Craig Bruce Smith

Curriculum Vitae
October 2022

Joint Advanced Warfighter School

National Defense University craigbrucesmith.com
craig.b.smith.civ@ndu.edu drcraigbrucesmith@gmail.com

EDUCATION

PhD, American history, Brandeis University, 2014

MA, American history, Brandeis University, 2009
MA, European history, St. John’s University, 2006
BA, history, St. John’s University, 2005
summa cum laude and salutatorian

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2022– Associate Professor of History, Joint Advanced Warfighter School, Joint
Forces Staff College, National Defense University

2021–2022 Associate Professor of Military History, US Army School of Advanced

Military Studies, Command and General Staff College

2019–2021 Assistant Professor of Military History, US Army School of Advanced

Military Studies

2016–2019 Assistant Professor of History, William Woods University

2016–2019 Director, History Program, William Woods University

2015–2016 Lecturer, Tufts University

2011, 2013–2015 Instructor, Brandeis University

PUBLICATIONS

Book

2020 American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. (Paperback)

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2018 American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. (Hardcover)
E-Book

2016 George Washington’s Lessons in Ethical Leadership. Co-authored with Dan

Demetriou. Mount Vernon, VA: George Washington’s Mount Vernon. (George
Washington Leadership Institute's “Lessons in Leadership Series.”)

Journal Articles

2013 “Claiming the Centennial: The American Revolution’s Blood and Spirit in Boston,
1870–1876,” Massachusetts Historical Review, Vol. 15.

2007 “Both Sides of the Border: The Land and Loyalty of Daniel Merritt,” the Westchester
Historian, Vol. 83, No. 2, Spring.

Book Chapters

Forthcoming “The Devil from Dedham: Murder, Militias, Manly Virtue, and Measuring Up in
Massachusetts,” in A Republic of Scoundrels edited by David Head and Timothy C.
Hemmis, Pegasus Books.
Book Reviews

2020 “Bob Drury and Tom Clavin’s Valley Forge,” The Journal of American History,
September.

2020 “Serena Zabin’s The Boston Massacre: A Family History,” The New Criterion, March
5.

2020 “C. Bradley Thompson’s America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the
American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It,” The Federalist. January
10.

2019 “Christian Di Spigna’s Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Joseph Warren, the
American Revolution’s Lost Hero,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 106 Iss. 3,
December.

2019 “American Revolution Reborn. Edited by Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman,”
National Political Science Review. Summer.

2019 “Becoming America’s Greatest Villain: Review of Joyce Lee Malcolm’s The Tragedy
of Benedict Arnold: A American Life,” Law & Liberty.

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2019 “Warring for America: Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812. Edited by Nicole
Eustace and Fredrika J. Teute,” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Vol.
117, No. 2, Spring.

2019 “A Conflicted Idea of America: Jill Lepore’s These Truths: A History of the United
States – Part One,” the University Bookman. February 24.

2018 “Eric Hinderaker’s Boston’s Massacre,” The William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 75,
No. 2, April.

2016 “David L. Preston’s Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road
to Revolution,” Journal of Military History. Vol. 80, No. 1, January.

2014 “Bertram Wyatt-Brown’s A Warring Nation: Honor, Race, and Humiliation in

America and Abroad,” Journal of Military History. Vol. 78, No. 3, July.

2014 “Steven E. Siry’s Liberty’s Fallen Generals: Leadership and Sacrifice in the
American War of Independence,” Journal of Military History. Vol. 78, No. 2, April.

2013 “Gordon A. Craig’s Knowledge and Power: Essays on Politics, Culture, and War,”
H-War, H-Net Reviews, Oct.

Book Manuscripts in Preparation

2025 Securing Victory, 1782-1783 (under contract, US Army Center for Military History)

TBD “The Greatest Man in the World”: A Global History of George Washington

Web-Based Publications

2020 “The Birth of the US Army,” Constituting America.

2020 “The Battle of Jumonville Glen,” Constituting America.

2019 “American Revolution and Expanding the States,” Constituting America.

2015 “Social Education,” Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington.

2015 “Status of Slaves in Will,” Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington.

2014 “More than Just a John Hancock: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution Collections,” Brandeis Special Collections Spotlight, Jan.

2013 “The Dagworthy Controversy,” Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington,

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 http://www.mountvernon.org/encyclopedia

2013 “Revolutionary Books and Revolutionary Wars,” Brandeis Special Collections

Spotlight, Nov.

