COL Chris Fuhriman

Chris Fuhriman is an Aviation officer with experience in general support battalions, training battalions, and operational assignments in Afghanistan and Korea. He commanded a training company in the Army’s Initial Entry Rotary Wing Course (UH-60A/L), where he served as a Black Hawk instructor pilot. He deployed to Afghanistan as a Security Force Assistance advisor to the Afghan Border Police and as the Deputy Director of the Lwara Border Coordination Center in eastern Paktika Province. Colonel Fuhriman is a human geographer with research interests in military geography, terrorism and political conflict, GIS battlefield analysis, Israel and the Middle East, and East Asia. His doctoral research focused on the development of a new theoretical approach to understanding the territorial aspirations of terrorist organizations. Chris is the Deputy Head of the Geography and Earth Sciences Department and teaches Physical Geography (EV203), Geographic Research Methods (EV367), and Military Geography (EV482). He has also taught Geography of Asia (EV372), Geography of Latin America (EV373), and Colloquium in Geography (EV483).