Military Historians are People, Too!

So 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,...

Today'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 Twinsb...

Today’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...

Today'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 Develop...

Today 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 P...

Our 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,...

Today 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...

Our 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 Pro...

Today'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...

Our 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...

Our 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...

Our 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...

Our 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 Univer...

Our 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...

Today'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...

Since 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 Wa...

As 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...

Debbie 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 blac...

Today'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 M...

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 a...

Today'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 co...

Our 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 serve...

Today'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,...

Our 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 M...

Michelle 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 se...