COL Chris Fuhriman

Associate Professor

Geography Program Director

Geography and Environmental Engineering

christopher.fuhriman [at] westpoint.edu
COL 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. COL 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. COL Fuhriman is the Geography Program Director 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).

Ph.D. in Geography - University of Utah

M.A. in Geography - University of Hawaii at Manoa

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

Research Interests

Military geography, terrorism and political violence, Middle East, Asia

Current Research

Fuhriman, C. A Geographic Analysis of the Battle of the Valley of Tears, Golan Heights, 1973.

Selected Publications

Copeland, P., A. Pytlar, and C. Fuhriman. (2022). The Battle of Takur Ghar: a Geographic Analysis. Middle States Geographer, 54: 67-76.

Rose-Redwood, R. E. Sheppard, G. Pratt, S. M. Roberts, M. R. Read, C. Fuhriman, and E. Yeh. (2022). Ethics and the Geography-Military Nexus: Responses to Wainwright and Weaver. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2022.2042182 Fuhriman, C. R. M. Medina, and S. Brewer. (2020). Introducing a Dataset of Multi-Scale Geographies of ISIS Ideology from ISIS Sources. Terrorism and Political Violence, DOI:10.1080/09546553.2020.1742707.