Joel Radunzel

LTC Joel Radunzel

Assistant Professor

Course Director - EV203 Physical Geography

Military Advisor - Center for the Study of Civil-Military Operations

Geography & Earth Sciences

joel.radunzel [at] westpoint.edu
LTC Joel Radunzel has served in a diverse slate of assignments including Airborne, Stryker, and Armored units, worked at echelons from Platoon to Division headquarters, and deployed to Iraq, Haiti, Afghanistan, and Eastern Europe. Most recently he was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas. LTC Radunzel is a geographer with expertise in the history of military cartography, military geography, and the environmental costs of war. His research interests center on developing a history of the US Army’s tactical cartography during the First World War, which supports the U.S. Army’s development of doctrine and command and control of tactical units, as well as developing a theoretical framework to assist military geography research. LTC Radunzel teaches EV203 Physical Geography and has also taught EV365 Geography of Global Cultures.

B.S in Human Regional Geography - U.S. Military Academy

M.A. in Geography - Syracuse University

Ph.D. in Geography - Kansas State University