Judith Stiehm

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. 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. This made her the first woman to be a provost in the State University System of Florida. 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.

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). 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. 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.

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.

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. 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. She also holds the U.S. Army Distinguished Civilian Service Medal. and her work has been cited in outlets including The National Interest and Lawfare.

Selected works Nonviolent Power: Active and Passive Resistance (1972) Bring Me Men and Women: Mandated Change at the U.S. Air Force Academy (1981) Arms and the Enlisted Woman (1989) U.S. Army War College: Military Education in a Democracy (2002) Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel Prize for Peace (2006)

Selected awards Frank J. Goodnow Award, American Political Science Association U.S. Army Distinguished Civilian Service Medal