2011 English Text Transcription, “Anno 13tio Elizabethæ Certain Arguments collected
out of the scriptures out of the civill [sic] Law & the Common exhibited to the
Queens Majestie [sic] by some of both houses against the Queen of Scots,” the
Newton Project, www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk

2011 “Isaac Newton manuscript,” Brandeis Special Collections Spotlight, May.

2011 “The Man Who Would Not Be Vice President: The Daniel Webster Collection,”
Brandeis Special Collections Spotlight, January.

2010 “Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum),” Brandeis Special Collections

Spotlight, September.

Other Publications

2022 “In the Eyes of the World,” Mount Vernon Magazine, Fall/Winter

2022 “The Spirit of 1776,” Time. October 14.

2022 “Ken Burn Shows Benjamin Franklin’s Many Contradictions,” Time. April 4.

2021 “How George Washington Didn’t Lead,” co-authored with Lindsay M. Chervinsky,
Noemie Emery, and David Head. the Bulwark. February 22.

2020 “Bernard Bailyn’s Unfinished Revolution,” Spectator USA. August 11.

2020 “Revolution then: The Patriot Stands Alone,” Spectator USA. June 29.

2020 “Washington go Brach,” Spectator USA. March 17.

2020 “Washington Returns History to the History Channel,” Spectator USA. February 24.

2019 “Virginian Honor,” Trend & Tradition: The Magazine of Colonial Williamsburg.
Summer.

2011 “Nuremberg War Crimes Trial,” the Encyclopedia of War, Wiley-Blackwell [peer
reviewed].

2011 “Special Collections Spotlight: Nuremberg Chronicle,” Imprint, Vol. 31, No. 1,
winter/spring.
Op-Eds

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2022 “Boris Johnson is No Cincinnatus – But George Washington Was,” the Hill,
September 8.

2022 “A Presidential Candidate Pledge Can Right the Wrongs of an Infamous Day,” the
Hill, January 6, co-authored with Nicholas Mosvick.

2021 “Joe Biden Should Follow George Washington’s Lead and ‘Inoculate All the
Troops,’” Time, August 9.

2021 “The Declaration is the idea of America that unites us,” the Hill, July 4.

2021 “Renaming U.S. Army Bases Should Start with America’s Unrecognized Veterans,”
Time, May 31.

2021 “West Point’s honor code returns to the 18th century,” the Hill, April 21.

2021 “How Biden Can Fix Trump’s 1776 Disaster,” Politico, January 22.

2021 “Inauguration Day Is What’s Best About America,” the Bulwark, January 20.

2021 “The Last Action Hero and the First President,” the Bulwark, January 15.

2021 “Transition of Power: Greatness Meets Infamy,” the Hill, January 10.

2020 “West Point needs new honor code after cheating scandal. Make it a lifelong ethics
compass,” USA Today, December 24.

2020 “A Monument for the World,” The Hill, July 12.

2020 “No Martial Law Is Not Coming to America,” National Review, April 1.

2020 “Speaking of the Founders…,” the New Criterion, January 14.

2019 “America Needs to Celebrate Washington’s Resignation Day,” Capital Gazette,

December 23.

2019 “How American Honor Became a Potent Political Weapon,” Washington Post,
October 25. Reprinted by Stamford Advocate, Henderson Times-News, New Bern
Sun Journal, The Free Press - Kinston.com.

2019 “The Minds and Hearts of the People,” University of North Carolina Press Blog,
July 3.

2019 “Why We Shouldn’t Fear a Trump Dictatorship,” Washington Post, June 29.

2018 “You Can’t Celebrate America’s Independence While Vilifying the Founders,” The
Federalist, July 4.

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2018 “What Color was George Washington’s Hippopotamus?” Washington Examiner,
May 31.

2018 “Claims of a ‘Very Honorable’ Kim Jung Un are Trump-ed Up,” University of North
Carolina Press Blog, May 4.

