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James M. Berry

(Ph.D., U.S. History)  MA in Military History, Norwich University, 2016; MEd in Education, Anderson University, 2011; BA in History, Pensacola Christian College, 2008.  Email

James is a PhD candidate focusing on US Army history, specifically Army logistics between the Spanish American War and the First World War. He is working under the direction of Dr. Andrew Wiest.  He is a native of South Carolina and an active duty U.S. Army logistics officer with previous assignments in Fort Stewart, Fort Lee, Germany, Kuwait, and Iraq.  James has traveled extensively through Europe and speaks French proficiently.

James is currently serving as an academic instructor in the History Department at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Prior to joining the U.S. Army, James was a high school history and geography teacher.

Luke Bynum

(M.A. & Ph.D. Military History) MA, Public Service Administration, Texas A&M University, 2018; BA, Political Science, Texas A&M University, 2018.  Email

Luke is a PhD student with a focus on U.S. Army history, with a special research interest in past models of conscription and mobilization. His prior graduate research focused on emerging criminal threat trends in the Houston region.

Luke is a Texan native hailing from Houston Texas. Since graduating from Texas A&M University in 2018 he has served on active duty in the U.S. Army, including four years in the Field Artillery and the Adjutant General Corps with assignments at Fort Riley, Fort Jackson, Fort Cavazos, and rotational deployments to South Korea and Poland.

Upon completion of his degree at Southern Miss, Luke will be an Academic Instructor in the History Department at The United States Military Academy at West Point.

Oscar J. Coles

(PhD, US History) MSc American History, University of Edinburgh (UK), 2018 ; BA Hons, Contemporary Military and International History, University of Salford (UK), 2015.  Email

Oscar is an international student from the United Kingdom. He is working under the direction of Dr. Heather Stur on a dissertation titled "A Soldier's Things: B峄� 膽峄檌 of the People鈥檚 Army of Vietnam and the Things they Carried during the American War."  Oscar has been a recipient of the John E. Gonzales History Scholarship Endowment as well as the Study Abroad Scholarship (twice); he used the opportunity to study Vietnamese at universities in Da Nang and Hanoi.  

Bearington Curtis

(PhD, US History) MA, History, Texas A&M University-Central Texas, 2020; BA, History, Texas A&M University-Central Texas, 2013.  Email

Bear is a PhD candidate whose primary interest in history is the U.S. Army, with a focus on how the Army has historically prepared for future conflicts. His MA thesis, "A Sisyphean Task: Reevaluating Reconstruction in Texas," examined the U.S. Army's role in Texas during Reconstruction. Bea is currently interested in the development and changes made to the National Guard and Army Reserve in the period between the World Wars.  He is working under the direction of Drs. Kevin Greene and Andrew Wiest. 

In 2024-2025, Bear Curtis served as the Dale Center/Center for Military History Fellow in Washington, DC.

Daniel Driss

(Ph.D., U.S. History) MS, Organizational Leadership, Columbus State University, 2019; BA in History, Northern Arizona University, 2012.  Email 

Daniel is a PhD candidate focusing on US Army history, specifically army cavalry and armor formations. At 麻豆传媒色情片, he is working under the direction of Dr. Andrew Wiest.  His previous graduate research focused on the practical application of Servant Leadership while serving as a Commanding Officer in a Combat Arms formation.

He is a native of Arizona and an active-duty U.S. Army armor officer with previous assignments at Fort Stewart, Fort Riley, Fort Benning, Fort Irwin, the Republic of Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Daniel served as an enlisted infantryman for ten years, including three combat tours; while serving he pursued his undergraduate degree and was admitted to Officer Candidate School, where he was commissioned as an armor officer and subsequently assigned to a series of tank units. 

Daniel is currently serving as an academic instructor in the History Department at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, teaching the Superintendent鈥檚 Capstone Course on Officership.

Daniel Fratini

(Ph.D., Military History) MS, History, Texas A&M 鈥� Texarkana, 2024, BS, Criminal Justice, Westfield State University, 2001.  Email

A student of military history, Daniel is entering his first year in the PhD program at Southern Miss. Daniel intends to focus on U.S. Army intelligence gathering, successes, and failures under the direction of Dr. Andrew Wiest.

