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麻豆传媒 Faculty, Alumni, and Graduate Students at Society for Military History conference in 2024

Dale Center faculty, former faculty, graduate students, and alumni at the Society for Military History's annual meeting in Arlington, Virginia 2024.

 

For a list of Dale Center Graduate Alumni books: CLICK HERE 

PhD Students:

2023

Hasik, Hayley Michael.  "The Helicopter War: Unraveling the Myth and Memory of a Vietnam War Icon."  Chair: Dr. Heather M. Stur.

  • Current Placement: Historian with the , Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

2022

Peterson, Lindsey R. "The Expansionist Cause: Union Civil War Commemorations as Tools of Western Colonization." Chair: Dr. Susannah J. Ural.

  • Current Placement: Digital Humanities Librarian at and C--Director of the .  Managing Director for .

Somers, Lucas. "Embattled Learning: Education and Emancipation in the Post-Civil War Upper South." Chair: Dr. Susannah J. Ural.

  • Current Placement: Assistant Professor of History at , Columbia, Kentucky.

2021

Mortimer, John. 'We Seek A Stable Structure: D茅tente', Human Rights, and National Security Policy, 1974鈥1981.鈥 Chair: Dr. Heather Stur

  • Current Placement: Historian at , Ft. McNair, D.C.

2020

Hazzard, Wesley. 鈥淭he Face of Intervention: Military Humanitarianism during the 1965 Dominican Crisis.鈥 Chair: Dr. Heather Stur.

  • Current Placement: Historian at , Ft. McNair, D.C.

2019

Doidge, Michael. "An Army Worth Fighting For: The U.S. Army鈥檚 Battle for Relevance in National Security from 1946 to 1964." Chair: Dr. Heather Stur.

  • Current Placement: Director and Supervisory Historian for the , California

2018

Cantrell, Kelly.  "Consuming Victory: American Women and the Politics of Food Rationing during World War II."  Chair: Dr. Andrew Haley.

  • Current Placement: Director of the Honors College and History Professor at , Scooba Mississippi

Colbourn, Colin.  "Esprit de Marine Corps: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps through Public Relations, 1911-50."  Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement: Lead Historian,

Engle, Jason.  "The Sch眉tzenwesen and the Roots of Austrian Paramilitarism in the First Republic."  Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest

  • Current Placement: Historian with the , Dayton, Ohio

2017

Fitzmorris, John. 鈥淏earing the 鈥楧ouble Burden; Chaplains in Combat during the Vietnam War.鈥 Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest. 

  • Current Placement: Instructor at , New Orleans, Louisiana

Taylor, Samantha A. "'Gosh, I Miss the Cold War': Post-Cold War Foreign Policymaking in the United States, 1989鈥1995." Chair: Dr. Heather Stur.

  • Current Placement: Assistant Professor Military and Security Studies, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, in Washington, D.C.

2016

Thompson, Robert.  "A Facade in Phu Yen: American Pacification Efforts in a South Vietnamese Province" Chairs: Drs. Heather Stur and Andrew Wiest

  • Current Placement: Historian with the , Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

2015

Hemmis, Timothy Christopher. 鈥淭rading Identities: National Identity, Loyalty, and Backcountry Merchants in Revolutionary America, 1740 鈥 1816.鈥 Chair: Dr. Kyle F. Zelner.

  • Current Placement: Associate Professor of History (Tenured), , Killeen, Texas

Bius, Joel Richard. 鈥淭he Soldier and the Cigarette: 1918 鈥 1986.鈥 Chair: Dr. Louis Kyriakoudes.  

  • Current Placement: Headmaster, , Montgomery, Alabama    

2014

Wieland, Robert.  "Reagan's Disraeli: Caspar Willard Weinberger as Secretary of Defense, 1981-87."  Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement: Curator, , Montgomery, Alabama

2013

Conklin, Dennis Blair. 鈥淐onflict and Controversy in the Confederate High Command: Johnston, Davis, Hood, and the Atlanta Campaign of 1864.鈥 Chair: Dr. Susannah Ural.
 
  • Current Placement: History Teacher, , Jackson, Mississippi

2007

Spurgeon, Ian Michael.  "Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane."  Chair: Dr. Bradley Bond

  • Current Placement:  Historian, Europe-Mediterranean Directorate, (DPAA), Washington, D.C.

