LTC Joel Radunzel Assistant Professor Course Director - EV203 Physical Geography Military Advisor - Center for the Study of Civil-Military Operations Geography and Environmental Engineering joel.radunzel [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications 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 Research Interests Military Geography, History of Cartography, War and the Environment Current Research Military geography as a subfield of political geography, Tactical cartography in during the Great War, Environmental costs of military operations Selected Publications Radunzel, J. (2024) Map rooms and cartographic sections: the tactical mapmaking of the American expeditionary force in the Great War. International Journal of Cartography, 1-22.Dzwonczyk, J. and Radunzel, J. (2020) The past and future of land warfare in the High North. The Strategy Bridge, https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2020/5/5/the-past-and-future-of-landwarfare-in-the-high-north.Radunzel, J. (2019) Mapping for history: the influence of the 7th Field Survey Company’s 1917 operation maps on the historiography of the 3rd Battle of Gaza. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 46:6, 502-517.Radunzel, J. (2015) Using the right tool: David Woodward’s suggested framework and the study of military cartography. Cartographic Perspectives 81: 23-37.