Military Historians are People, Too!

We kick off Season 5 with fellow directional-state utlitiy infielder Devlin Scofield of Northwest Missouri State University. Devlin is a historian of Germany and the First World War, and also researches on Alsatian veterans and nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Born in New York but raised in Livingston, Montana, Devlin earned his PhD at Michigan State University. So, we'll talk &quot...

Our guest today is Kansas native-turned-West Texan Kelly Crager . Kelly is Head of the Oral History Project at the Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University, where he is also the Associate Archivist. Before coming to Texas Tech, Kelly was a visiting assistant professor at Texas A&M University. He holds a BA and MA degree in American history from Pittsburg State Un...

Our guest today is another Napoleonic-era scholar and also prolific podcaster Zack White . Zack is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures at the University of Portsmouth. He earned a BA in History from the University of Southampton, a Postgraduate Certificate of Education in Secondary Education and Teaching from the Wessex Schools Training Par...

Our guest today is Napoleonic-era scholar Luke Reynolds , who is an assistant professor of history at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. He has taught at colleges and universities in greater New York City, including Hunter College and Brooklyn College. Luke holds a BA in history from Trinity College in Dublin, an MA from Hunter College in New York, an MPhil in history from Cambridge, and a...

Today's special Leap Year guest is World War II social historian and oral history advocate G. Kurt Piehler . Kurt is the Director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience at Florida State University. He has held academic appointments at the City University of New York and Drew University, and was the founding director of the Rutgers Oral History Archives and served as Director...

Our guest today is a historian of the Civil War, the Vietnam era, and the prisoner-of-war experience - Glenn Robins in Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia. He formerly served as the Director of GSW University, and was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi a...

Today’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 summer...

Our guest today is Ohio University PhD candidate Cody J. Billock . Cody is a Fellow at the Contemporary History Institute Fellow at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he is completing a dissertation titled “Huế & The Global Vietnamese Civil War, 1945-1980,” under the direction of Alec Holcombe. Cody completed his BA and MA in History at San Diego State University, working with Pierre Assel...

Today’s guest is the funny and brilliant Matthias Strohn . Matthias is Head of the Historical Analysis Program at the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research and an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Buckingham. Matthias has also served as a senior lecturer in War Studies at the UK Ministry of Defence and a Military History Instructor...

Today's guest is the delightful First World War scholar Dr. Jennifer Wellington . Jennifer is Assistant Professor in Late 19th/20th Century Continental and Global History at University College, Dublin, where she is also a member of the UCD Centre for War Studies. She earned a BA in English and an LLB, both with Honors, at Australian National University, Canberra. At Canberra, she was awarded t...

Today'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 Universi...

Our 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...

Our 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...

Today’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, Swanse...

Today'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...

Today'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 Univers...

Our 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 Warfightin...

Today'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 Armou...

Today'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...

Whether 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 Kentuc...

Our 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 d...

Today'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...

Our 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...

Our 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...

Our 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...