Jon T. Sumida

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Jon Tetsuro Sumida (born July 7, 1949 in Washington, DC ) is an American modern historian specializing in naval history and military strategy . He is currently a professor at the University of Maryland .

Life

Sumida is of Japanese descent . He studied European history from 1967 to 1971 at Stevenson College, University of California, Santa Cruz ( Bachelor of Arts ) and from 1972 to 1974 Modern British History at the University of Chicago ( Master of Arts ) in Chicago , Illinois . In 1982 he earned a Ph.D. in Modern British History from the University of Chicago. He also taught part-time at Chicago-based Roosevelt University (1980). From 1980 to 1982 he was a lecturer , from 1982 to 1988 Assistant Professor and from 1988 Associate Professor at the University of Maryland in College Park , Maryland . He still works at the Department of History to this day .

He was visiting professor at the Department of Military Strategy and Operations of the National War College (2000) at Fort Lesley J. McNair , Washington, DC , program director of the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (2004), member (2000–2002) or director of the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee (2003-2006) and Major General Matthew C. Horner Chair of Military Theory at Marine Corps University (2004-2006) in Quantico , Virginia , where he was visiting professor at the School of Advanced Warfighting (SAW) is.

He served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Military History and is a member of the Society for Military History , the International Naval Research Organization , the US Naval Institute, and the American Historical Association .

Sumida has been married since 1975 and has two daughters.

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He is the author of several military strategy and marine history (UK) books as well as over 30 articles and around 50 reviews. For the standard work Encyclopedia of Military Science he wrote the entries on Carl von Clausewitz and Alfred Thayer Mahan . Some of his works have won awards and been selected for the US Marine Corps Professional Reading Program .

In 2002 he debated the interpretation of Clausewitz with Clifford J. Rogers in the Journal of Military History .

Awards

Sumida has received several awards. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and Churchill College at the University of Cambridge .

  • 1993: Moncado Prize of the Society of Military History (for British Naval Operational Logistics, 1914–1918 , Journal of Military History)
  • 1995: Moncado Prize of the Society of Military History (for Sir John Fisher and the Dreadnought. The Sources of Naval Mythology , Journal of Military History)
  • 1996: U.S. Naval Institute Marine Historian of the Year (for Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution , Naval History Magazine)
  • 2004: Moncado Prize of the Society of Military History (for A Matter of Timing: The Royal Navy and the Tactics of Decisive Battle, 1912–1916 , Journal of Military History)
  • 2007: Department of the Army Outstanding Civilian Service Award
  • 2020: Samuel Eliot Morison Prize

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed.): The Pollen Papers. The Privately Circulated Printed Works of Arthur Hungerford Pollen 1901-1916 (= Publications of the Navy Records Society . Vol. 124). G. Allen & Unwin, London 1984, ISBN 0-04-942182-4 .
  • In Defense of Naval Supremacy. Finance, Technology, and British Naval Policy 1889-1914 . Unwin Hyman, Winchester, Massachusetts 1989. (Paperback 1993; new edition, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland 2014, ISBN 978-1-59114-803-6 )
  • Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command. The Classic Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan Reconsidered . The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Baltimore, Washington, DC 1997, ISBN 0-8018-5800-3 . (Paperback 1999)
  • Decoding Clausewitz. A New Approach to On War (= Modern War Studies ). University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 2008, ISBN 978-0-7006-1616-9 . (Paperback 2011)

literature

  • Amy L. Unterburger (Ed.): Who's Who Among Asian Americans 1994/95 . Gale, Detroit 1994, ISBN 0-8103-9433-2 , p. 559.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antulio J. Echevarria II: Clausewitz and Contemporary War . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-923191-1 , p. 119.
personal data
SURNAME Sumida, Jon T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sumida, Jon Tetsuro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC