Mark Perry

About

Mark W. Perry is the lead information warfare research analyst at the John and Mary Frances Patton Peace and War Center at Norwich University. He is also an adjunct professor at Norwich University’s Senator Leahy School of Cybersecurity and Advanced Computing, where he teaches digital threat analysis and open-source research methods. During his fellowship, Mark will advance a research project mapping “remigration” narratives and the transnational extremist networks engaged in spreading them across Europe, North America and Australasia.  

Mark has a master’s degree in international policy and development from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey and has spent the last four years teaching and conducting applied research at Norwich University. His research is grounded in political science and social cybersecurity, with a keen interest in studying the relationship between information and political behavior in international conflict..

Mark has developed a number of publications and conference presentations on information conflict and disinformation. In the Journal of Peace and War Studies (2022), he explored the linguistic structure of Russian Twitter campaigns in the Syrian civil war with Dr. Eszter Szenes (University of Adelaide). With computer scientist Arman Irani (University of California, Riverside), he analyzed Russian war-reporting in Ukraine (Journal of Information Warfare, 2024) and evaluated transnational violent extremist networks on Telegram (The Hague Program on International Cybersecurity, 2024).

Research Group: Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda (April-May 2025)