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Military Historians are People, Too!S5E24 Amanda Nagel - US Army Command and General Staff CollegeWe return to the CGSC well with an in-person, in-the-studio chat with Amanda Nagel, the pride of Strasburg, North Dakota, and currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Military History at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Ft.Leavenworth, Kansas. Amanda was in Statesboro to deliver the keynote address for the opening of Brian's fantastic exhibit More Than A Name in the Georgia Southern University Library, which documents the service of African American soldiers from Bulloch County, Georgia, who served in the First World War (it was a great event!). As an expert on African...2025-04-221h 09
Military Historians are People, Too!S5E22 Jonathan Carroll - Royal Military Academy, SandhurstOur guest today is the Irish Texan - Jonathan Carroll of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst! Born and raised in County Kildare, Jonathan joined the Irish Army at 17, serving in the Reserve for over twelve years. Along the way, he earned his BA in Civil Law and an MA in Military History and Strategic Studies at Maynooth University, then made the bold move to work with Friend-of-the-Pod Brian Linn at Texas A&M (where his dissertation won the Society for Military History's Edward M. Coffman Award). Jonathan has published in The Journal of Military History, Defence Forces Review...2025-04-011h 05
Military Historians are People, Too!S5E14 Susie Cooper - Battlefield Guide, UKToday's guest became a free-lance battlefield tour guide after a career in the Royal Corps of Signals that included tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now a captain in the Army Reserve, Susie Cooper took a love of military history and battlefield staff rides to a post-military career taking everyone from school children to military officers on battlefield tours in the UK and Europe. She does tours for CGT Battlefield Tours, Anglia Tours, In the Gootsepts, Sopue's Great War Tours, Battle Honors, and The Cultural Experience (where she teams with Bill for an AMAZING Vietnam tour!), as well as field...2025-01-281h 07
Military Historians are People, Too!S5E13 Tim Grady - University of ChesterToday's guest is First World War and German historian Tim Grady of Chester University. Tim has done ground-breaking work on Jewish German soldiers in the First World War and is now looking at the care and burial of POW dead. His books include A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War (Yale), and his forthcoming Burying the Enemy: The Story of Those Who Cared for the Dead from the Two World Wars (also from Yale) promises to be an important work. We'll talk growing up in Seaford on the south coast of England, German archives ( sorry - he...2025-01-211h 03
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E20 Jennifer Murray - Oklahoma State UniversityToday’s guest is the amazing teacher, Civil War historian, and former Gettysburg battlefield guide Dr. Jennnifer Murray. Jennifer is a teaching associate professor of history at Oklahoma State University and was formerly an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia at Wise and served as a historian in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Jennifer was also, for several summers, a seasonal ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park and has led hundreds of battlefield tours. She earned a BS at Frostburg State University and an MA from James Madison University before being awarded a PhD fr...2024-03-051h 09
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E16 Grant Harward - US Army Center of Military HistoryToday's guest is a historian of the Romanian military experience Grant Thomas Harward. Grant is a historian with the US Army Center of Military History in Washington, DC. Before going to Ft. McNair, Grant was a historian with the US Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage in San Antonio. He received his BA in History from Brigham Young University, then took an MA at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He completed his PhD at Texas A&M University, under Friend-of-the-Pod and brisket coneseur Roger Reese.
Grant is the author of Romania's Holy War: Soldiers...2024-02-061h 17
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E15 Sandra Suárez García - University of GranadaOur guest today takes into the world of women and war in Habsburg Spain. Sandra Suárez García is a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Modern and American History at the University of Granada in Spain. She studied History as an undergraduate at the University of Santiago de Compostela before earning two MA degrees at the University of Granada. She earned her PhD in History and Arts at Granada with a dissertation titled "Aristocratic Property in the Kingdom of Granada (13th-16th centuries): The Vega and the Periurban Surroundings of the Capital." Her current project, "Wo...2024-01-301h 12
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E14 Tony Cowan - First World War ScholarOur guest today is former British diplomat and First World War scholar Dr. Tony Cowan. While in the Foreign Service, Tony held postings to Beijing, Hong Kong, Brussels, and The Hague. He was educated at Oxford, and following his retirement, he earned a PhD in military history from Kings College, London.
Tony’s publications include ‘The Introduction of New German Defensive Tactics in 1916-1917’ in the British Journal for Military History and “A Picture of German Unity? Federal Contingents in the German Army, 1916-1917’, in Jonathan Krause, ed., The Greater War: Other Combatants and Other Fronts, 1914–1918 (Palgrave Macmillan...2024-01-231h 14
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E13 Clifford Rogers - US Military Academy at West PointToday’s guest is historian and closet economist Clifford J. Rogers. Cliff is Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Before arriving in West Point, he was a Fulbright fellow at the Institute for Historical Research in London and an Olin Fellow in Military and Strategic History at Yale. He was also a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Wales, Swansea. Cliff triple-majored in Economics, History, and Policy Studies for his BA at Rice University, and earned his MA and PhD in History from The Ohio State University.
Cliff is the au...2023-12-121h 02
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E12 Roger Reese - Texas A&M UniversityToday's guest is Russian/Soviet historian and maroon-blooded Aggie Roger Reese! Roger is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Texas A&M University. He specializes in the social history of the Imperial Russian and Soviet militaries and has written seven books on the Russian armed forces. He received his BA in history from Texas A&M and moved to Austin to earn his MA and PhD from the University of Texas. Following his commissioning from Texas A&M, Roger served in the United States Army from 1981-1984.
