Judith Stiehm

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| birth_date = October 9, 1935

| birth_place = Madison, Wisconsin, US

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Judith Hicks Stiehm (born October 9, 1935) is an American political scientist. She is a professor of political science at Florida International University. She studies civil-military relations in the United States, processes of social change, and the status of women. She has published books on the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance, the results of mandated orders to admit women to the United States Air Force Academy, and the functioning of the U.S. Army War College. She was the first woman to be a university provost in State University System of Florida.

Education and positions

Stiehm attended the University of Wisconsin, where she earned a BA degree in East Asian Studies.{{cite web |url=http://faculty.fiu.edu/~stiehmj/ |title=Judith Hicks Stiehm Profile |publisher=Florida International University |access-date=27 May 2020}} She then graduated from Temple University with an MA in American history, and in 1969 she obtained a PhD in political theory from Columbia University.

Stiehm has held positions at San Francisco State University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California, where she served as the vice provost. She has also held visiting or temporary positions at The U.S. Army Peacekeeping Institute and at the Strategic Studies Institute at Carlisle Barracks, and was a distinguished visiting professor at the United States Air Force Academy.

Stiehm has served as the provost and academic vice president of Florida International University. She was the first woman to be the provost of Florida International University, and as of 2019 she had been the only one.{{cite news |url=https://news.fiu.edu/2019/women-in-fiu-history-a-compendium |title=Women in FIU history: a compendium |work=Florida International University Campus & Community |first=Alexandra |last=Pecharich |date=8 January 2019 |access-date=27 May 2020}} This made her the first woman to be a provost in the State University System of Florida.

Research

In 1972, Stiehm published the book Nonviolent Power: Active and Passive Resistance. In Nonviolent Power, Stiehm studies the uses of nonviolent resistance and its potential as a tool for social change, focusing on how its use is misunderstood and what the characteristics of successful nonviolent resistance are.{{cite journal |first=Karen |last=Johnson |title=Review Nonviolent Power: Active and Passive Resistance |journal=The American Political Science Review |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=333–334 |date=1 March 1977 |doi=10.2307/1956989|jstor=1956989 }} She discusses the history of nonviolent resistance in American politics, then studies the connection between nonviolent resistance and other doctrines on the just uses of violence, and the role of nonviolence in a democracy.{{cite journal |first=Lane |last=Davis |title=Review Nonviolent Power: Active and Passive Resistance |journal=The Western Political Quarterly |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=338–340 |date=1 June 1974 |doi=10.2307/447772|jstor=447772 }}

Stiehm has also published multiple books on the situation of women in the U.S. military: she authored Bring Me Men and Women: Mandated Change at the U.S. Air Force Academy (1981) and Arms and the Enlisted Woman (1989), and edited It's Our Military Too!: Women and the US Military (1996).{{cite journal |first=Laura |last=Flanders |title=Review It's Our Military Too!: Women and the US Military |journal=The Women's Review of Books |volume=14 |issue=9 |pages=21 |date=1 June 1997|doi=10.2307/4022631 |jstor=4022631 }} Bring Me Men and Women studies the mandated introduction of women cadets into the United States Air Force Academy and the institution's response to that change.{{cite journal |first=Judith A. |last=Baer |author-link=Judith A. Baer |title=Review Bring Me Men and Women: Mandated Change at the U.S. Air Force Academy |journal=The American Political Science Review |volume=76 |issue=3 |pages=675 |date=1 September 1982 |doi=10.2307/1963768|jstor=1963768 }} Arms and the Enlisted Woman studies the situation of women in the United States military and makes specific recommendations to increase their involvement in military planning and operations, and was published at a time when this was a strong contrast with the military's approach.{{cite journal |first=P. A. |last=Roos |title=Review Arms and the Enlisted Woman |journal=Science |volume=250 |issue=4986 |pages=1455–1456 |date=7 December 1990 |doi=10.1126/science.250.4986.1455|pmid=17754991 }}

In 2002, she wrote U.S. Army War College: Military Education in a Democracy. This book is a detailed description of the history, classes, faculty, and administration of The U.S. Army War College, drawn from a year that Stiehm spent as an observer there, which makes recommendations for improvements to the functioning of the college.{{cite journal |first=Bill |last=Brown |title=Review The U.S. Army War College: Military Education in a Democracy |journal=Naval War College Review |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=160–161 |date=1 April 2003}}

In 2006, Stiehm published the book Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel Prize for Peace. The book is motivated by the apparent contradiction that peacemaking has traditionally been portrayed as a feminine activity, and yet by that point only 12 women had won the Nobel Peace Prize in more than 100 years.{{cite journal |first=Erika |last=Kuhlman |title=Review Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize |journal=Peace & Change |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=463–466 |date=July 2008 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0130.2008.00513.x}} In Champions for Peace, Stiehm writes a biographical sketch of each of those 12 winners, studying the varied backgrounds that led women to become highly successful advocates for peace.

Stiehm received the 2008 Frank J. Goodnow Award from The American Political Science Association, which is awarded to recognize "outstanding service to the political science community and to the Association".{{cite news |title=Jan Leighley — 2019 Frank J. Goodnow Award Recipient |url=https://politicalsciencenow.com/jan-leighley-2019-frank-j-goodnow-award-recipient/ |publisher=American Political Science Association |date=26 August 2019 |work=Political Science Now |access-date=7 March 2020}} She also holds the U.S. Army Distinguished Civilian Service Medal.

Stiehm has published work related to her research in media outlets like The Washington Post,{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-rules-that-guided-janet-renos-life/2016/11/07/efbb9464-a519-11e6-8fc0-7be8f848c492_story.html |title=The rules that guided Janet Reno's life |work=The Washington Post |first=Judith |last=Stiehm |date=7 November 2016 |access-date=27 May 2020}} and her work has been cited in outlets including The National Interest{{cite news |url=https://nationalinterest.org/article/the-gap-1207 |title=Mini Teaser: The directors of an ambitious project on civil-military relations detail their findings and plumb the divide between soldiers and civilians. |work=The National Interest |author1=Peter D. Feaver |author2=Richard H. Kohn |access-date=27 May 2020}} and Lawfare.{{cite news |url=https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/national-commission-public-service-right-endorse-womens-draft-registration |title=The National Commission on Public Service Is Right to Endorse Women's Draft Registration |work=Lawfair |first=Max Z. |last=Margulies |date=27 March 2020 |access-date=27 May 2020}}