Judith Hicks Stiehm

Professor, Department of Political Science
Florida International University
University Park Campus,
SIPA 430
Miami, Florida 33199
Voice: (310) 451-2681
stiehmj@fiu.edu

JUDITH HICKS STIEHM is Professor of Political Science at Florida International University where she served as Provost and Academic Vice President for four years. Her specialties include political theory, social change, the status of women, and civil-military relations. She has taught at San Francisco State, the University of Wisconsin, UCLA, and the University of Southern California where she served as Vice Provost. She has been a Visiting Professor at the U.S. Army Peacekeeping Institute and at the Strategic Studies Institute at Carlisle Barracks. In 2010-11 she served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. She earned a BA in East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, an MA at Temple University in American History, and a PhD in Political Theory from Columbia University.

Her books include Nonviolent Power: Active and Passive Resistance (Heath, 1972), Bring Me Men and Women: Mandated Change at the U.S. Air Force Academy (California, 1981), Arms and the Enlisted Woman (Temple, 1989), It's Our Military Too!: Women and the US Military (Temple, 1996), U.S. Army War College: Military Education in a Democracy (Temple, 2002), and Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel Prize for Peace (Boulder: Rowman and Littlfield, 2006).

Professor Stiehm has served on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Military, the California Postsecondary Education Commission, the California Vocational Education Commission, as a consultant to the United Nations Commission for the Advancement of Women and to the Lessons Learned Unit of the United Nations' Department of Peacekeeping Operations. She has appeared as an Expert Witness before the Senate Armed Services Committee and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has been awarded the U.S. Army Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, the University of Wisconsin Distinguished Alumni Award (2006), the American Political Science Association's Frank Goodnow Award (2008), and the FIU Worlds Ahead Faculty Award (2013). She appears in Who's Who.

Links to my books: Browse the table of contents of each book by clicking on the cover below.


The U.S. Military: A Basic Introduction

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It's Our Military Too!: Women and the U.S. Military

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Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective in Multidimensional
                 Peace Operations

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Arms and the Enlisted Woman

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The US Army War College: Military Education in a Democracy

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Nonviolent Power: Active and Passive Resistance in America

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Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

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Bring Me Men & Women: Mandated Change at the
               U.S. Air Force Academy

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Inside Defense: Understanding the US Military in the
          21st Century

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Teaching The Military:
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