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Updated 1.17.24

 

Education

The Ohio State University
2024 (Expected). Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History
Fields: Military History (Major); Diplomatic/20th c. US History (Minor)
Committee: Peter R. Mansoor, Bruno Cabanes, Geoffrey Parker

The University of Oxford
June 2017. Master of Studies, US History, St. Hugh’s College

Brigham Young University
Spring 2016. BA, History, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Alpha Theta
Summer 2015. University of Cambridge, Pembroke King’s Programme

Research Interests

Coalition warfare, alliances, interoperability, strategy and operations, multinational organizations; international security, grand strategy, international and global history; the Second World War.

Working Papers and Projects

“War Without Borders:  Coalition Warfare in the Mediterranean and the Allied Template for Victory, 1942–1943.” Dissertation project.

Ed., Major Aage Juul. Campaigning with the Buffs in Italy: A Dane’s Odyssey through the Italian Campaign from Anzio to the Alps. Under review at the University Press of Kansas.

Publications

2024

Review of Heinz Greiner and Linden Lyons (trans.), Rome to the Po River: The 362nd Infantry Division, 1944–45. H-War, H-Net Reviews. Forthcoming.

“Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership.” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective (January 2024). Available here.

2023

“Coalition in Miniature: The Peculiar Case of Task Force 45 during the Italian Campaign of World War II.” On Point: The Journal of Army History (Spring 2023).

2022

“From the Archives, 1967: Key Players in Top-Secret WWII Operation Gather on 25th Anniversary.” History Uncovered (November 2022).

With Robert F. Williams. “Torch: The Allied Invasion of French North Africa, 1942.” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective (September 29, 2022). Available here.

“If This Folder Could Talk: The Story of Italy’s Secret Surrender during World War II.” Marshall: The Magazine of the George C. Marshall Foundation (Summer 2022). Available here.

“Behind Enemy Lines: Task Force Raff and Early Allied Cooperation in North Africa, 1942–43.” Military History Online (July 2022). Available here.

“History While It’s Hot: How a Group of US Army Combat Historians Helped Preserve the GI’s Perspective in Europe During World War II.” Military Review 102, no. 3 (May/June 2022): 114–125. Available here.

2021

“The Cold, Cold War: Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Antarctic Expeditions, and America’s Evolving Strategic Interest in the Polar Regions, 1945-1960.” The Arctic Institute (November 2021). Available here.

“Lighting the Cobra’s Pipe: The Forgotten Team at the Heart of the Wartime Brazilian–American Alliance, 1942–45” Occupied Italy 1, no. 1 (September 2021). Available here.

Review of Mumford, Andrew. Counterinsurgency Wars and the Anglo–American Alliance: The Special Relationship on the Rocks. H-War, H-Net Reviews. August 2021. Available here.

2020

Pacific Apostle: The 1920–1921 Travel Diary of David O. McKay in the Latter-day Saint Island Missions. With Reid L. Neilson (eds.) and David O. McKay. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. Available here.

2016

“Friction and Fog: The Chaotic Nature of Defeat for the British Expeditionary Force in the Fall of France.” Thetean 45 (2016): 79–98.

“Frozen in Hell: The Prisoner Exchange Program’s Influence on the American Civil War.” Thetean   44 (2015): 55–66.

Awards, Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships

External

  • Society for Military History Summer Seminar Fellow (July 2024)

  • LTC John William Whitman Research Grant, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania (2023–24)

  • Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship (2022–24)

  • Research Grant, Jeannie Churchill Fund, Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, UK (2020)

  • General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway Research Grant, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania (2020)

  • Hans J. Morgenthau Grand Strategy Fellowship, Notre Dame International Security Center (2020–21)

  • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year Fellowship, Advanced-level Portuguese, US Department of Education and OSU Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) (2020–21)

  • Charles A. and Loyola M. Murphy Endowment Military History Scholarship, Tenth Mountain Division Foundation (2019–20)

  • Andrew Jenson Graduate Fellowship in American Religious History (2017–18)

Internal

  • Helen and Harold Kapiloff Award (2022–23)