2006 

Chappo, John Fabian. 鈥淲illiam H. Mahone of Virginia: An Intellectual Biography, 1830-1890.鈥 Chair: Dr. Bradley Bond.

  • Current Placement: Instructor of History and the History of Technology at , Williamsport, Pennsylvania

2005

Boler, Jaime Elizabeth. 鈥淐ity Under Siege: Resistance and Power in Natchez, MS 1719-1857.鈥 Chair: Dr. Greg O鈥橞rien.

  • Current Placement: , Ellisville, Mississippi

2003 

Catino, Martin Scott. 鈥淢ussolini鈥檚 March on America: Italian-Americans and the Fascist Experience, 1922-1941.鈥 Chair: Dr. R. Geoffrey Jensen. 

  • Current Placement: Assistant Professor and Department Chair, , Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2001 

Vaughn, William Ashley. 鈥淣atchez during the Civil War.鈥 Chair: Dr. William K. Scarborough.

  • Current Placement: Independent Researcher in Jackson, Mississippi

1999

Robins, Glenn M.  "Leonidas Polk and Episcopal Identity: An Evangelical Experiment in the Mid-Nineteenth Century South."  Chair: Dr. William K. Scarborough.

  • Current Placement: Professor of History and Chair of the History Department, , Americus, Georgia

1998 

Barbier, Mary Kathryn. 鈥淒-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion.鈥 Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement: , Starkville, MS and Co-editor,

Apel, John Patrick. 鈥淎 Window of Opportunity: A History of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the First Half of the Korean War.鈥 Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest. 

  • Current Placement: Lawyer, Portsmouth, Ohio

 

MA Students

2023

Bishop, Christopher.  "'I Was Looking for God': A Study of Wehrmacht Personnel and their Personal Relationships with Religion."  Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement: PhD student in History at in College Station, Texas.

Cloys, Emily.  "Negotiating National Identity: A Study of Nationalist Rhetoric during the British Voluntary Recruiting Movement, 1914-1916."  Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement: Analyst, , Mississippi Legislature, Jackson, Mississippi

Jarrell, Joseph.  "The King and His Court: The Culture of Royal Power and the Creation of the Angevin Empire Under Henry II."  Chair: Dr. Courtney Luckhardt. 

2022 

DeLee, John. "Henry Knox: The American Frontier as a Foreign Policy Arena, 1785-1794." Chair: Dr. Kyle Zelner.

  • Current Placement: Instructor of History at in McComb, Mississippi.

Losen, Maeve. "Emotions in Work and War: Comparisons of Emotional-Cultures of New Deal CCC Enrollees and WWII U.S. Army Enlistees, 1933-1945." Chair: Dr. Kevin Greene. 

Singleton, Michael. ""Conserving" The Middle Ground: Tennessee's Unionist Press in Secession Crisis, 1860-1861." Chair: Dr. Susannah J. Ural.

  • Current Placement: Employed by the , Washington D.C.

Washam, Brian. "Validation in Vietnam: Motivation and Experiences of Vietnam Veterans Who Returned to Vietnam as Tourists." Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

2021

Abulawi, Amanda. "Higher Command: An Examination of African American Leadership in the Vietnam Era." Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement: Processing Assistant, Historical Manuscripts & Archives at , University of 麻豆传媒

DeFazio, T. Michael. "For Cause and Countries: Initial, Sustaining, and Combat Motivation in the Royal Air Force Eagle Squadrons, 1940-1942." Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement: U.S. Air Force, in Wichita Falls, Texas

Loper, Billy. "Paradoxes of the Heart and Mind: Three Case Studies in White Identity, Southern Reality, and the Silenced Memories of Mississippi Confederate Dissent, 1860-1979." Chair: Dr. Susannah J. Ural.

  • Current Placement: Analyst, , Mississippi Legislature, Jackson, Mississippi

Stobaugh, Lindsey. "Recognizing Race: The Impact of Twentieth-Century Feminist Movements on Race Relations in West Germany." Chair: Dr. Allison Abra.

  • Current Placement: Academic Advisor, , Greeley, Colorado

Turnbaugh, Cody. "'My Bruises Are Inward:' A Study of Mental Trauma in the American Civil War." Chair: Dr. Susannah J. Ural.