Roger's many books include Stalin's Reluctant Soldiers...2023-12-051h 12
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E11 Philipp Stelzel - Duquesne UniversityToday's guest is the highly intellectual and equally highly satirical Philipp Stelzel. Philipp is an Associate Professor of History and Graduate Director for History at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Before finding his academic home at Duquesne, Philipp taught at Duke University and Boston College, and also served as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Munich. He earned his BA in History from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich, an MA in History from Columbia University, and a PhD in Modern European Transnational and Global History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel H...2023-11-2858 min
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E10 Andrew Wiest - University of Southern MississippiOur guest to the generous and brilliant Andrew A. Wiest. Andy is a Distinguished Professor of History and Founding Director of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is also the current General Buford "Buff" Blount Professor of Military History from 2023-2025 at USM. He served as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Warfighting Strategy at the United States Air Force Air War College and a Visiting Senior Lecturer in the War Studies Department at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, England. Andy received his BS and MA...2023-11-141h 13
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E09 Matthew Ford - Swedish Defence UniversityToday's guest is the in-demand Radical War guy, Matthew Ford! Matthew Ford is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor specializing in war and security at the Swedish Defence University (the Försvarshögskolan) in Stockholm. A former West Point fellow and visiting scholar at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, Matthew is an Honorary Historical Consultant for the Royal Armouries Museum. He was a Strategic Analyst for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at the UK Ministry of Defence and served as Deputy Head and Director of Teaching and Learning at the School of Global Studies at the Un...2023-11-071h 19
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E08 Jason Herbert - Historians at the Movies PodcastToday's guest is the energetic and enthusiastic Jason Herbert. Jason is a Tribal Liaison with the United States Forest Service in Colorado. He is also the creator and host of Historians at the Movies, a podcast that features historians talking about movies ranging from Pretty Woman to Con Air. Jason is an experienced high-school teacher, having taught US History, World History, and economics at the Pine School and the Highlands Career Institute in Florida. He also served as an ethnographer for the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Jason received his PhD in History from the University of Minnesota, where he...2023-10-311h 14
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E07 Robert Brigham - Vassar CollegeWhether this is your first Military Historians are People, Too, or you are a long-time listener, you are in for an amazing story with today's guest, Robert K. Brigham. Bob is Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations and Faculty Director of the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Vassar College. Bob also taught at Southern Vermont College and the University of Kentucky. He earned his BA from SUNY College at Brockport, an MA from the University of Rhode Island, and his PhD from the University of Kentucky, directed by the late George Herring.
Bob...2023-10-241h 02
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E06 Sarah Myers - Messiah UniversityOur guest today is Sarah Parry Myers, author of the new book Earning Their Wings: The WASPS of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition (UNC Press). Sarah is an Associate Professor of History at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. She joined the faculty at Messiah after spending three years at St. Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, where she also served as the director of the Keirn Family World War II Museum. She received her BA in History Education at the University of Missouri-Rolla and an MA in History at Missouri State. Sarah completed her PhD at...2023-10-171h 13
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E05 Joy Porter - University of HullToday's guest is the delightful Joy Porter. Joy is Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History at the University of Hull. She is a principal investigator of the Treatied Spaces Research Group and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow. Joy is also the principal investigator for the Arts and Humanities Research Council's project "Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Iroquois and the British Crown." Joy was a Fulbright Scholar at Dartmouth College and has also held visiting professorships at Paris Diderot University and The Clinton Institute, Dublin. She started her career as a Senior Lecturer at Anglia...2023-10-101h 13
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E04 Samuel Fury Childs Daly - Duke UniversityOur guest today is the introspective yet outgoing Samuel Fury Childs Daly. Sam is an Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, History, and International Comparative Studies at Duke University. From 2016-17, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Historical Analysis at Rutgers University. Sam earned his BA in African Studies and History at Columbia University, an MA in Historical Research Methods from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and an M Phil in African Studies from King’s College, University of Cambridge. He returned to the US to complete hi...2023-10-031h 07
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E03 Thijs Brocades Zaalberg - Universiteit LeidenOur guest today is Netherlander Thijs Brocades Zaalberg! Thijs is a University Lecturer at the Universiteit Leiden and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Military Sciences at the Netherlands Defense Academy in Breda. Before moving to Leiden, Thijs worked at the Netherlands Insitute of Military History in The Hague. He is currently the coordinator for the project Comparing Extreme Violence in the Wars of Decolonization, 1945-1962, at the Netherlands Insitute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Thijs earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Groningen, spent a year at Trinity College, Dublin, and then took his...2023-09-281h 17
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E03 Thijs Brocades Zaalberg - Universiteit LeidenOur guest today is Netherlander Thijs Brocades Zaalberg! Thijs is a University Lecturer at the Universiteit Leiden and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Military Sciences at the Netherlands Defense Academy in Breda. Before moving to Leiden, Thijs worked at the Netherlands Insitute of Military History in The Hague. He is currently the coordinator for the project Comparing Extreme Violence in the Wars of Decolonization, 1945-1962, at the Netherlands Insitute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Thijs earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Groningen, spent a year at Trinity College, Dublin, and then took...2023-09-261h 18
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E02 Susan Grayzel - Utah State UniversityOur guest today is First World War gas mask aficionado Susan R. Grayzel. Sue is Professor of History at Utah State University. Before joining the faculty at USU, Sue was Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, where she also served as the Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies. Sue received her BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and earned an MA and PhD in History at the University of California at Berkeley. She has spent time Across the Pond as the UK Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Leeds...2023-09-191h 10
Military Historians are People, Too!S4E01 Paul Huddie - University College, DublinTo kick off Season 4, we welcome to The Pod Paul Huddie of University College, Dublin. Paul is a European Research Council Project Manager at University College, Dublin, for European Research Council initiatives, including the Age of Civil Wars project. He is also a member of the UCD Centre for War Studies. He previously served as Research Programmes Administrator at UCD and was a lecturer at the University of West London. Paul received his BA and MA degrees at University College Dublin and his PhD at Queen’s University, Belfast.
Paul is the author of The Crimean War and...2023-09-121h 13
Military Historians are People, Too!S4 Bonus Bill Allison - Georgia Southern UniversityAs we prepare to kick off Season 4, by popular demand and return of the favor today Brian interviews Bill! Bill Allison is Professor of History and former chair of the Department of History at Georgia Southern University. He started his academic career as an assistant professor at the University of St. Francis (Indiana) and then spent several years at Weber State University. Bill earned a BA and MA in History at East Texas State University and took his PhD at Bowling Green State University, where he started as a diplomatic historian before embracing military history. He has done several...2023-09-051h 18
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E25 Charles Bowery - US Army Center of Military HistoryTo close out Season 3 (and our 75th overall episode!), our guest today is retired US Army colonel Charles R. Bowery, Jr. Charles, the Executive Director of the US Army Center of Military History and Chief of Military History at Ft. McNair in Washington, DC. He oversees all historical matters in the Department of the Army and the twenty-nine Army museums, including the National Museum of the United States Army. He also advises the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Army and other Army Senior Leaders on historical background relevant to events and projected actions affecting the Army. This...2023-08-221h 30
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E24 Huw Bennett - Cardiff UniversityOur guest today is charming international relations-cum-military historian Huw Bennett! Huw is a Reader in International Relations in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University in Wales. He was previously a Reader and then Lecturer in International Politics and Intelligence Studies at Aberystwyth University and a Lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. He was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, earning a degree in International Politics and Strategic Studies, a Master’s in Strategic Studies, and a PhD in International Politics.