2018 “At Hofstra, they’re coming for Thomas Jefferson,” New York Daily News, April 9.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

2022 Department of the Army Civilian Service Achievement Medal

2022 Bronze Pen Award (short article writing), Command and General Staff College

2021 Letter of Recognition from Brigadier General Donn Hill, Deputy Commanding
General/Provost of Army University

2021 Bronze Pen Award (short article writing), Command and General Staff College

2018 Research Grant ($25,000), PNC Charitable Trusts

2017 Residential Fellowship, David Library of the American Revolution

2016 “Above and Beyond” Award for Classroom Excellence, William Woods University

2016 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society

2015 Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington Fellowship

2014 Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, Brandeis University

2014 Nominee, Allan Nevins Prize, The Society of American Historians

2013 Washington College Fellowship in Early American History, Boston Athenaeum

2013 Mellon Dissertation Research Grant, Brandeis University

2012 World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship, Smith Richardson Foundation

2012 Mellon Dissertation Research Grant, Brandeis University

2011 Robert M. & Annetta J. Coffelt and Robert M. Coffelt, Jr. Fellowship, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

2011 Short-term Fellowship for Jefferson-related projects, Robert H. Smith International

Center for Jefferson Studies

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2011 West Point Summer Seminar in Military History, United States Military Academy

2011 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship, Anderson House,

Washington, D.C.

2011 Mellon Dissertation Research Grant, Brandeis University

2011 Travel Grant, Chicago Conference on the American Revolution, the Karla Scherer
Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago

2008–2013 Rose and Irving Crown Fellowship, Brandeis University

2001–2005 Presidential Full Scholarship, St. John’s University

INVITED TALKS

2022 “‘The Interests of Our Dearest Country’: Honor, and the Continental Army,”
American Revolution Mohawk Valley Conference, Fort Plain Museum, June.

2022 George Washington’s Birthday Keynote Address. Kansas City Sons of the American
Revolution, February.

2021 Conversation with Lindsay M. Chervinsky and Nicole Penn on George Washington,
American Purpose, February 18.

2021 “‘Teach Them How To Say Goodbye:’ How George Washington Became the
Political Ideal by Giving Up Power,” George Washington Leadership Institute, Mount
Vernon, January 20.

2020 “‘Gentlemen Soldiers’: Honor, George Washington, and Ethics of the American
Revolution,” Naval War College, December 16.

2019 “‘In the Name of Our Common Country:’ George Washington, Honor, and the
Continental Army,” Society of the Cincinnati Triennial Meetings, Philadelphia, PA
May 10.

2019 “American Honor,” The Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Chicago, IL. June 1.

2018 “Washington’s Honor,” Missouri River Regional Library, Jefferson City, MO.
December 17.

2018 “George Washington’s Honor,” Boone County History and Culture Center, November
17.

2018 “The American Revolution and the Democratization of Honor,” St. John’s University,
November 9.

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2018 “ ‘The Interests of Our Dearest Country’: George Washington, Honor, and the
Continental Army,” Fraunces Tavern Museum, November 8.

2018 “‘Union and National Honor’: The Society of the Cincinnati and the Ethics of the
New Republic,” Anderson House, Museum and Library of the Society of the
Cincinnati, October 16.

2018 “‘Open Violation of Honor’: Concord, Lexington, and the Ethics of the

Revolutionary War,” Concord Museum (part of Concord Festival of Authors),
October 5.

2018 “Honor and Ethics: The Foundation of George Washington’s Leadership,” Osher
Lifelong Learning Institute, Brandeis University, October 4.

2018 “American Honor,” Massachusetts Historical Society, October 3.

2018 “American Honor,” Daniel Boone Regional Library, September 19.

2018 “Daughters of Liberty, Women of Honor: The Female Ethics of the American
Revolution,” Daughters of the American Revolution (Columbia, MO chapter),
September 8.

2018 “Virginian Honor: The Ethics of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson,” Virginia
Historical Society, September 6.

2018 “George Washington’s Honor: Ethics, Leadership, and the American Revolution,”
Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, August 9.

2018 “The Democratization of American Honor,” Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MO, August
8.

2018 “‘A Knightly Personage’: The Honor and Ambition of Andrew Jackson,” The
Hermitage, July 1.

2018 “‘Gentlemen Soldiers’: Honor, George Washington, and the Continental Army,”
David Library of the American Revolution, April 21.

2017 “‘Early to Rise’: Benjamin Franklin and the Creation of Ascending Honor,” Kinder
Institute on Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri-Columbia, September
15. * Filmed for C-SPAN

2017 “Leadership Lessons from George Washington,” Omicron Delta Kappa Nation
Leadership Honor Society Conference, William Woods University, February 21.