  • Dolores and Henry Frey Jr. Graduate Research Fund in Diplomatic and Military History (2022–23)

  • Ruth L. Higgins Memorial Award (2022–23)

  • Lynde and Harry Bradley Semester Writing Fellowship (2021–22)

  • John H. Kaufmann Family Graduate Support Scholarship in American History (2021–22)

  • Graduate Student Research Grant, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University (2020–21)

  • Lieutenant Colonel Sean M. Judge Ph.D. Scholarship in Military History (2020–21)

  • Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship (2018–20)

  • Ohio State University Fellowship, The Graduate School, The Ohio State University (2018–19)

  • Arthur Becker Full-Tuition Scholarship for Interest in Civil War and Military History (2015–16)

  • Full–tuition Academic Merit Scholarship, Brigham Young University (2013–15)

Conference and Workshop Presentations

“Multinational Coalition Warfare and the Allied Experiment in the Mediterranean, 1942–43,” Changing Character of War Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford (June 7, 2023)

“It’s a Hyperthyroid War Department!”: Allied Force Headquarters, Multinational Integration, and Anglo-American Coalition Management in the Mediterranean, 1942–1943,” Alliances in the History of Armed Conflict, 1642–present conference at the British National Army Museum in Chelsea, London (March 24-25 2023)

“Reappraising 10th Mountain Division Patrol Actions in the Northern Italian Apennines, January–February 1945,” Missouri Valley History Conference (March 2022)

“Allies, Adversaries, and Everything In-Between: Military Cooperation and Multilateralism in the Historical Practice of Grand Strategy,” 2021 Hans J. Morgenthau Grand Strategy Seminar hosted by the John Quincy Adams Society and the Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC) (July 2021)

“Life on the Line: Reassessing 10th Mountain Division Patrol Actions in the Northern Italian Apennines, January–February 1945,” 88th Annual Conference for the Society of Military Historians held in Norfolk, Virginia (Remote, May 2021)

“Lighting the Cobra’s Pipe: The Forgotten Team at the Heart of the Brazilian–American Wartime Alliance, 1942–1945,” Presented variations of this paper at the 2021 Military Frontiers Graduate Student Symposium at The Ohio State University; University of Maryland’s HGSA Annual Conference; and the James A. Barnes Graduate Conference, Temple University (March and April 2021)

“Washington’s Window of Opportunity,” Four-person presentation at the Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC) Grand Strategy Debates (March 2021)

“Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: Moving Toward an Entangled History of Brazilian–American Coalition Warfare in Northern Italy, 1944–45," 86th Annual Conference for the Society of Military Historians in Columbus Ohio (May 2019)

“Aage Juul and the World’s War: Resistance, Race, and Internationalism in the Allied Fight through Italy, 1943–45,” Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio (April 2018)

“Forgotten Fronts: The Significance of Scarified Europe in the Aftermath of World War I,” 85th Annual Conference for the Society for Military Historians in Louisville, Kentucky (April 2018).

“A Dane Abroad: Reexamining Resistance in Italy, 1943–1945,” 61st Annual Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska (March 2018)

“The Pigeon, the Hand, and the Holy Lance: How War Transformed Three Everyday Objects into Relics,” Skepsi: Time to Remember graduate conference held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (May 2017)

Specialized Training

Seminars and Workshops

  • Society for Military History Summer Seminar Fellow (July 2024)

  • Hans J. Morgenthau Fellowship Teaching Practicum, John Quincy Adams Society Summer Seminar (July 2021)

  • Military History Writing Seminar, Dr. Geoffrey Parker (Fall 2020, 2021, 2023)

  • “Washington’s Window of Opportunity,” Grand Strategy Presentation, NDISC Grand Strategy Debates (March 2021)

  • Weeklong Grand Strategy Seminar, Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC) (Summer 2020)

Staff Rides

  • “Thucydides, The Sicilian Expedition, and the Peloponnesian Wars,” Weeklong Seminar and Staff Ride, Syracuse, Sicily, Notre Dame Morgenthau Fellowship in Grand Strategy (June 2022)

  • Staff Ride, Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD (Spring 2019)