Huw has writ...2023-08-151h 25
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E23 Jennifer Mittelstadt - Rutgers UniversityToday’s guest is the delightful historian of the military welfare state Jennifer Mittelstadt. Jen is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She completed her BA in History at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and her MA and PhD in History at the University of Michigan. Before joining the faculty at Rutgers, she was an Assistant Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Penn State University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. In 2017-2018, Jen was the Harold K. Johnson Chair in Military History at the US Army War College.
Je...2023-08-081h 18
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E22 Alison S. Fell - University of LiverpoolOur guest today is the fun and brilliant Alison Fell. Alison is Dean of the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool. Before taking on the role of Dean at Liverpool, she was Professor of French Cultural History and Director of the Leeds Humanities Research Institute at the University of Leeds. She has also taught at Oxford and Lancaster, and in 2014-15 she was Visiting Professor at the Institute for Historical Research, Université de Lille in France. Alison earned her BA and MA in French Studies at the University of Birmingham, then took her PhD i...2023-08-011h 07
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E21 Evan Wilson - US Naval War CollegeOur guest today is Napoleonic Era naval historian Evan Wilson! Evan is an associate professor in the John B. Hattendorf Center for Maritime Historical Research at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, where he also co-directs the Graduate Certificate in Maritime History. He was previously the Associate Director of International Security Studies at Yale University and a Caird Senior Research Fellow at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut. He earned a BA in History at Yale University, an MPhil in Modern European History from Cambridge, and a PhD in History from the University of Oxford.
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Military Historians are People, Too!S3E20 James Holland - Author and Historian, UKWhat a treat today! Our guest is Second World War historian and author James Holland. James is a prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction, a media personality, and an occasional battlefield tour guide. James earned a BA in History at St. Chad’s College, Durham, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Research Fellow at Swansea University. He has authored fourteen books on the Second World War, including Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day (Bantam Press) and Normandy '44: D-Day and the Battle for France (Bantam Press), wh...2023-06-131h 18
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E19 James Kimble - Seton Hall UniversityOur guest today is James J. Kimble. Jim is Professor of Communication & the Arts at Seton Hall University and is a scholar of war rhetoric and propaganda. From 1997-2005, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at George Mason University, where he was the Director of Forensics and Speech. He completed his BSEd in Communication & Political Science at the University of Nebraska and an MA, in Rhetoric & Communication at Kansas State University enroute to a PhD in Rhetoric & Political Culture at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Jim is the author of two books, Mobilizing the Home...2023-06-061h 09
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E18 Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy - University of VirgniaOur guest today is the brilliant and entertaining Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. Andrew is Professor of History at the University of Virginia and the former Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. From 2015-2022 he was the Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Andrew also spent thirteen years at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he served as the Chair of the Department of History and held the Rosebush Professorship. Andrew attended Columbia University before earning a BA, MA, and PhD in History from Oriel College at Oxford University.
Andrew...2023-05-301h 12
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E17 Ian Isherwood - Gettysburg CollegeOur guest today is the dapper, copiously quaffed, and brilliant Ian Andrew Isherwood. Ian is Associate Professor of War and Memory Studies in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Gettysburg College. He previously served as the Assistant Director of the Civil War Institute and chair of the Civil War Era Studies program. He is currently the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History at the US Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Ian earned his BA at Gettysburg College, his MA at Dartmouth College, and his PhD from the University of Glasgow’s Scottish Centre for War Studies.
I...2023-05-231h 02
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E16 Ashley Truluck - Society for Army Historical ResearchOur guest today is retired British Army Major General Ashley Truluck. Ashley brings together his military experience and lover for military history in a variety of ways, including being active in the Society for Army Historical Research and battlefield tourism. He attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and holds a BA in International Studies, History, and Procurement. His many assignments and commands included time with the Royal Corps of Signals, The Brigade of Gurkhas, the 3rd Armoured Divisional Signal Regiment, and the General Staff. Ashley’s military service took him around the world, and he retired at the ra...2023-05-161h 10
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E15 Jayita Sarkar - University of GlasgowWe're going nuclear today with Jayita Sarkar! Jay is a Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow. Before settling down in Scotland, she was an Assistant Professor at Boston University and a Niehaus Fellow at Dartmouth College. She was also a Fellow with Harvard University’s Weatherhead Initiative in Global History, an Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy, and a Stanton Postdoctoral Fellow, all also at Harvard. She received her Ph.D. in History from the Graduate Institute Geneva, an MA at the University of Paris IV, Sorbonne, and a BA and MA in...2023-05-091h 03
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E14 Andrew Huebner - University of AlabamaOur guest today is Andrew J. Huebner, who clearly didn't think through the idea of recording live in the Odysea Waterfront Lounge at the Hilton Bayfront in San Diego, in the middle of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History! Thankfully, most military historians avoid bars, pubs, etc. (NOT!). But we had a great chat and the sound turned out ok, so thanks for your patience with the sound quality on this one!
Andrew is Professor of History at the University of Alabama. He earned his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and his PhD from...2023-05-021h 01
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E13 Kate Clarke Lemay - National Portrait GalleryOur guest today is the artsy, funny, and brilliant Kate Clarke Lemay. Kate is a historian at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. She was the lead historian for the signature exhibitions America’s Presidents and Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence. and is currently curating a major exhibition titled 1898: American Imperial Visions and Revisions, which will open on April 28, 2023! Kate also serves as director of PORTAL, the National Portrait Gallery's Scholarly Center. She was Assistant Professor of Art History at Auburn University at Montgomery and Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Brigham Young Un...2023-04-251h 14
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E12 David Kieran - Columbus State UniversityOur guest today is the guitar-playing, hiking, marathon-running, American Studies guy-turned-historian David Kieran! Dave is an Associate Professor and the Colonel Richard R. Hallock Distinguished Chair in Military History at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Before coming to Columbus State, he was associate professor and chair of the history department at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, PA, where he also served as coordinator for the American Studies program. Dave was also a visiting assistant professor in the American Studies Department at Franklin & Marshall College and in the History Department at Skidmore College. He earned a BA in English...2023-04-181h 13
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E11 Lesley Gordon - University of AlabamaOur guest today is Civil War scholar Lesley Gordon. Lesley is the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at the University of Alabama. Prior to moving to Tuscaloosa, she was a professor of history at the University of Akron, and she started her academic career at Murray State University. Lesley received her BA from the College of William and Mary, and her M.A. and PhD from the University of Georgia.
Lesley’s first book General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend (UNC Press) was a History Book Club Selection. She published “This Terrible War”: The Ci...2023-04-1158 min
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E10 Martin Thomas - University of ExeterToday's guest is Martin Thomas. Martin is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict at the University of Exeter in the UK. He was also the first director of Exeter's Centre for the Study of War, State, and Society. Before joining the faculty at Exeter, Martin taught at the University of the West of England in Bristol for eleven years. He has held visiting professorships and fellowships at Sciences Po. Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies. Martin received his BA and PhD from Oxford University.