  • Current Placement: History Instructor, , Fort Lauderdale, Florida

2020

Coffey, Regina. "'You Must Live, and Show to the World What They Have Been Doing Here': The Survival of the 'Rabbits' of Ravensbr眉ck." Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement: PhD student in History at , Tallahassee, Florida

Lewis, Taylor. "Helmand: The U.S. Marines and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, 2010-2012." Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement: History Teacher, , Friendswood, Texas

Major, Justin. "The Unknown War: Army of the Republic of Vietnam Combat Operations 1962-1963." Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

Myers, Amy. "A Call to Arms: A Comparative Study of Mississippi and Kentucky Citizens During the Secession Crisis, 1859-1861." Chair: Dr. Susannah J. Ural.

  • Current Placement: Review and Compliance Assistant for the Historic Preservation Division, , Jackson, Mississippi

2019

Price, Brannon. "The Fighting Blue Ridgers: Combined Arms Capabilities of the US Army's 80th Infantry Division in World War II, 1944-1945." Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement: Social Studies Teacher, , Anderson, South Carolina

Sarvela, John. "Soldaten des Westens: An Analysis of the Wartime Experiences of Three German-American Regiments from the St. Louis-Belleville Region." Chair: Dr. Susannah J. Ural. 

  • Current Placement: PhD student in History at , Stillwater, Oklahoma

2018

Partain, Aderian.  "Cornerstone of Union Victory: Officer Partnerships in Joint Operations in the West."  Chair: Dr. Susannah J. Ural.

2017

Barnett, Tracy L. "Maligned 'Milish:' Mississippi Militiamen in the Civil War." Chair: Dr. Susannah J. Ural.

  • Current Placement: PhD Student at the , Athens, Georgia
Foster, Lisa. "'To Mississippi, Alone, Can They Look for Assistance': Confederate Welfare in Mississippi, 1861鈥1957." Chair: Dr. Susannah J. Ural.
 
Lovering, Richard. "Sir Robert Thompson's Better War: The British Advisory Mission and the South Vietnamese Strategic Hamlet Program, 1961鈥1963." Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.
 
  • Current Placement: History Instructor at 
Rossi, Guido. "Italian Fellas in Olive Drab: Exploring the Experiences of Italian-American Servicemen in Sicily and Italy, 1943鈥1945." Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.
 
  • Current Placement: PhD Student at 
Schaefer, Nicholas. "For King and Country: Reconsidering the Great War Soldier in Britain, 1914鈥1945." Chair: Dr. Allison Abra.
 
Strohmetz, Carol.  "Women In Wartime Shipyards: Operating A Drill Press Was Like Using An Egg Beater."  Chair: Dr. Deanne Stephens
 
2016
 

Martin, David.  "Mr. Jefferson鈥檚 Army in Mr. Madison鈥檚 War: Atrophy, Policy, and Legacy in the War of 1812."  Chair: Dr. Kyle F. Zelner.

  • Current Placement: United States Air Force.

Nelson, Anna Rikki. 鈥淪haken, Not Stirred: Espionage, Fantasy, and British Masculinity during the Cold War.鈥 Chair: Dr. Allison Abra. 

  • Current Placement: Archives Technician at

2014

Ward, Samuel Howard. 鈥淛ackson鈥檚 Flying Dutchmen: The Significance of the Royal Netherlands Military Flying School.鈥 Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement:

White, Ruth Poe. 鈥淎 Tale of Two Cities: Vicksburg and Natchez, Mississippi during the American Civil War.鈥 Chair: Dr. Susannah Ural.

  • Current Placement:

2013

Branstiter, Eugene Allan. 鈥淢adness, Scalawagery, and Reconstruction: Dr. William M. Compton and Civil War Era Politics.鈥 Chair: Dr. Susannah Ural.

  • Current Placement: Training Specialist at

Foster, Aaron Edward. 鈥淚nconspicuous but Indispensable: Charles Anderson Dana as Assistant Secretary of War.鈥 Chair: Dr. Susannah Ural.

  • Current Placement:  

Seal, Stephanie Anne. 鈥淰ictims of Liberty: Virginia鈥檚 Response to Loyalists and Loyalism in Williamsburg, 1770 鈥 1781.鈥 Chair: Dr. Kyle F. Zelner.