Daniel worked as an adjunct instructor of History at Texas A&M鈥揟exarkana. While there he received 2nd place in the PLACE (Program for Learning and Community Engagement) graduate paper awards for his paper, 鈥淎 Collapse of Arms: Mexican Military Failure During the Mexican War,鈥� and 2nd place in the Bennie Walthall Graduate History Paper Contest for his paper, 鈥淭he Crusades and Western European Naval Ascendancy.鈥�

Daniel was also a recipient of the Summer 2025 Faculty Seminar at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Daniel has published a book review for De Rei Militari, the Society for Medieval Military History.

Alexandria Heitz

(MA, History); BA, History, Georgia Southern University, 2025.  Email

Alexandria Heitz is a Master's student from Atlanta, Georgia, who graduated from Georgia Southern University in May of 2025. At GSU, she majored in history and minored in anthropology. She assisted in the research, curation, and production of the exhibit, "More than a Name: Commemorating Bulloch County鈥檚 African American Fallen Soldiers of the First World War."  Her senior research project explored the John Paul Jones Papers in GSU's Special Collections to delve into the lives of soldiers from Georgia and the role Georgia played in the Spanish-American War.

Her main area of interest is the Vietnam War. In her paper titled "Resounding Dissent: Women鈥檚 Dissent on the Homefront for the American War in Vietnam,鈥� she pursued research regarding women鈥檚 dissent on the homefront and the profound impact their protest had on United States policy and future movements led by women.  

Sarah Anne Hogue

(PhD, U.S. History)  MA in U.S. History, University of 麻豆传媒色情片, 2021. BA in History, BA in English Writing, minor in Public History, summa cum laude with honors, Mississippi College, 2019.  Email

Sarah is a PhD candidate at 麻豆传媒色情片, whose interests focus on 17th- and 18th-century colonial American history with a specific focus on gender. Her research examines how and to what extent the legal doctrine of coverture鈥攁 legal classification that severely limited married women鈥檚 legal rights to own property鈥攆unctioned in the colonial period in New England. She is working under the direction of Dr. Kyle Zelner to expand on the research in her Master鈥檚 thesis, 鈥淲omen Under Colonial Coverture: Divorce, Property Rights, and Inheritance in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1690.鈥� Specifically, Sarah wants to examine the effect that various colonial wars had on coverture, women鈥檚 property rights, and the availability of divorce. In 2020, Sarah won an American History Education Award from the Mississippi Chapter of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America for her work on colonial American history. 

Sarah is the 2025-2026 Pat and Jean Welsh Dale Center Graduate Fellow.  She is also the Project Director of the Dale Center's .

Riley Houston

(MA, History) BA, History, Millsaps College, 2022.  Email

Riley Houston is an Master鈥檚 student from Madison, Mississippi, who graduated magna cum laude from Millsaps College, where she majored in history with a minor in anthropology.  Her undergraduate honors project, 鈥淐ivil War Nurses and the Cult of True Womanhood,鈥� examined female nurses during the American Civil War and the ways in which they inverted Antebellum gender ideology. For her Master's thesis, Riley plans to examine the ways in which the backlash to women's antiwar movements in America have contributed to women's rights being restricted in the post-war era.  Riley is working under the direction of Dr. Laura Mammina. 

Caleb Lead

(PhD, History) MA, World History, SUNY College at Brockport, 2022; BA, History, Saint John Fischer College, 2019.  Email

Caleb is a PhD student from East Palmyra, New York. His research interests are focused on British Special Forces during and after WWII, as well as from the early 20th century to the middle of the Cold War. He plans to focus on missions in Eastern Europe and Latin America by Special Operations personnel as they related to British imperial objectives and how the experiences shaped modern understandings of guerilla war, decolonization, and the emotions history of British special forces.  Caleb is working under the direction of Dr. Katya Maslakowski.

Caleb won the Terry Gore Prize Winning Paper Research Award in Military History at SUNY Brockport for his paper, 鈥淭he Killing Field of 1864: How the Overland Campaign of the American Civil War Changed Warfare.鈥� 

Andrew Leib

(MA and PhD in Military History)  BA in International Studies and Political Science, Virginia Military Institute, 2016.  Email

Andrew is a MA and PhD student studying in preparation for an assignment as a History Department academic instructor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. His research interests include the study of the history of U.S. Army strategy and preparation for large scale combat operations in the 19th and 20th centuries.  Andrew is a native of Pennsylvania and a 2016 Distinguished Military Graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. He is an active duty US Army military intelligence officer with previous assignments at Fort Stewart, the Republic of Korea, Fort Jackson, Fort Huachuca, and Fort Johnson.