Martin is the au...2023-04-0457 min
Military Historians are People, Too!S3 Bonus Brian K. Feltman - Georgia Southern UniversityBy popular demand, we are finally interviewing each other! Today, Bill convinced Brian to sit down with him in Bill's American Military Experience class at Georgia Southern University for a live recording, in front of students no less!
Brian K. Feltman, not to be confused with the notorious other Brian Feltman from Georgia, is Professor of History (newly promoted!) at Georgia Southern University. He is a scholar of Modern Germany and the First World War and teaches courses on the same at Georgia Southern. He earned his BA and MA from Clemson University and his PhD from...2023-03-3056 min
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E9 Vanya Bellinger - US Naval War CollegeOur guest today is former journalist and now historian Vanya Eftimova Bellinger. Vanya is Assistant Professor of Strategy and Policy Development at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. She previously served as an assistant professor at Air University’s Global College of Professional Military Education and a visiting assistant professor at the US Army War College. Vanya received her BA in Public Relations and Communications at Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski, in Sofia, Bulgaria, and her MA in Military History at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. She recently defended her dissertation for the PhD in History at...2023-03-2857 min
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E8 Gary Sheffield - University of BuckinghamOur guest today is the prolific scholar and Arsenal supporter Gary D. Sheffield. Gary is Visiting Professor at the Humanities Research Institute of the University of Buckingham and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wolverhampton, where he set up the First World War Programme. He was previously Chair of War Studies at the University of Birmingham and Professor of Modern History at King's College London. He also served as Land Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Gary earned his undergraduate and MA degrees in History at the University o...2023-03-211h 10
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E7 David Morgan-Owen - King's College, LondonToday's guest is David Morgan-Owen. Dave is a Reader in the History of War in the Defence Studies Department at King's College, London. From 2019-2021, he served as Academic Programme Director for the Intermediate Command and Staff Course (Land) and the MA in Military and Security Studies. He received all of his degrees from the University of Exeter and has a park bench on campus named in his honor after having spent so many years there (not really, but we could start a campaign?). He has held fellowships at the Modern War Institute at West Point, the National Museum...2023-03-141h 09
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E6 John McManus - Missouri University of Science & TechnologyOur guest today is one of the leading historians of the American soldier John C. McManus. John is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of US Military History at the Missouri University of Science & Technology. He earned a BA in Sports Journalism and an MA in History from the University of Missouri, then received his PhD in History from the University of Tennessee (Bill says UT-Austin has the correct shade of orange; John, not surprisingly, disagrees). While at Tennessee, he served as the Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society and was also a participant in Tennessee's No...2023-03-071h 06
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E5 Allison Finkelstein - Arlington National CemeteryToday’s guest is historian and ballet dancer Allison Finkelstein. Allison is Senior Historian at Arlington National Cemetery. She is an alumna of the College of William and Mary and earned her PhD in History at the University of Maryland at College Park. Allison previously worked as a historian for the US Citizenship and Immigration Services History Office & Library and as a Historical Consultant for the American Battle Monuments Commission and the US Vietnam War Commemoration Office. From 2017-2018, she served as the Chair of the Arlington World War I Commemoration Task Force. In 2020, The National Alliance of Preservation Co...2023-02-2859 min
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E4 Ricardo Herrera - US Army War CollegeOur guest today is Ricardo Herrera. Rick is a Visiting Professor in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He received his BA from the University of California, Los Angeles (also known as UCLA) and his PhD in History from Marquette University. Before joining the Army War College, Rick was Professor of Military History in the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) at the US Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He also served six years at the Combat Studies Institute of the US Army...2023-02-211h 12
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E3 Anna McKay - University of LiverpoolOur guest today is Dr. Anna Lois McKay (that's pronounced McKai!). Anna is the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Liverpool, where she is working on a project titled "Prisoners’ Progress: Imperial Circulations of War Captives, 1793–1815.” She is a specialist on 18th-Century prison hulks, prisoners of war, and forced migration. In 2021-22, Anna was a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English at University College Cork. She was the Alan Pearsall Fellow in Naval and Maritime History at the Institute of Historical Research, London in 2020-2021. She earned a BA in English and Relate...2023-02-141h 06
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E2 Brian Linn - Texas A&M UniversityToday's guest is the prolific, experienced, fan of the Rolling Stones and recently announced 2023 Society for Military History Samuel Eliot Morrison awardee Brian McAllister Linn! Brian is Professor of History and Ralph R. Thomas Class of 1921 Professor in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. Brian has been at Texas A&M since 1989, but he had visiting positions at Old Dominion and Nebraska before landing in College Station. He attended the University of Hawaii for his BA and earned his MA and PhD at The Ohio State University.
Brian has held far too many fellowships to mention t...2023-02-071h 10
Military Historians are People, Too!S3E1 Erin McCoy - University of South Carolina at BeaufortOur guest today is Dr. Erin R. McCoy, and we are talking with her live from the campus of the University of South Carolina-Beaufort! Erin is an Associate Professor of English & Interdisciplinary Studies and is a past Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at USC-Beaufort. Erin earned a BA in English from Wingate University, located in the conveniently named town of Wingate, North Carolina. She has an MA in English from Clemson University and a PhD in Humanities from the University of Louisville. Before coming to USC-Beaufort, she held visiting and adjunct positions at USC-Upstate, Indiana University Southeast, and...2023-01-311h 03
Military Historians are People, Too!S2E25 Gregory A. Daddis - San Diego State UniversityWelcome to the final episode of Season 2 and our 50th overall episode! We can’t thank all of you enough for listening to, sharing, subscribing to, and supporting Military Historians are People, Too! As we often say, we’ll keep doing it if you keep listening. Season 3 is coming at the end of January!
