
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