Professor of History
Henrietta Jennings Faculty Chair for Outstanding Teaching (2015-2020)
Education
Ph.D., Boston College
B.A., University of Maryland
About
My teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century Europe; modern German and Russian history; and European military history.
Publications
“The Abolition of the Army Canteen, 1898-1914,” The Journal of Military History, July 2016.
“The U.S. Armed Forces and the Development of Anti-NATO Protest in West Germany, 1980-1989.” In GIs in Germany: The Social, Economic, Military, and Political History of the American Military Presence, 1945-2000, edited by Detlev Junker. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
“U.S. Military Bases and the Rehabilitation of West Germany in the 1950s.” In Political and Social Impact of Military Bases: Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Challenges: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, edited by Luis Rodrigues. Lisbon, Portugal: NATO Joint War College, 2009.
Life in the U.S. Armed Forces: (Not) Just Another Job. Praeger (2008).
U.S. Soldiers Overseas: The Global Military Presence. Praeger (2004).
“Daughters of Mars: Army Officers’ Wives and Military Culture on the American Frontier.” The Historian 67, no 1 (December 2004).
Wiesbaden and the Americans, 1945-2003. Wiesbaden StadtArchiv Verlag (2003).
Entries for The Encyclopedia of German-American Relations, The NATO Encyclopedia, Women and War, Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia, and The Encyclopedia of Military Science.
Teaching Interests
Courses I teach regularly include:
- FYE: Reading between the Lines
- HIST 112 History of Europe, 1000-1700 CE
- HIST 113 History of Europe since 1700 CE
- HIST 200 Making History: Sophomore Experience
- HIST 215 History of Russia
- HIST 228 European Jewish History
- HIST 240 German History: 1648-Present
- HIST 241 History of Great Britain
- HIST 327 Europe 1914-1945
Department(s)
Program(s)
Office
Knapton 326
Hours
TR 9:30-10:30; TR 12:30-1:30 p.m. and by appointment