  • Current Placement: Customer Enablement Manager, , Hattiesburg, Mississippi

2012 

Riotto, Angela Maria. 鈥淔urnish the Balance: The 1863 Roots of Hard War Strategy in the American Civil War.鈥 Chair: Dr. Susannah Ural.

  • Current Placement: Historian with the Documentary Team,

Wilson, L. B. 鈥淧erception and Realities of the Irish Republican Army during the Second World War.鈥 Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement:

2011

McGrew, Matthew Robert. 鈥淏eneath the Surface: American Culture and Submarine Warfare in the 20th Century.鈥 Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement: Education Coordinator,

Nicholls, Nancy Nicole. 鈥淭he Last Victorian Knight: A Study of T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt.鈥 Chair: Dr. Amy Milne-Smith.

2010

Lazenby, Kaci Joanne. 鈥淎 New Road to Peace? Jimmy Carter鈥檚 Middle East Diplomacy: The Break-Up of Pan-Arabism and a New Cold War Balance of Power.鈥 Chair: Dr. Heather Stur.

  • Current Placement: History Teacher,

2009

Bell, Earl William. 鈥淪word of Reform, Sword of Evangelism: The Forging of an Evangelical Military.鈥 Chair: Dr. Michael Neiberg.
 

Colbourn, Colin Michael. 鈥淓spirit de Marine Corps: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps through Public Relations, 1898-1929.鈥 Chair: Dr. Michael Neiberg.

  • Current Placement: Lead Historian,

Hollifield, Kimberly Lanell. 鈥淕alvanizing a Nation: Political Rhetoric that Drove America Toward Civil War.鈥 Chair: Dr. William K. Scarborough.

Jonathan Daniel. 鈥淎 Manufactured Rebellion: An Assessment of the Seizure of the West Florida Convention and the 1810 West Florida Rebellion.鈥 Chair: Dr. Brian LaPierre.

  • Current Placement:

Urbanak, Anthony Otis. 鈥淭he Changing Nature of the Army As Seen Through the Lens of Enlisted Personnel Recruitment.鈥 Chair: Dr. Michael Neiberg.

2008

Beech, Cameron Ryan. 鈥淢en Set Apart: The Staff College, Staff Officers, and the Professionalization of the British Army鈥檚 Officer Corps.鈥 Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest
 
  • Current Placement:  

Obinalli, Kelechi. 鈥淎merican Foreign Policy and the Internalization of the Biafran War, 1967-1970.鈥 Chair: Dr. Deanne S. Nuwer.

2006 

Cantrell, Kelly Elizabeth. 鈥淲e Can Do It! Hollywood Feature Films, American Servicemen, and the Second World War.鈥 Chair: Dr. Stephen Sloan.

  • Current Placement: Director of the Honors College and History Professor at

Coleman, Rebecca Leigh. 鈥淓uropean Violence and the Papal Dream: A Study in Medieval Peace Initiatives.鈥 Chair: Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice.

French, Wesley Tyler. 鈥淐hanges and Trends in the American Film Industry and their Impact on the Vietnam Subgenre, 1965-1990.鈥 Chair: Dr. Bradley Bond.

Hession, William David. 鈥淭urpentining in the Piney Woods: Hattiesburg and the Naval Stores Industry.鈥 Chair: Dr. Bradley G. Bond.

2004

Hall, David Bradley. 鈥淐ombat Medical Soldiers: US Army First Echelon Medics in the European Theater of Operations during the Second World War.鈥 Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

Overby, Lee T. 鈥淭he Most Horrible War: The Impact of Technology, Logistics, and Disease on the Anglo-Asante War of 1873-4.鈥 Chair: Dr. James Patterson Smith.

Stewart, Jason Andrew. 鈥淐omforting the Vanquished: A History of the Beauvoir Soldiers鈥 Home.鈥 Committee Chair: Dr. William K. Scarborough.