2016 “An Education in Ethics: Colonial Colleges and Early American Thought,” William
Woods University, November 3.

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2016 “Atlantic Abolitionism and National Reputation: The Intersection of Ethics and
Policy in the United States and Britain,” Massachusetts Historical Society, July 20.

2015 “Washington’s Ethics,” Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George
Washington, July 17.

2014 “Advice from George Washington,” Commencement Diploma Ceremony, Brandeis

University, May 18.

2014 “George Washington and the History of Honor,” Institute for Honor Symposium,
Washington and Lee University, March 29.

2013 “From Words to War: Revolution,” Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special
Collections, Brandeis University, November 14.

2013 “From Words to Thoughts to Actions: The Ideological and Literary Formation of
George Washington,” Boston Athenaeum, August 12.

2012 “Rightly to Be Great: Ideas of Honor and Virtue among the American Founders,”
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, January 10.

2011 “Rightly to Be Great: Ideas of Honor and Virtue among the American Founders,”
Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, September 29.

2011 “Teaching the Military History of the American Revolution,” West Point Summer
Seminar in Military History, June 16.

2006 “Gentlemen of War,” Rye Historical Society, August 26.

2006 “Both Sides of the Border: The Land and Loyalty of Daniel Merritt,” Rye Historical
Society, August 12.

CONFERENCES

Panels Organized

2021 America’s Revolutionary Moment: New Approaches to the Continental Army

(roundtable), Society for Military History Annual Meeting. May 20–23.

2021 New Looks at Old Men (roundtable), Consortium on the Revolutionary Era,
1750-1850 Annual Conference, February 20.

2018 Co-organizer, Between Emotion and Ideology in the Age of Revolution (roundtable),
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture Annual Meeting, June
14–17.

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2014 America’s Other Soldiers: African Americans, Children, and Women in the War of
Independence, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture Annual
Meeting, June 12–15.

2014 Transnational Abolitionism: Understanding Slavery and Freedom in a Global Context,

Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 10–13.

2014 Defining Honor: The Changing Nature of Ethics in Society, American Historical
Association Annual Meeting, January 2–5.

2013 Leading with Ethics: Morality, Honor, Virtue and the Evolution of the American
Officer, International Society for Military Ethics Conference, October 13–16.

2013 Honor and Justice, From Enemies to Allies: An International Conference on the War
of 1812 and its Aftermath, United States Naval Academy, June 12–16.

Papers Presented

2022

2022 “‘Plain Names Worthy of Titles’: George Washington and the American Founders
Through British Eyes,” the Association of British American Nineteenth Century
Historians Conference, April 7–9.

2021 “The Father of Many Countries: George Washington as an International Figure,”

Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 Annual Conference, February 20.

2019 “‘The Very Model of a Modern Major-General’: Crafting the Image of George
Washington,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Conference, November 7–10.

2018 Roundtable Discussant, “Between Emotion and Ideology in the Age of Revolution,”
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture Annual Meeting, June
14–17.

2018 Co-presenter with Ms. Paige Bichsel (undergraduate mentee) “Washington: American
Founder, Global Figure,” Missouri Conference on History, March 14–16.

2016 “The Uncertain Fate of Female Soldiers: Honor versus Disgrace in the American
Revolution,” International Society for Military Ethics Conference, January 29–30.

2015 “Stamping on American Honor: British Taxation and the Collectivization of Colonial
Ethical Identity,” “So Sudden an Alteration”: The Causes, Course, and Consequences
of the American Revolution, Massachusetts Historical Society Conference, April 9.

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2014 “Women of Honor: Feminine Evolution through Dedication to the American
Revolution,” Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture Annual
Meeting, June 12–15.

2014 “Redemption: The American Revolution and Abolitionism in Britain and the United
States,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 10–13.

2014 “The Formation of American Honor and the Path to Revolution,” American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2–5.

2013 “A Test of Virtue and Honor: Revolution, Morality, and the Continental Army,”
International Society for Military Ethics Conference, October 13–16.

2013 “The Devil from Dedham: Murder, Masculinity, and Mistrust in Early Republican
Massachusetts,” New England Historical Association Conference, October 12.

2013 “Death and Dishonor: The Changing Nature of Dueling in the Early Republic,”
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, July 18–21.

