Joseph Cerami
Senior Lecturer and Director of the Public Service Leadership Program
In August 2001, Joe Cerami joined the Bush School of Government and Public Service, at Texas A&M University, teaching National Security Studies in the Masters Program in International Affairs. He was appointed as the founding Director of the Bush School's Public Service Leadership Program in 2002. During a 30-year military career, Colonel Cerami (U.S. Army, Retired) served in Germany, the Republic of Korea and the U.S. as a Field Artillery officer, operational planner, and strategist. His last assignment was as the Chairman of the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, from 1998-2001. From 1993-1998, he served on the faculty there as Director of International Security Studies. From 1980 to 1983, he was Assistant Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Military Academy, where he taught International Relations, and Politics and Government. He has a BS in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, an MA in Government from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MMAS in Theater Operations from the School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is a graduate of the Army War College. In 1995 he was awarded a Certificate from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Program for Senior Officials in National Security. Joe completed his doctoral studies in the Penn State University's School of Public Affairs. He and James F. Holcomb, Jr., are the co-editors of the Army War College Guide to Strategy.
