Filip Kovacevic

Filip Kovacevic is an adjunct professor in the Departments of Politics and Global Studies. Born in Kotor, Montenegro, Prof. Kovacevic has lectured and taught across Europe, the Balkans, the former USSR, and the U.S., including two years at Smolny College, the first liberal arts college in Russia, operating under the auspices of St. Petersburg State University. He received fellowships from the Open Society Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Prof. Kovacevic is a Treasurer for the Society for Intelligence History (SIH) and a Regional Director for the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE).

Prof. Kovacevic specializes in Russian and Eurasian intelligence history and spy fiction and is involved in the analytic study and translation of documents from the KGB archives. He has contributed to the Wilson Center's Cold War International History Program. He is the author of KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press, 2025),  Liberating Oedipus? Psychoanalysis as Critical Theory (Lexington Books, 2006) as well as numerous articles in academic journals, magazines, and newspapers.

• University of Missouri-Columbia, PhD

• “Glorified Images of Soviet State Security and Intelligence Services: A Survey of Books Published in Putin’s Russia,” Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4, 135-173 (2024)
• “Vladimir Lenin as James Bond: The Fiction of Zoya Voskresenskaya-Rybkina” in Martin D. Brown, Ronald J. Granieri, and Muriel Blaive, eds. The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon. London and New York: Routledge, 2023, pp. 147-162.
• “Intelligence Services in Kazakhstan,” in Bob de Graaff, ed. Intelligence Communities and Cultures in Asia and the Middle East, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2020, pp. 177-196.
• “How Russia Trains Its Spies: The Past and Present of Russian Intelligence Education” in Liam Gearon, ed. The Routledge International Handbook of Universities, Security, and Intelligence Studies, London and New York: Routledge, 2019, pp. 187-195.
• “Is Former KGB Officers’ Spy Fiction Worth Reading? Three Case Studies,” Études Française de Renseignement et de Cyber (EFRC), No. 3, 69-86 (2024)
• “Resisting the KGB Mythmakers: Willy Fisher, Spy Fiction, and the Myth of Rudolf Abel,” Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 39, No. 2, 298-311 (2024)
• “’An Ominous Talent’: Oleg Gribanov and KGB Counterintelligence,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Vol. 36, No. 3, 785-815 (2023)
• “Ian Fleming's Soviet Rival: Roman Kim and Soviet Spy Fiction During the Early Cold War,” Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 37, No. 4, 593-606 (2022)
• “Nikolay Dolgopolov: The Storyteller of Soviet Intelligence History,” Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 36, No. 5, 745-753 (2021)
• “The FSB Literati: The First Prize Winners of the Russian Federal Security Service Literature Award Competition, 2006-2018,” Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 34, No. 5, 637-653 (2019)
• “The Ex-Yugoslav States and the 2015 Refugee/Migrant Crisis: Victims or Opportunists?” Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review, Vol. 45: 54-70 (2017)
• “On Power and Time: Reflections on The Fortress by Mesa Selimovic,” Eastern European Politics & Societies, Vol. 25, No. 3, 640-652 (2011)