Biography - Christina M Schweiss

Christina Schweiss is an active duty Lieutenant Colonel in the Strategist branch of the United States Army. She was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Signal Corps in 1992 upon graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems. Her military career took her to Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Gordon, Georgia; Haiti and Germany before returning to school to earn her Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. LTC Schweiss was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point for 3 1/2 years, where she taught International Relations, Comparative Politics, European Politics, Conflict and Negotiations, and her nationally recognized stability operations course, "Winning the Peace." In 2005, she was selected above all other West Point professors and awarded the Apgar Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Superintendent. She is co-editor of the book Old Europe, New Security: Evolution for a Complex World; and is also the published author of three book chapters and a journal article. LTC Schweiss most recently completed an assignment as the Interagency Branch Chief at the Joint Irregular Warfare Center at US Joint Forces Command, and she is now assigned as in instructor for the Joint and Combined Warfighting School at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, the "southern campus" of National Defense University. She is recognized throughout the Department of Defense as an expert in interagency collaboration and was called to Iraq in 2008 to assist General Petraeus with the creation of a Joint Interagency Task Force. LTC Schweiss became an adjunct faculty member at APUS in 2009.