Our special 50th-episode guest is Gregory A. Daddis, who has been bugging us for months to be on the show. Greg is the USS Midway Chair in Modern US Military History and the Director of the Center for War and Society at San Dieg...2022-12-201h 05
Military Historians are People, Too!S2E24 Harry Franqui-Rivera - Bloomfield CollegeOur guest today is the infectiously inspirational Harry Franqui-Rivera. Harry is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of History and Global Languages at Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Before landing at Bloomfield, Harry held visiting and adjunct positions at Marist College, Skidmore College, Lehman College (City University of New York), and he was a Research Associate at CENTRO - The Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York. Harry earned his BA in History at the Mayagüez Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, completed an MA in US Military/Diplomatic History at T...2022-12-131h 00
Military Historians are People, Too!S2E23 Hayley Hasik - University of Southern MississippiSo what does a graduate student think of all this? Let’s find out! Our guest today is Hayley Hasik, a PhD candidate at Southern Mississippi University. Her dissertation is titled “The Helicopter War: Unraveling the Myth and Memory of a Vietnam War Icon,” and she is slated to graduate in May 2023. Her doctoral advisor is friend-of-the-pod and our very first guest on Military Historians are People, Too! Heather Stur! Haley earned her BA in History and English at Texas A&M University-Commerce and her MA in Public History at Stephen F. Austin State University. With Eric Gruver, Haley is coa...2022-12-0659 min
Military Historians are People, Too!S2E22 Philip Shackelford - South Arkansas Community CollegeToday's guest is the hard-working fellow podcaster Philip Shackelford! Philip is the Director of the College Library at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado, Arkansas. Before joining South Arkansas Community College, Philip held internships and positions at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, the University of Akron, and the Twinsburg Public Library in Twinsburg, Ohio. He earned a BA and MA in History and his MLIS from Kent State University at Kent State.
Philip serves on the Executive Committee of the Arkansas Library Association (ArLA) and was pr...2022-11-291h 02Military Historians are People, Too!S2E21 Tait Keller - Rhodes CollegeToday’s guest is environmental historian Tait Keller. Tait is an Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. He is also the former Director of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Rhodes. Tait received his BA in History from the University of Rochester and earned his MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University and his PhD in History from Georgetown as well. Tait’s first book, Apostles of the Alps: Mountaineering and Nation Building in Germany and Austria, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2016. In 20...2022-11-221h 03Military Historians are People, Too!S2E20 Robert Wettemann - United States Air Force AcademyToday's guest is BBQ pit master (and military historian), Dr. Robert Wettemann. Bob is an associate professor of History at the United States Air Force Academy. He served as the Director of the Air Force Academy’s Center for Oral History from 2010-2014 and was the Max F. James Distinguished Researcher in Character and Leadership Development at the USAFA Center for Character and Leadership Development. Prior to moving to Colorado Springs, Bob was an associate professor of history at McMurray University (Go Warhawks!), where he served as the director of the public history program. He also worked with the Co...2022-11-151h 00Military Historians are People, Too!S2E19 David Silbey - Cornell UniversityToday on The Pod we talk with David Silbey! David is the associate director of the Cornell in Washington program and a senior lecturer at Cornell University. He joined Cornell after spending the first decade of his career at Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he reached the rank of associate professor. David received his BA in History from Cornell University and his MA and PhD in History from Duke University.
David has published numerous book chapters and articles, but his ability to produce books and edited volumes is enviable. His work includes The British Working Class a...2022-11-081h 07Military Historians are People, Too!S2E18 Jay Lockenour - Temple UniversityOur guest today is Jay Lockenour. Jay is a Professor of History at Temple University, where he has been on the faculty since July 1996. He served as the Chair of the Department of History from 2014-2020, and the director of the MA program from 1996-2001 and again in 2005. Jay is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple and sits on the University’s Advisory Board, Center for the Advancement of Teaching. He started his academic career as a visiting assistant professor at Franklin and Marshall College and he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at...2022-11-011h 03Military Historians are People, Too!S2 Bonus Short: Jahnyiah Davis - Georgia Southern UniversityToday Bill recorded live from a Historical Methods class at Georgia Southern University. For the record, Brian is doing a Huey Lewis - he's "working for a living" teaching a class, so Bill was left without a minder (very dodgy). Apparently, students in this class expressed an interest in history podcasting, so they got in touch with us (which may not have been the best decision). To show how the Military Historians are People, Too! podcast works, Bill is interviewing one of the students in the class - Jahnyiah Davis. Jahnyiah is a McNair Scholar and History Major at...2022-10-2515 minMilitary Historians are People, Too!S2E17 Stephanie Hinnershitz - National World War II Museum, New OrleansOur guest today is Dr. Stephanie Hinnershitz, a Senior Historian at the Institute for War and Democracy at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Steph joined the World War II Museum team after serving as the American History and Diversity Studies Fellow at the United States Military Academy at West Point and then Research Advisor for the Air Command and Staff College School of Professional Education at Maxwell AFB in Alabama. She did tenure-track stints at Valdosta State University and Cleveland State University as well. Steph earned her BA in History from Lock Haven University in P...2022-10-251h 07Military Historians are People, Too!S2E16 David Stone - Naval War CollegeToday's guest is David R. Stone. Dave is the William E. Odom Professor of Russian Studies in the Strategy and Policy Department at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI. Dave joined the Naval War College after spending sixteen years at Kansas State University, where he was the Picket Professor of History from 2008-2015. He was educated at Wabash College (AB in History and Mathematics) and Yale University (PhD in History) and has held Fellowships with the Yale International Security Studies Program and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Dave is...2022-10-1858 minMilitary Historians are People, Too!S2E15 Elizabeth Shesko - Oakland UniversityOur guest today is the enthusiastic Dr. Elizabeth Shesko, who is an Associate Professor of History at Oakland University in Oakland County, Michigan. Liz specializes in Latin American History with a special interest in military service and conscription in Bolivia. She received her AB in Spanish and English at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and went on to earn a PhD in History from Duke University. After completing her PhD, Liz was a postdoctoral research associate and Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in History and Latin American Studies at Bowdoin College and also taught at an American School in Guatemala. H...2022-10-1159 minMilitary Historians are People, Too!S2E14 Susannah Ural - University of Southern MississippiOur guest today is the absolutely delightful Susannah Ural! Susannah J. Ural is a professor of history and co-director of the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. She also directs USM’s Center for Digital Humanities. Susannah was previously the Charles W. Moorman Distinguished Alumni Professor of the Humanities at USM and the Blount Professor of Military History at the Dale Center. Before coming to USM, Susannah was an associate professor at Sam Houston State University. She earned her BA in History and Political Science at the University of Vermont and he...2022-10-041h 01Military Historians are People, Too!S2E13 Steven Trout - University of AlabamaOur guest today is the very generous and enthusiastic Steve Trout. Steve is a Professor of English at the University of Alabama - yes, the one in Tuscaloosa - where he recently stepped back from serving