Jon Tetsuro Sumida

Jon Sumida was born in Washington, D.C., in 1949. He graduated from Stevenson College, University of California at Santa Cruz, with a B.A. in History, in 1971. Sumida earned his Ph.D in Modern British History from the University of Chicago in 1982. He joined the history department of the University of Maryland at College Park in the fall of 1980, where he taught European and Military History through 2017. Sumida is currently a Professor Emeritus. His three monographs are IN DEFENSE OF NAVAL SUPREMACY: FINANCE, TECHNOLOGY AND BRITISH NAVAL POLICY, 1889-1914 (1989); INVENTING GRAND STRATEGY AND TEACHING COMMAND: THE CLASSIC WORKS OF ALFRED THAYER MAHAN RECONSIDERED (1997); and DECODING CLAUSEWITZ; A NEW APPROACH TO ON WAR (2008). Sumida edited a volume of documents, THE POLLEN PAPERS: THE PRIVATELY CIRCULATED PRINTED WORKS OF ARTHUR HUNGERFORD POLLEN, 1901-1916 (1984). He has published thirty articles or chapters in books, three, of which have won the Moncado Prize from the Society for Military History (SMH) and has taught as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Military Strategy and Operations

at the U.S. National War College, as a visiting lecturer at the U.S. Marine Corps School of Advanced War fighting, and as the Major General Matthew C. Horner Chair of Military Theory at the U.S. Marine Corps University. He chaired the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee. Sumida received the Dudley Knox Medal from the Naval Historical Foundation and the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the SMH.