, Russian security affairs, and the US-UK ‘special relationship’. Briana holds a BA in Political Science from Utah State University and an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford.