Dr. Stephen Paul Mumme obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of Arizona in 1982. He is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Colorado State University, where he specializes in comparative environmental politics and policy with an emphasis on U.S.-Mexican water and environmental relations. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Arizona’s Guadalajara Summer Program, the American Graduate School for International Management, El Colegio de San Luis Potosi, El Colegio de Sonora, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez, and CLE International. He is a Non-Resident Research Scholar with the Mexico Center at the James Baker Institute for Policy Studies at Rice University and an affiliate faculty member of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University.  Since 2010 he has served as the elected Co-President or President of the American Association of University Professors Colorado Conference. His most recent book, Border Water: The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945-2015, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2023.