Professional Service

  • Graduate Student Representative, 2022 Annual Society for Military History Conference Program Committee (2021–22)

  • Co-Organizer, Ohio State University Military Frontiers Graduate Symposium (2020–21)

  • IT Volunteer Organizer, 2019 Society for Military History Conference (Spring 2019)

  • Editor, Thetean Undergraduate History Journal, Brigham Young University (Spring 2016)

Teaching Experience

“Allies, Adversaries, and Everything In-Between: Military Cooperation and Multilateralism in the History of Grand Strategy.” John Quincy Adams Society Summer Seminar on Grand Strategy, part of the NDISC Hans J. Morgenthau Fellowship Teaching Practicum (July 2021)

Discussion Section Leader (Ohio State University)

History 1211: Western Society to 1600: Rise, Collapse, and Recovery, Dr. Geoffrey Parker (Spring, Autumn 2022, Spring, Autumn 2023)

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Ohio State University)

“The History of World War II,” Dr. Peter R. Mansoor (Spring 2020)
“The History of War,” Dr. Mark Grimsley (Autumn 2019)
“The History of Ancient Greece and Rome,” Dr. Peter Vanderpuy. Online, asynchronous. (Autumn 2019)

Teaching Assistant (Brigham Young University)

“World Civilization Before 1500,” Dr. Kendall Brown (Autumn 2016)
“World Civilization after 1500,” Dr. Jeffrey Hardy (Spring 2015)
“World Civilization before 1500,” Dr. Paul Pixton (Autumn 2015)

Work Experience

Script Writer, The Military Show/The Infographics Show (2022)
Created compelling video scripts and historical content for popular video channels with an online audience of more than 12 million subscribers.

RoundGlass Foundation, Research Assistant for Dr. Fernande Raine (2021)
Researched, curated, and assembled materials for innovative, globally oriented K-12 digital curricula aimed at empowering young people, promoting wellbeing, and enacting holistic systems change across the globe.

Pacific Apostle Co-Editor, Publication Apprenticeship (2017–18)
Co-edited a documentary history published by University of Illinois Press and co-authored peer-reviewed history article with Dr. Reid L. Neilson.

Ancestry.com, Content Writer and Researcher (2016–17)
Conducted research summaries on diasporas and historical migrations for early iterations of the AncestryDNA project; produced weekly summaries written for a general audience.

William “Buffalo Bill” Cody Papers Project, Research Assistant (2015)
Conducted research for Dr. Frank Christianson, senior editor on the NEH-funded Papers of William F. Cody project.

Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Research Assistant (2015–16)
Conducted archival research on 20th century western agricultural history and academic institutions during World War II for Dr. Brian Cannon, Redd Center Director at Brigham Young University.

Pembroke-Kings Summer Direct Enrollment, Student Leader (2015)
Student liaison for undergraduate cohort on study abroad at Cambridge University in England.

Language Proficiency

English - Native
Portuguese - Proficient
Spanish - Research Proficient
French - Research Proficient
Italian - Research Proficient
German - Elementary Proficiency

Research Experience

The National Archives, Kew, UK (2015, 2016, 2017, 2022, 2023)
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, Kansas (2022)
Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada (2022)
George C. Marshall Research Center, Lexington, PA (2021).
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington DC (2019)
Liddell Hart Military History Archive, London, UK (2016, 2017, 2023)
Churchill College Archives, Cambridge, UK (2017)
The Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK (2016)
Cambridge University Library Special Collections, UK (2015)
US Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, PA (2019, 2021)
York County Historical Center, York, PA (2021)
10th Mtn. Div. Archival Center, Denver, CO (2019)
The British Library, London, UK (2017)
Imperial War Museum, Special Collections, London (2016)
Ft. Douglas Special Collections, Salt Lake, UT (2014, 2015)
J. Willard Marriott Special Collections, Salt Lake, UT (2017, 2018)
Harold B. Lee Special Collections, Provo, UT (2014, 2015, 2016)

Society Memberships

Society for Military Historians  
Society for Historians on American Foreign Relations
Council for America’s Military Past
U.S. Army Historical Foundation
Organization for American Historians