LTC Joel Radunzel, Ph.D.

LTC Joel Radunzel is an assistant professor and EV203 Physical Geography course director with the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences at West Point. He also serves as a military advisor for the Center for the Study of Civil-Military Operations.

He has served in a diverse slate of assignments, including airborne, Stryker and armored units. He has 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 U.S. Army’s tactical cartography during World War I, which supports the Army’s development of doctrine and command and control of tactical units, as well as developing a theoretical framework to assist military geography research.