Justin Major

(PhD, U.S. History) MA, U.S. History, University of 麻豆传媒色情片, 2020; BA, History and Film and Media Arts, magna cum laude, Louisiana State University, 2017.  Email

At LSU, Justin won the McCormick Prize for the best undergraduate paper in military history at the 2018 Missouri Valley History Conference. His research focuses on the Vietnam War, particularly the history of Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in the early 1960s. For his MA at 麻豆传媒色情片, he examined the effectiveness of ARVN combat operations from 1962-1963, arguing that ARVN was more successful than previously believed. For his PhD, he will continue his research into ARVN under the direction of Dr. Andrew Wiest.  In 2022-2023, Justin completed a historical research fellowship with the U.S. Army's Center for Military History in Washington, DC.

John Nall

(PhD, History); MA, History, Florida Atlantic University, 2023;  BA, History, Florida Atlantic University, 2019  Email

John is a native Floridian and PhD student with a research focus on 20th century global military history, especially World War II, through the cultural perspective of combatants and non-combatants. His MA thesis, 鈥淔lying with Wings of Determination: British, Soviet and American Women Pilots during World War II,鈥� analyzed Allied forces鈥� women pilots and argued that they flew in specialized, and sometimes militarized, female aviation groups during World War II. At Southern Miss, he plans to focus on the cultural implications of the decline of the British Empire on British soldiers during World War II.  He is working under the direction of Dr. Katya Maslakowski.

In June 2025, John was a fellow of the National World War II Museum鈥檚 Faculty Seminar in World War II History. 

Anamarie Rangel

(MA. War and Society; Graduate Certificate in Public History) BA, History, Angelo State University, 2022.  Email

Anamarie is an Master's student from San Angelo, Texas. She attended Angelo State University where she earned her BA in History in 2022. During her undergraduate years, Anamarie served as co-editor and co-founder of an undergraduate journal in history and geography: The Santa Angela Review. She also interpreted Texas and U.S. frontier history as a living historian/reenactor at Fort Concho National Historic Landmark. 

Anamarie is studying the connections between navalism, nationalism, and imperialism in the U.S. and Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Anamarie's research focuses on the role of Buffalo Soldiers in the Philippine-American War, comparing their nation-building efforts on the western frontier and in the Philippines. Anamarie is working under the direction of Dr. Heather Stur. After graduation, she hopes to work in the field of public history.

Christopher Robinson

(PhD, History); MA, History, Southeastern Louisiana University, 2023; BA, English and Creative Writing, Southeastern Louisiana University, 2016.  Email

Chris is a PhD student focusing on military history and Oral History, specifically recording, preserving, and presenting veterans鈥� stories of the Global War on Terror. Between his BA and MA degrees, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where he spent four years as an infantryman. While studying for his MA, he wrote 鈥淭he Last Deployment Project 鈥� Voices from HKIA鈥�, a thesis focusing on the experience of the troops during the Non-combatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) that took place in Kabul, Afghanistan in August 2021.  He has conducted more than seventy interviews, with more than 250 hours of audio and video recording. At 麻豆传媒色情片, he hopes to hone his oral history skills under the direction of Dr. Kevin Greene.

Travis Salley

(PhD, U.S. History) MM in Music History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2015; BA in Music (in cursu honorum), University of Nevada-Reno, 2013).  Email

Travis is a PhD candidate focusing on US military cultural history, specifically regarding US military marching cadences and their impact on military culture through a racial and gendered lens. He is studying under the direction of Dr. Heather Stur. 

Travis is a classical pianist and musicologist. His master鈥檚 thesis, 鈥淪ound Off! An Introduction of the Study of American Military Marching Cadences,鈥� was featured in the NPR radio show "A Way with Words." 

