USMA Faculty Support
Executive Secretary - MAJ Jim Golby
Major Jim Golby is an
active duty officer in the United States Army and is an Instructor
of American Politics, Policy and Strategy with the Department of Social
Sciences, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY. He has served as a
cavalry officer, commanding a security company in combat in Iraq (2006-7) and
as an Army strategist. In 2008, he was
awarded the MacArthur Army leadership award and he twice has been awarded the
Bronze Star. MAJ Golby also served as a Scout Platoon Leader and Troop
Executive Officer for fifteen months during Operation Iraqi Freedom II (2004-5).
He holds a B.S. in American Government (USMA), and a Ph.D. in Political Science
from Stanford University. His dissertation, titled “Duty, Honor, Party:
Ideology, Institutions, and the Use of Military Force,” examines how domestic political
institutions structure American civil-military relations. His recent research
examines how republican states consolidate control over their military forces
and how elite military signals influence mass public opinion about political
candidates and about decisions to use military force. MAJ Golby is a Term
member at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow with the
Inter-university Seminar on Armed Forces and Society.
Civilian Faculty Advisor - Dr. Hugh Liebert
Hugh
Liebert is an Assistant Professor of American Politics, Policy, and
Strategy in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States
Military Academy. A recent John Marshall Visiting Research Fellow in
the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond in
Virginia, he received his BA from Harvard University and his MA and
Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of
Chicago. His primary areas of interest are Greek and Roman political
thought and American politics. He is the co-editor of Executive Power in Theory and Practice, and has published articles in History of Political Thought and Review of Politics. His first book, Plutarch's Politics, is currrently under review.