Prof. Field is the Director of Rutgers Center for Critical Intelligence Studies, and faculty advisor for the minor in Critical Intelligence Studies. He has been teaching in the Poltical Science Department since 2005 and recently concluded his time as Undergraduate Program Director in 2024. He received his PhD from Brandeis University and BA in Government from Connecticut College. While in graduate school he studied at Nuffield College, Oxford, England and at the University of Bonn in then-West Germany as an undergraduate.