Travis is active-duty Army Signal officer, with past assignments in Puerto Rico, Marshall Islands, Korea, Fort Stewart, Fort Jackson, and Fort Huachuca. Having finishing his coursework, Capt. Salley is currently assigned as History Instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Christian Singletary

PhD (U.S. History); MA, War and Society, University of 麻豆传媒色情片, 2025. BA, History, minor in Political Science, Louisiana State University of Alexandria, 2023.  Email

Christian graduated with a major in history and a minor in political science from Louisiana State University of Alexandria in 2023 and an MA in War and Society from the University of 麻豆传媒色情片 in 2025. His MA thesis, 鈥淩iders on the Storm: American Exceptionalism, Masculinity, and Frontierism in the 28th Division 鈥淥ver There,鈥� 1917-18,鈥� examined American ideologies in practice through the training and combat experiences of the Pennsylvania National Guard in World War I.

As a doctoral student, Christian plans to continue researching the experiences, ideologies, and memory of citizen soldiers in the Great War under the direction of Dr. Andrew Wiest.

Abel Ugwu

PhD (African History); MA, History, University of 麻豆传媒色情片, 2025; BA, History, University of Nigeria, 2021.  Email
 
Abel is from Enugu, Nigeria, and studied for his bachelor's in history at the University of Nigeria. Abel's BA thesis focused on the gender relations among academics in Southeastern Nigeria at the end of the Nigeria-Biafranan War in 1970. As an undergraduate, Abel worked as a research assistant for his undergraduate mentor: processing archival materials, arranging interviews for oral histories, and photocopying primary and secondary source materials.

At Southern Miss, Abel plans to examine a significant aspect of Nigeria鈥檚 colonial history. Using colonial Eastern Nigeria as a case study, his research will focus on understanding how the colonial police were utilized as an administrative apparatus that provided coercive backing to the legal provisions that enhanced colonial consolidation and longevity in Nigeria as well as in wider British West Africa.  he is working under the direction of Dr. Bafumiki Mocheregwa.  

Jackson Volkert

(MA, History) BA, History and Political Science, University of 麻豆传媒色情片, 2023.  Email

Jack Volkert is a Florida native and master's student whose current research focus is on the Air War in the Pacific Theater of World War 2.  Hew is working under the direction of Dr. Ken Swope.  
 
Jack graduated from the University of 麻豆传媒色情片 with two bachelor degrees, one in history and the other in political science. His undergraduate history capstone project was a unit history of the African-American 92nd Infantry Division during World War 2 and how its combat history in Italy was affected by racism.  

Brian Washam

(PhD, U.S. History) MA, History, University of 麻豆传媒色情片, 2022; BA, History, University of Oklahoma, 2019.  Email

Brian is from Vinita, Oklahoma and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi. He received his BA in History from the University of Oklahoma and his M.A. in history from the University of 麻豆传媒色情片.  Brian's Master's thesis examined at the motivation of Vietnam veterans to return to Vietnam as tourists and their experiences during their trips.

As a Ph.D. student, Brian is interested in exploring the ways that Vietnam veterans may have fostered improvements in international relations between the US and Vietnam in the aftermath of the conflict by returning to Vietnam on good-will missions.  He is working under the direction of Dr. Andrew Wiest.

Dallas Williamson

(MA, History) BA, History and English, University of 麻豆传媒色情片 2023.  Email

Dallas is a Master鈥檚 student focusing on British and American War and Society from 1870 鈥� 1950. Her current research focus is centered on the active role of American and British women in World War I, both on the home front and abroad. She is working under the direction of Dr. Andrew Wiest.

Dallas鈥檚 senior undergraduate capstone project at 麻豆传媒色情片 concerned the impact of WWII on the community of Hawaii after the attack on Pearl Harbor, as well as how its home front experience differed from that of the continental United States.

James Witkoski

(PhD, U.S. History) MA, History, Rowan University, 2022; Certificate of Graduate Studies in Holocaust and Genocide Education, 2022; BA, History, Rowan University, 2017.  Email

James is a PhD candidate from Marlton, NJ. He attended Rowan University where he earned both his BA and MA in History, as well as a Certificate of Graduate Studies in Holocaust and Genocide Education. Most of his early research has focused on Polish-Jewish relations during World War II.

As a doctoral student, James is researching  the disconnect in the chain of command in the U.S. Army from a bottom-up perspective during the Vietnam War, and how after-action reports and other intelligence was altered as it went up the chain of command (preferably from the company level upwards). Based on this flawed intelligence, James hopes his research will make clear if divisional and other military commanders were hindered in their ability to adequately plan and respond to what was happening at the tactical level. James is studying under the direction of Drs. Heather Stur and Andrew Wiest.