Associate Professor and Department Chair
Education
- D.Sc., Information Systems and Communications, Robert Morris University
- M.S., Strategic Intelligence, National Intelligence University
- M.A., Asian Studies (Chinese), University of Michigan
- B.A., Government, Lawrence University
Fred Hoffman is an Associate Professor of Intelligence Studies and Chair of the Intelligence Studies Department. Before joining the faculty at Mercyhurst, Hoffman taught as an Associate Professor of Military Science at The Johns Hopkins University, where he taught courses on national security and the intelligence community. Hoffman has more than six years of experience as a competitive intelligence professional in the private sector. He also has 30 years of experience in the military and multiple intelligence community organizations as a human intelligence officer and as a military attaché, serving in 28 different countries, including Afghanistan and the Balkans. His favorite professional experience to date: Experiencing the opening of the Berlin Wall firsthand. His least favorite experience: Being in the Pentagon when the plane struck it on Sept. 11, 2001. Hoffman is fluent in German and conversational in Mandarin Chinese and Russian.