2013 “No Peace Without Honor: The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, the Struggle between
Personal and National Honor, and the Coming of the War of 1812,” From Enemies to
Allies: An International Conference on the War of 1812 and its Aftermath, United
States Naval Academy, June 12–16.

2013 “Can Honor Justify Violence?: Boycotts, Riots, Massacres, and the Coming of the
American Revolution,” 2nd Annual Graduate Conference on Human Rights, New
York University, April 17.

2012 “Institutionalizing Honor in the Early Republic,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Conference, November 1–2 (conference canceled due to hurricane).

2011 “Claiming the Centennial: Descent and Dissent in Boston, 1870–1876,” New
England American Studies Association Conference, November 4–5.

2009 “Washington’s Honor,” Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate

Conference, Virginia Tech, March 20–21.

Panel Chair/Comment

2018 Comment, “In Relation to Washington: Soldiers and the Aftermath of the Revolution,
1783-1800,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, July 19–22.

2018 “Jonathan Edwards on the Fringes of the American Enlightenment,” Omohundro

Institute of Early American History & Culture Annual Meeting, June 14–17.

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2018 Chair, “Beyond the Continent,” the Cambridge History of America and the World
Book Conference, May 17-19.

2016 “Important Women Thinkers in the Just War Tradition,” International Society for
Military Ethics Conference, January 29–30.

2013 “Imagining the State in Early America,” New England Historical Association
Conference, April 20.

MEDIA

Television

2020 Consultant, Smithsonian Channel.

2019 Consultant, NBC News – London/MSNBC, August.

2019 “The Continental Army,” Lectures in History Series, American History TV, C-SPAN
3, June 29.

2019 Consultant, “George Washington & His First Love, Mary Philipse,” CBS Sunday
Morning, February 17.

2019 “George Washington’s New York,” CBS 2 New York, January 10.

2018 America Trends, You Too America, November 21.

2018 America Trends, You Too America, October 26.

2018 America Trends, You Too America, July 19.

2017 “Benjamin Franklin’s Views on Honor,” American History TV, C-SPAN 3, October 8.

2017 "William Woods professor uses Inauguration Day to educate students," KOMU-TV,
January 20.

Podcasts

2020 “America’s Founding Fathers,” History Hack, September 23.

2020 “George Washington’s Constitutional Legacy,” We the People, National Constitution

Center, February 20.

2019 “Teaching History in Tumultuous Times: The Importance of Studying U.S. History,”
Tenth Period, Bill of Rights Institute, October 16.

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2019 Acton Line, Acton Institute, July 3.

2018 In the Past Lane, October 31.

2018 Conversations at the Washington Library, August.

2018 “American Honor,” The Age of Jackson Podcast, August 10.

2018 “History of History: Bertram Wyatt-Brown’s Southern Honor,” The Age of Jackson
Podcast, August 6.

2018 “American Honor,” The Art of Manliness Podcast, July 3.

Radio

2021 “Most Of The West Point Cadets Who Cheated On A Virtual Exam Will Be Allowed
To Remain Enrolled,” NPR News, March 8.

2019 Tom Kearney Show, News Radio 680 WPTF, January 15.

2018 Mike Slater Show, AM 760-KFMB, July 9.

2018 Doc Kirby’s “Book Bit,” WTBF-AM/FM, July 8.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Joint Advanced Warfighting School – Joint Forces Staff College/National Defense

University

Theory and History

The American Revolution: Operational Art and Strategic Leadership

School of Advanced Military Studies – Command and General Staff College

Fundamentals of Operational Art

Foundations of Operational Art
Reflection of Operational Warfare
Strategic Context of Operational Art
Design and Operational Art

William Woods University

American Revolution

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Native America
Hamilton: An American Story
Biography as History
Royal America
Civil War
Turning Points
History of War
Teaching History
Senior Seminar
World War II
Daughters of Liberty, Suffragists, and Feminists: The Story of Women in America
Early America and United States History: Colonization, Revolution, and Civil War
Modern US History: From Reconstruction to Superpower
The History of the United States I
The History of the United States II
The Rise and Fall of Empires: Europe from the French Revolution to World War I
Renaissance and Reformation
Social Movements of the 1960s
Liberals, Conservatives, and Radicals of the 20th Century