as Chair of that Department. Before moving to Tuscaloosa, he was Chair of the Department of English at the University of South Alabama, where he founded and co-directed the Center for the Study of War and Memory. Steve began his career at Fort Hayes State University in Kansas, serving as Chair of the Department of English and interim Dean of Graduate Studies and...2022-09-271h 12Military Historians are People, Too!S2E12 Amy Rutenberg - Iowa State UniversityOur guest today is Dr. Amy Rutenberg. Amy is an Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University and serves as the Coordinator for the Secondary Social Studies Education Program. Amy previously taught at Appalachian State University before making the move to Ames, but she started her teaching career with a five-year stint at Ardsley High School in New York. She earned a BA from Tufts University, an EdM at Harvard University, and her PhD from the University of Maryland at College Park. She brings a unique perspective to teaching and remains a champion of social studies education at t...2022-09-201h 09Military Historians are People, Too!S2E11 Kurt Hackemer - University of South DakotaOur guest today is Kurt Hackemer, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of South Dakota, where he is also, incidentally, a Professor of History. Kurt received his MA and PhD from Texas A&M University after earning his BA in History at the University of Chicago. Kurt is the author of To Rescue My Native Land": The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd (University of Tennessee Press) and The U.S. Navy and the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1847-1883 (Naval Institute Press). He has contributed to a variety of edited volumes, and his...2022-09-131h 00Military Historians are People, Too!S2E10 Reina Pennington - Norwich UniversityToday's guest is Dr. Reina Pennington, who is joining us from her amazing place in Vermont with her German Shepard Gunner. Reina recently retired from Norwich University in Vermont, where she was a Charles A. Dana Professor of History and the Director of the Studies in War and Peace Program. After completing her BA in Soviet Area Studies at the University of Louisville, Reina began a career as an Air Force intelligence officer, serving as a Soviet analyst with F-4 and F-16 fighter squadrons, the Aggressor Squadrons at the USAF Fighter Weapons School, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the A...2022-09-061h 01Military Historians are People, Too!S2E9 Randy Papadopoulos - US Navy StaffSince June 2021, Dr. Sarandis (Randy) Papadopoulos is a Senior Strategy Analyst with the US Navy Staff. He previously served as the Secretariat Historian in the Department of the Navy since 2010 and was a historian with the Navy Heritage Command from 2000-2010. Randy is also an experienced teacher, having taught courses on a range of military history and international relations topics at George Washington University and the University of Maryland at College Park. He received his BA in History from the University of Toronto before earning an MA in Military and Naval History from the University of Alabama. Randy then...2022-08-021h 29Military Historians are People, Too!S2E8 JP Clark - US Army War CollegeAs listed on his own webpage, Colonel JP Clark is “an army officer and historian.” He is a new instructor in the Department of Military Strategy, Planning, and Operations, at the US Army War College in Carlisle, PA, where he also served as Director of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute in 2018-2019. Prior to serving at the War College, Colonel Clark did two stints as a uniformed instructor in the Department of History at the US Military Academy at West Point. He completed a BS in Russian-German Language with a concentration in Systems Engineering. He later earne...2022-07-261h 16Military Historians are People, Too!S2E7 Debbie Gershenowitz - University of North Carolina PressDebbie Gershenowitz is an executive editor at the University of North Carolina Press, where she both acquires and edits manuscripts. It is worth mentioning that Debbie works out of UNC's “northern office” in NYC. Debbie earned a BA in History from Clark University and an MA in the same discipline at Indiana University. Her historical interests are extensive, and include but are not limited to black history, borderlands, military history, women, gender, and sexualities, and Latinx history. She favors bottom-up histories that give voice to underrepresented people and institutions. Debbie oversees four series at Chapel Hill, including the New Cold...2022-07-191h 27
Military Historians are People, Too!S2E6 Arjun Subramaniam - National Defence College, New DelhiToday's guest is retired Indian Air Force General Dr. Arjun Subramanium. Arjun is the President’s Chair of Excellence & Mentor at National Defence College, New Delhi, and a former Air Vice Marshal of the Indian Air Force. He commissioned as a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force in 1981 and accumulated more than 3000 flying hours in fighter aircraft, including all variants of the Mig-21 and Mirage-2000. He is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College and the National Defence College, New Dehli, and also served as senior faculty at the National Defence College. Arjun earned his B.A. in...2022-07-121h 25Military Historians are People, Too!S1E24 Jonathan Jones - Virginia Military Institute - LIVE at Georgia Southern University!Our guest for this very special LIVE recording of Military Historians are People, Too! is Jonathan S. Jones. Jonathan is an Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Military Institute, where he also serves as Deputy Director in the Adams Center for Military History & Strategic Analysis. Before joining the faculty at VMI, Jonathan was the Inaugural Postdoctoral Scholar in Civil War History at Penn State University’s George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. Jonathan earned his BA at Dallas Baptist University, then an MA at Texas Christian University, and finally at SUNY Binghamton, where he completed a doctoral di...2022-07-061h 04Military Historians are People, Too!S2E5 Sabrina Thomas - Wabash CollegeToday's guest is Dr. Sabrina Thomas, an Associate Professor and the David A. Moore Chair of American History at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Before joining the faculty at Wabash College, Sabrina held a dissertation fellowship at Middle Tennessee State University. She received her BA in History at Colorado State University, earned an MS in Counseling at Butler University, and completed her Ph.D. in History at Arizona State University, working under Season 1, Episode 6 guest Kyle Longley!
Sabrina is a specialist in US Foreign Policy with a transnational focus on the intersections of race, gender, nation, and w...2022-07-051h 27Military Historians are People, Too!S2E4 Tanya Roth - Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day SchoolOur guest today is Dr. Tanya L. Roth. Tanya is an Upper School History Teacher at the Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School (MICDS) in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed a BA in History and BA in English at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, and went on to earn her Ph.D. in History at Washington University in St. Louis.
Tanya is an accomplished teacher. She served as the J. Evan Philips Chair of Distinguished Teaching in History at MICDS for 2017-2020, and she has been selected to participate in teaching workshops organized b...2022-06-281h 18Military Historians are People, Too!S2E3 Adam Seipp - Texas A&M UniversityToday's guest is Adam R. Seipp, a Professor of History and Associate Dean in the Graduate and Professional School at Texas A&M University. Adam received all his degrees at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and before joining the faculty at Texas A&M he did visiting stints at UNC and Duke. He is the author of two monographs, Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-52 (Indiana 2013), and The Ordeal of Peace: Demobilization and the Urban Experience in Britain and Germany, 1917-21 (Routledge, 2009). He has also co-edited two volumes, Modern Germany i...2022-06-211h 38Military Historians are People, Too!S2E2 Ed Gitre - Virgnia TechOur guest today is Ed Gitre, an assistant professor of history at Virginia Tech University. He joined Virginia Tech as a Visiting Assistant in 2014 and went tenure track in 2017. Before joining Virginia Tech, he was an instructor at Seattle University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. Ed received his BA at the University of Michigan, an MA in Theological Studies from Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, an MA in History from the University of Manchester (UK), and a Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University.