  • Current Placement: , Raymond, MS 

2003 

Walters, Andrew Howard. 鈥淚nitiative in Command: The Learning Curve in the British Army during World War I.鈥 Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement: Historian,

2002 

Cates, Joseph E. 鈥淭he Fight for an Independent Army: Amalgamation and the AEF in the First World War.鈥 Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Oral History Coordinator at Sullivan Museum & History Center at Norwich University

Davis, Edward Harold. 鈥淕uadalcanal, 7 August 1942- 26 October 1942. (1) The Battle of the Tenaru River, 21 August 1942, (2) The Battle of Bloody Ridge, 12-14 September 1942, (3) The Battle of Henderson Field and the Lunga River, 24-26 October 1942.鈥 Chair: Dr. Louis M. Kyriakoudes.

Hudson, Janet Maria. 鈥淭he Hub City Home Front: Women of Hattiesburg, Mississippi during World War II.鈥 2002. Chair: Dr. Marjorie Julian Spruill.

Loicano, Martin. 鈥淎n Analysis of the Failure of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces.鈥 Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement: , New Orleans, LA

2000 

Spencer, David Brett. 鈥淪word of Ulysses: The Unconditional Surrender Doctrine and the Rise of American Imperialism.鈥 Chair: Dr. Kenneth G. McCarty.

1998

Monday, Steve. 鈥淭he Troubled Color Line: Race Relations in Jackson, Mississippi during World War II.鈥 Chair: Dr. Neil R. McMillen.

Williams, Benjamin Shawn. 鈥淪tuck in the Middle: Kentucky Politics and the Confederate Invasion of 1862.鈥 Chair: Dr. James Patterson Smith.

1997 

Kimball, Larry Scott. 鈥淏ritish Volunteers in World War I: Changing Attitudes and Perceptions鈥. Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

1996

Dougal, Ian. 鈥淕unboat Democracy: American Exceptionalism and the Military Interventions in Grenada (1983) and Panama (1989).鈥 Chair: Dr. Kenneth G. McCarty.

  • Current Placement:  

Huff, Edward Eugene. 鈥淏ritish and American Policy toward Italian Territorial Claims in the First World War.鈥 Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

1995 

Adams, Owen E. Jr. 鈥淐onfederate Major General Robert E. Rodes: A Civil War Biography.鈥 Chair: Dr. William K. Scarborough.

McDonald, Sam Dawson. 鈥淭he Civil Thorn: Congressman Ross Collins and the American Military, 1921-1943.鈥 Chair: Dr. Kenneth G. McCarty.

Patterson, Steven. 鈥淭he Forgotten Army: Morale Problems of the British Fourteenth Army in India during World War II.鈥 Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest.

  • Current Placement:

Stewart, Paula.  鈥淰illain of the Peace: The Career and Image of James Longstreet in Southern History.鈥 Chair: Dr. William K. Scarborough.

1994 

McLain, Robert A. 鈥淎t His Majesty鈥檚 Request: The Indian Army Corps on the Western Front, 1914-1915.鈥 Chair: Dr. L. Margaret Barnett. 

  • Current Placement:

1993

Kelly, James R. Jr. 鈥淭he Confederate Ironclad Program and the Defense of the West.鈥 Chair: Dr. William K. Scarborough.

O鈥機onnor, Patrick Joseph. 鈥淭o Destroy or Create: American Occupation Policy for Japan, 1945-1952.鈥 Chair: Dr. Kenneth G. McCarty.

Tuepker, John Lee. 鈥淭he Effects of World War II on Blacks in Harrison County, Mississippi.鈥 Chair: Dr. Neil R. McMillen.

Vaughn, WA. 鈥淭he Black Militia in the Battle of New Orleans.鈥 Chair: Dr. John Guice.

Zhang, Kemin. 鈥淲hy They Fought?鈥 An Analysis of the Motives of Non-slaveholding Whites toward the Civil War.鈥 Chair: Dr. William K. Scarborough. 

  • Current Placement:

1992

Snell, William Halsey Jr. 鈥淯nion and Confederate Treatment of Prisoners of War during the American Civil War.鈥 Chair: Dr. William K. Scarborough.

1991 

Gunn, Mark E. 鈥淭he Magnolia Cross: The Role of Mississippi Chaplains during the Civil War.鈥 Chair: Dr. William K. Scarborough.

Wedding, Stephen E. 鈥淪herman鈥檚 Meridian Expedition: Modern Warfare in Mississippi.鈥 Chair: Dr. William K. Scarborough

  • Current Placement:

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