Curtis Cook taught at the Colorado College from 1983-2002. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) in 1975 and a B.S. from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in 1959. Before coming to CC, he was chair of the Department of Political Science at the Air Force Academy, where he taught from 1974 to 1982.

He is a member of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, the Atlantic Council, and the Inter-University Consortium on Armed Forces and Society. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Denver Council on Foreign Relations and of the Colorado Springs World Affairs Council. He teaches the introduction to the major as well as courses in international relations. He is the editor of Constitutional Predicament: Canada after the Referendum of 1992, published by McGill-Queen's in 1994, co-editor with Professor Lindau of Aboriginal Rights and Self-Government: Canada in North American Perspective published by McGill-Queen's in 2000, and is working on a study of the new progressivism in America.