He i...2022-06-141h 39Military Historians are People, Too!S2E1 Michelle Moyd - Indiana University, BloomingtonMichelle Moyd is the Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of History and the Associate Director of the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a specialist in the history of Eastern Africa and she wears a lot of hats at IU. Michelle received her undergraduate degree at Princeton University, her MA at the University of Florida, and a second MA and a PhD at Cornell University. Before pursuing her PhD, Michelle spent 8 years in the Air Force as an intel officer, serving in Germany and Somalia.
She is...2022-06-071h 21Military Historians are People, Too!S1E25 Michael S. Neiberg - US Army War CollegeToday's guest is the affable and beardless Michael S. Neiberg. Mike holds the Chair of War Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, PA. Before moving to the Army War College full time, he served there as the Harold K. Johnson Visiting Professor. From 2005 to 2011, Mike was Professor of History and the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He spent the first seven years of his career in the Department of History at the United States Air...2022-05-101h 11Military Historians are People, Too!S1E23 Peter Johnston - RAF Museum, LondonPeter Johnston is the Head of Collections and Research at the Royal Air Force Museum in London, a position that requires him to be an active researcher and work with the academic and military communities, and get to play with really cool airplane stuff! Before joining the RAF Museum, Peter was the Head of Collections, Research, and Academic Access at the National Army Museum in London (where he also got to play with really cool stuff!). He has also worked as a researcher for the Centre for Social Justice, and his work primarily involved researching governmental policies and their...2022-04-261h 39Military Historians are People, Too!S1E22 Joyce Harrison - University Press of KansasJoyce Harrison is Editor-in-Chief at the University Press of Kansas. She has nearly thirty years of experience in the publishing industry, and she has done it all: contracts and subsidiary rights, foreign rights, acquisitions, and editor in chief. Joyce started as an assistant editor at the University of Chicago Press, and has served as an acquisitions editor at the University of Michigan Press, the University of South Carolina Press, the University of Tennessee Press, and Kent State University Press. She was editor-in-chief at the University Press of Kentucky before moving to The Ranch at Lawrence in 2016.
Growing...2022-04-191h 39Military Historians are People, Too!S1E21 Vanda Wilcox - Independent Scholar, MilanDr. Vanda Wilcox is an independent scholar who makes her home in Milan, Italy. She received her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford. After finishing her Ph.D., she held a two-year junior research fellowship at Oxford. Vanda moved to Rome in 2008 and accepted adjunct positions at John Cabot University and Trinity College (Connecticut) Rome campus. She spent the next twelve years in Rome before relocating to Paris. In Paris, she taught for NYU and the Council for International Educational Exchange. Vanda is the author of The Italian Empire and the Great War (Oxford 2021), and...2022-04-121h 24Military Historians are People, Too!S1E20 Stuart Mitchell - Royal Military Academy, SandhurstDr Stuart Mitchell is a Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He earned a BA in Journalism and Contemporary History from Queen Mary University of London in 2006. He then earned an MA in the History of Warfare at King’s College, London in 2007 and went on to complete his PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2014. Stuart specializes in the history of the British Army during the First World War and is now looking at the development of insurgencies and counterinsurgency practices. His book first book, titled Counterinsurgency: Theory and Reality (Casemate 2021), was co-authored wi...2022-04-051h 50Military Historians are People, Too!S1E19 Kara Dixon Vuic - Texas Christian UniversityKara Dixon Vuic is the Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America at Texas Christian University. She received her BA in History and English at Marshall University and her MA and PhD from Indiana University. Before making the move to TCU, she held faculty positions at Bridgewater College in VA and Highpoint University in NC. She is the author most recently of The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines (Harvard University Press, 2019). Her first book Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War (Johns Hopkins, 2010) won...2022-03-291h 37Military Historians are People, Too!S1E18 Beth Bailey - University of KansasOur guest today is the award-winning teacher and scholar Beth Bailey. Beth is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and the Director of the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies at the University of Kansas, which includes the amazing resource for military history instructors - Teaching Military History. She is the author of America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force, Sex in the Heartland, The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii, and From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America. In addition, she has edited or co-edited numerous vo...2022-03-221h 14Military Historians are People, Too!S1E17 Kelly DeVries - Loyola University, MarylandOur guest today is Medival historan Kelly DeVries. Kelly is a Professor of History at Loyola University in Maryland, and is a world-renown historian of medieval military history. He has published widely - he is the author of A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology, which won the Verbruggen Prize for the best book in medieval military history in 2007. He shared a Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award with his co-author, Michael Livingston, in 2017 for The Battle of Crecy: A Casebook. His many other publications include Joan of Arc: A Military Leader, The Artillery of the...2022-03-151h 27Military Historians are People, Too!S1E16 Wayne Lee - University of North Carolina, Chapel HillToday's MHPT guest is Wayne Lee, the Bruce W. Carney Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (to not confuse with those other Universities of North Carolina). Wayne earned his Ph.D. from Duke University and is currently on loan to the USAF School for Advanced Air and Space Studies at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, as the Colin S. Gray Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies. At Chapel Hill, Wayne is also an Adjunct Professor in the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense and also a Research Associate in the UNC Research Laboratory in Archeology...2022-03-081h 31Military Historians are People, Too!S1E15 Aimée Fox - King's College, LondonToday we chat with Dr. Aimée Fox, Senior Lecturer for Defence Studies at King's College, London. Aimée earned her Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham, working under Freind of the Pod Jonathan Boff, and she also served as a Teaching Fellow in the History of Warfare at Birmingham. Aimée was also a Visiting Scholar at the Australian Defence Force Academy at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. Her first book, Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914-1918, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, winning the Templer Medal for Best...2022-03-011h 22Military Historians are People, Too!S1E14 Tammy Proctor - Utah State UniversityOur guest today is Tammy Proctor, Distinguished Professor of History and former Chair of the History at Utah State University in the lovely Cache Valley in Northern Utah. A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Tammy earned undergraduate degrees in Journalism and History at the University of Missouri, then a MA and PhD in History at Rutgers. Her previous university positions include the H.O. Hirt Professor of History at Wittenberg University in Ohio and Assistant Professor at Lakeland College in Wisconsin. Tammy is a war and society scholar of The Great War, focusing on civilian/non-combatant experiences and gender...2022-02-221h 19Military Historians are People, Too!S1E13 Annie Tracy Samuel - University of Tennessee, ChattanoogaToday's guest is a junior scholar who just published her first book, with Cambridge no less! Annie Tracy Samuel is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. (magna cum laude) in history from Tel Aviv University and a B.A. in history and political science from Columbia University. She specializes in the modern history of Iran and the Middle East.
