GENE Catalog (aka Grey Book): Class of 2010 - West Point

COL LAUREL J. HUMMEL
Associate Professor and Program Director,
Geography
Ph.D., University of Colorado, 2002
M.S.S., US Army War College, 2006
M.Ed., University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999
M.S., Pennsylvania State University, 1991
B.S., United States Military Academy, 1982
Chief, Operations Intelligence Division and
Joint Intelligence Support Element,
Intelligence Directorate, Alaskan Command,
PACOM, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska,
1996-2000
S-3, 102d Military Intelligence Battalion, 2d
Infantry Division, ROK, 1995-1996
Instructor and Assistant Professor, Department of
Geography and Environmental Engineering,
USMA, 1991-1994
Company Commander, S-1, and S-2, 224 th Military Intelligence Battalion (Aerial Exploitation),
525 th Military Intelligence Brigade (ABN), Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, 1986-1989
Chief, Intelligence Plans and Production, and Tactical Intelligence Officer, 24 th Infantry Division
G-2, Fort Stewart, Georgia, 1985-1986
Platoon Leader and Company XO, 124 th Military Intelligence Battalion, 24 th Infantry Division,
Fort Stewart, Georgia, 1983-1985
COL Hummel has spent the majority of her military career in the fields of tactical, imagery, and
strategic intelligence, in Army field units and the joint arena. She is a graduate of the US Army
War College, the US Army Command and General Staff College and is a Joint Service Officer.
As a member of the USMA faculty, she has taught Physical Geography, Geography of Global
Cultures, Geomorphology, Geography of North America, and the Honors Seminar in Geography.
COL Hummel is primarily a human geographer with interests in landscape studies, geography in
higher education, and environmental security and the formulation of national security policy. She
has conducted research, lectured, and published across a diverse spectrum of interests, including:
the US military’s influence upon the cultural and environmental landscape, infusing geography in
K-12 public education, population increase and regional instability in sub-Saharan Africa,
gendered aspects of transformational leadership, and the patterns of decline and resurgence
among small towns in Appalachia. As an Alaskan, COL Hummel maintains a regional interest in
the geography of Alaska, and specifically the many effects of the militarization of Alaska on
Alaskan demographics, development, and culture. �
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