The Modern Scholar Podcast

Welcome to the VERY FIRST bonus episode of the show! I have a few random thoughts about the history profession that I'd like to share - hopefully all of you find them useful!  A few fellow podcast shoutouts: Military Historians Are People, Too! with Brian Feltman and Bill Allison Civics and Coffee with Alycia Asai Drafting the Past with Kate Carpenter Check out these folks and their shows!

Dr. Sharon Morris is an Instructional Designer at Colorado Mountain College. She has a Master’s in Library and Information Science and a Ph. D. in Managerial Leadership in Libraries. Dr. Morris has co-designed state-level library leadership institutes, and served as an instructor, in Colorado, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. She also serves on the Leadership Team and is a core instructor for the Research...

My guest today is Hayley Hasik , who is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi, and her research interests include 20th century U.S. history with an emphasis on war and memory, the Vietnam War, veterans’ experiences, and cultural history. Hayley’s current research focuses on examining the legacy of the “Helicopter War” in Vietnam. Her project seeks to uncover how and why helicop...

Dr. Matthew Ford is an Honorary Historical Consultant to the Royal Armouries (UK), the founding Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal for Military History, a former West Point Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. His research focuses on war and the data-saturated battlefields of the 21st century, and he is the author of n...

My guest today is Trent Hone , an award-winning naval historian and an expert on U.S. Navy tactics and doctrine. He is the author of Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898–1945 , which explores how the U.S. Navy developed learning mechanisms before World War II that accelerated victory during that conflict. His article, “U.S. Navy Surface Battle Doctrine and Victor...

Dr. Jonna Perrillo has been an education historian and a professor of English Education at the University of Texas of El Paso since 2005. Her scholarship focuses on the history of schools and citizenship, both in the sense of how schools define and translate citizenship values and how they enfranchise or disenfranchise students and teachers. She is the author of two books: Uncivil Rights: Teachers...

My guest today is Dr. Mary Elizabeth Walters , and she is an Assistant Professor of Military and Security Studies in the Department of Airpower at the Air Command and Staff College. Walters received both her MA and PhD in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches Airpower I, Airpower II, War Theory, and electives on strategy and Star Wars, the Balkans, and...

I my guest today is Dr. Ricardo Herrera, an award-winning historian and Professor of Military History at the School of Advanced Military Studies, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. A scholar of eighteenth and nineteenth-century U.S. military history, he is the author of Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778 (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press,...

Welcome back to the Modern Scholar podcast! Our guest today is Dr. John Curatola, a retired Marine Corps officer of twenty-two years and a history professor at the Army Command and General Staff College. During his Marine Corps career he served in Somalia, Iraq, and was a lead planner for the 2005 Indian Ocean Tsunami Relief operation. He taught both joint operations and military history at Fort L...

Join me today for a fascinating conversation with Kate Carpenter! Kate is a doctoral candidate in the history of science at Princeton University, with an MA in history (public history emphasis) from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her dissertation is a scientific and social history of storm chasing in the second...

My guest today is Crystal Gates! Crystal serves as the Executive Director of the William F. Laman Public Library in North Little Rock, Arkansas. She is building upon their past successes with innovative, patron-centric services, and relevant curriculum and resources. Crystal also served as Director of the Jackson Parish Library in Jonesboro, Louisiana. Under her leadership, JPL was named one of th...

Today I have a very special guest - Dr. Paul J. Springer. Dr. Springer is the Chair of the Department of Research and a full professor of comparative military studies at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He holds a PhD in military history from Texas A&M University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including America’s Captives: Treatment...

My guest today is Victoria Taylor ! Victoria is an award-winning aviation historian based at the University of Hull and Sheffield Hallam University, where she recently defended her PhD thesis on the Luftwaffe and National Socialism in the Third Reich. Her main historical focus is on British and German aviation during the interwar period and the Second World War. In recognition of her PhD research,...

*Apologies for a brief interruption in Dr. Lewis's audio. This was due to a brief unstable Internet connection and was missed in the editing process. Today's guest is Dr. Adrian R. Lewis . Dr. Lewis is the David B. Pittaway Professor of Military History at the University of Kansas. He has researched and written extensively on war, military affairs, and the Armed Forces of the United States for ove...

Welcome to the Modern Scholar podcast!  I'm glad you're here, and thank you for joining me today! Why was I inspired to create this series? Listen on and find out!  My guests today are Dr. Bill Allison and Dr. Brian Feltman, both from Georgia Southern University, and co-hosts of the wonderful podcast, Military Historians Are People, Too!  Dr. Bill Allison is a scholar of American mi...

Welcome to the Modern Scholar podcast!  All around the world there are individuals doing great things — asking great questions, conducting meaningful research, innovating, and building better communities. In this series we interview librarians, scholars, and community leaders who are not only performing cutting edge work, but share the same passion for educating, encouraging, and empowering those...