Biography - James P Werbaneth

A life-long Pittsburgher, Jim Werbaneth received his formal education Shady Side Academy and Duquesne University, where he earned BA and MA degrees in political science in 1982 and 1985 respectively. For the latter, his thesis was titled The Ideological Foundations of the Salvadoran Revolution, examining the FMLN insurgents.

His career includes over eight and a half years in the financial services industry, including work in letters of credit, purchasing and project oversight.

Additionally, he has been a free-lance writer, specializing in military history and conflict simulations, since 1985, and continues to work as a free-lance wargame designer and developer. Since 1991, Jim has also published Line of Departure, and independent journal covering board and computer wargames.

He is a five-time winner of the Charles S. Roberts Award, once as a wargame designer and four times as publisher of Line of Departure. He also holds two information technology certifications and is a licensed life and health insurance agent.

In addition to the APUS system, Jim is a brick and mortar adjunct instructor in political science and history at La Roche College, including La Roche's program for Advanced Placement high school students. Starting in the summer 2011, he began teaching a series of online undergraduate military history classes as well. Finally, he has conducted several workshops and presentations, including one on online teaching as a career option, for the Career Development Center of Jewish Family and Childrens Services in Pittsburgh.

In 2010 and 2011, he visited the Netherlands and worked with the city council and government of Sittard-Geleen, a city of over 100,000 people. There, he gave presentations on the American political experience, and studied the Dutch system of local government.

Then at the end of July 2011, Jim attended the Conference of Army Historians, sponsored by the United States Army's Center of Military History, and presented a paper on the War of 1812 titled Counterproductive Distractions: Britain's American Diversion in the Pursuit of Victory Over Revolutionary and Napoleonic France. He followed that up in 2012, presenting a paper on British strategy toward New York and New England to the War of 1812 bicentennial conference staged by the New York Military Affairs Symposium, in Manhattan.

 
 

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