Jay Mumford
Jay Mumford has earned the following degrees: associate of science (chemical engineering), bachelor of arts (political science), bachelor of science (military science), master of arts (Asian studies), and master of public administration. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Pi Alpha Alpha, and is both a Widtsoe and a Marshall scholar. He was granted the academic rank of assistant professor by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point , has completed more than 70 semester hours of postgraduate study at Penn State Harrisburg, and has been a member of the adjunct faculty for 13 years. His areas of academic and professional expertise include comparative political systems, international relations, geopolitics, American government, conflict theory, military history, the politics and economics of modernization, Russian politics, politics of the Middle East, and public administration, as well as research design and statistics.
Jay served in the intelligence branch of the U.S. Army, retiring after 30 years with the rank of full Colonel. He served in tactical and strategic intelligence positions and commanded at battalion and brigade levels. He was a faculty member on both the U.S. Naval War College and the U.S. Army War College . He has varying levels of facility in Finnish, Russian, German, Swedish, and Estonian.