Annie's scholarship has been published in International Security, Diplomatic History, and Harvard’s International Security Discussion Papers series, and her commentary on current events has been fea...2022-02-151h 19Military Historians are People, Too!S1E12 Megan Kate Nelson - Historian and Writer, BostonToday's guest is Megan Kate Nelson, a 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History finalist for her outstanding book The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Scribner, 2020), which also earned the following mentions:
Smithsonian Magazine's Top Ten History Books of 2020
Civil War Monitor's Top Civil War Books of 2020
2021 Emerging Civil War Book Award
2021 Pate Award, Fort Worth (Tex.) Civil War Roundtable
Business Insider's 23 Best History Books Written by Women
Finalist, 2021 Reading the West Book Award (Narrative Non-Fiction)
Fifty Books of the West List, Tattered Cover Bookstore and the Colorado Sun
Wow!2022-02-081h 27Military Historians are People, Too!S1E11 Jennifer Keene - Chapman UniversityToday's guest is Great War scholar Jennifer Keene. Jennifer is Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman University. She earned her Ph.D. in history from Carnegie Mellon University, after getting a B.A. and M.A. in history from Georgia Washington University. A specialist on the American soldier and veteran experience of World War I, she is the author of Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), World War I: The American Soldier Experience (Nebraska, 2011), and The United States and the First...2022-02-011h 26Military Historians are People, Too!S1E10 Daniel Krebs - US Army War College/University of LouisvilleToday we're chatting with the refined and gentlemanly Daniel Krebs. Daniel is the Harold Keith Johnson Visiting Chair in the Department of National Security and Strategy in the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA. At the War College, he offers courses on how prisoners of war impact strategic decision-making. Daniel is on loan to the War College from the University of Louisville, where he is Associate Professor of History specializing in Colonial & Revolutionary America and Military History. He received his undergraduate and M.A. degrees at the University of Augsburg in Germany before crossing the Atlantic to e...2022-01-251h 20Military Historians are People, Too!S1E9 Alexander Watson - Goldsmiths, University of LondonToday's guest is Alexander Watson. Alex is Professor of History at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is a renowned scholar of the First World War and modern Germany. He was educated at Oxford University and finished his Ph.D. there in 2005 under the direction of Niall Ferguson. Watson was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge from 2008-2011 and then spent two years in Poland at Warsaw University as a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow. His first book, Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918, was published with Cambridge i...2022-01-181h 19Military Historians are People, Too!S1E8 Ron Milam - Texas Tech UniversityToday's guest is Ron Milam, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War and Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University. Ron earned his Ph.D. at the University of Houston "a little later life," and at Texas Tech teaches the Vietnam War and graduate and undergraduate courses in Military History. His latest teaching interest is terrorism and insurgency, which developed from his being named an Academic Fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He served as a Fulbright Scholar to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and as the Academic Advisor for the semi-annual Vietnam Center-sponsored student...2022-01-111h 18Military Historians are People, Too!S1E7 Jacqueline Whitt - US Army War CollegeToday we chat with Dr. Jacqueline Whitt. Jackie is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Chair of National Security Studies and Associate Professor of Strategy at the US Army War College. She is also the editor-in-chief of WAR ROOM, the online journal and podcast of the Army War College. Currently, she is detailed as the Acting Deputy Director and Senior Advisor for the Organizational Learning Unit in the Office of Policy, Planning, and Resources for the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the Department of State. There, she is leading the writing and publication of the fir...2022-01-041h 19Military Historians are People, Too!S1E6 Kyle Longley - Chapman UniversityJoin us for a chat with Kyle Longley, Professor of History and Director of the War & Society MA Program in the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Department of History at Chapman University. Kyle began as a historian of American foreign relations and diplomatic history but has gravitated toward war and society studies both in teaching and research. A native of Texas, Kyle earned his bachelor's degree in history at Angelo State University, then an MA in history from Texas Tech, before earning his Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky. In 1995, he began a long academic...2021-12-281h 18Military Historians are People, Too!S1E5 Jonathan Boff - University of Birmingham UKToday's guest is Great War scholar Jonathan Boff. Jonathan is a Reader in History and War Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches courses on conflict from Homer to Helmand. He specializes in the First World War. He is currently an AHRC Leadership Fellow, researching a book on Money in Wartime which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2024. His last monograph, Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front, 1914-18 was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. It won the British Army Book of the Year award, and was joint winner...2021-12-211h 07Military Historians are People, Too!S1E4 James H. Willbanks - US Army Command & General Staff College (retired!)Jim Willbanks is one of the most interesting military historians you’ll come across. Born in Texas and a graduate of “that school” in College Station, Jim was commissioned as a young lieutenant through ROTC at Texas A&M University. He not long after found himself as an advisor with an ARVN regiment in South Vietnam during the 1972 Easter Offensive, during which he was wounded and decorated for heroism under fire. He spent twenty-three years in the Army, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. His decorations include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star with “V” and Oak Leaf Cluster, t...2021-12-141h 11Military Historians are People, Too!S1E3 Lorien Foote - Texas A&M UniversityBrian and Bill chat with Lorien Foote, one of the most important historians of the American Civil War experience. Lorien is the Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor in History at Texas A&M University, moving to College Station in 2013 after several years in the History Department at the University of Central Arkansas. She is the author of several books, including The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners of War (University of North Carolina Press, 2016), which was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Manhood, Honor, and Violence in the Union Army (New York University Press, 2010), which was a...2021-12-071h 11
Military Historians are People, Too!S1E2 Robert M. Citino - National WW2 Museum in NoLAJoin Brian and Bill as they chat with Rob Citino, the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Dr. Citino earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University and is an award-winning scholar of German military history and World War II, who has published numerous books, including The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943, Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942, and The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich, as well as numerous articles covering World War II and 20th-century military history. His book...2021-11-301h 02
Military Historians are People, Too!S1E1 Heather Marie Stur - University of Southern MississippiJoin Brian and Bill as they chat with Heather Marie Stur, one of the most cutting-edge Vietnam War and war and society studies historians in the United States. Dr. Stur earned a Ph.D. in History at the University of Wisconsin after earning a B.A. and M.A. in History at Marquette University. She is the Moorman Distinguished Alumni Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she is also the Director of Graduate Studies in History and the Co-Director of the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society. She...2021-11-231h 28