Brandeis University

Abigail and John Adams: A Revolutionary Marriage

Preserving Boston’s Past: Public History and Digital Humanities
Revolutionary Lives: The Ideals and Ethics of Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, and Washington
The American Revolution: Radical or Conservative?
The Women of the American Revolution
American Slavery, Freedom, and Civil War
American Military History
Colonial America
Generals and Gentlemen: The American Military and Ethical Leadership
“First in the Hearts of His Countrymen”: The Life of George Washington
America in War and Peace
Atlantic Abolitionism
The Battles of Boston
The Presidency and the People in American Society
American Honor
Henry VIII and His Wives: Marriage, Religion, and Intrigue in the Tudor Court
American Revolution – Co-taught with David Hackett Fischer

Tufts University

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815

Colonial North America and the Atlantic World to 1763

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Emmanuel College

Adjunct Professor

US History to 1877
US History since 1877
Modern World History

Lesley University

Adjunct Professor

The History of Boston

Suffolk University

Lecturer

Empires and Globalization II

SAMS MASTERS THESES ADVISED

2022 Garrett Chandler, “Culture and Diplomacy: Understanding Chochtaw-US Relations,

1812-1861”

2022 Nicole L. Chappell, “Maintaining Options and Deterrence”

2022 Andrew W. Corwell, “A Second Great White Fleet: The Role of US Coast Guard
Cutters in Twenty-First Century Competition”

2022 Benjamin M. Gallo, “A Service of Storytellers: Myth and Transformation in the

United States Marine Corps”

2022 Thomas C. Miller, “The Art of Maintaining Order: Operational Art and the Citizen
Soldier”

2022 Michael V. Pierri, “World War II Defensive Lines and A2AD: Is Russian A2AD a
Modern Maginot Line or a Myth?”

2022 Brett T. Wright, “Wash, Rinse, and Repeat?: What Army Modernization Should
Learn from the Past”

2021 Ethan R. Akerberg, “Confronting the Past for the Future: A Way Ahead for Joint
Force Information”

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2021 Nathan R. Catching, “Back to the Drawing Board: Redesigning Leaders for Joint
Task Force (JTF) Command in 2035”

2021 Aravind Dileepan, “Problem of Paris: Courage in the Ages of Drones”

2021 Michael B. Hobgood, “Trouble with Friends: The Franco-American Alliance at the
Siege of Savannah, 1779”

2021 Michael R. Kearnes, “Placing the Unit First: Building Combat Effectiveness and
Esprit de Corps”

2021 Matthew S. Lund, “America’s First Military Professional: General George

Washington at Valley Forge”

2021 Ryan K. Yamauchi, “Army Leaders and the Multi-Domain Operations Mentality: A
Theoretical Approach”

PHD DISSERTATION COMMITTEES

In progress Sarah Beth Gable, “Policing the Revolution: Massachusetts Communities and the
Committees of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety, 1773-1783,” Brandeis
University

In progress Susan Brynne Long, “‘The Disagreeable Situation’: Prisoner of War,

Civilian-Military Relations, and the American Revolution,” University of Delaware

In progress Kelsa Pellettiere, “The Politics of Friendship: The Diplomacy of Benjamin Franklin,”
University of Mississippi

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Library Liaison, School of Advanced Military Studies/Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research
Library
Member, Higher Learning Commission Assurance Ethics Committee, Command and General
Staff College
Social Media Manager, School of Advanced Military Studies
Curriculum Re-Design Committee, School of Advanced Military Studies
Chair, Curriculum Committee, William Woods University
Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of the Early Republic
Member, Academic Integrity Committee, William Woods University
Member, Lasky Book Prize Committee, Center for Political History, Lebanon Valley College
Mentor-Mentee Research Project with undergraduate student on Spanish, German, and British
portrayals of George Washington
Member, Curriculum Committee, William Woods University

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Member, Academic Honor Code Committee, William Woods University
Member, Equality Matters: Conservations on Gender and Race—A Symposium, William Woods
University
Founder and Faculty Advisor, The Society of Historians, William Woods University
Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, William Woods University
Faculty Advisor, National Society of Leadership and Success, William Woods University,
2017-18 (chapter awarded the Order of Sigma in 2018)
Organizer, “Hail to the Chief”: The Presidency and American Character (lecture series), William
Woods University
Historical Consultant, US Postal Service
Contributor, George Washington Leadership Institute at Mount Vernon
Contributor, Honorethics.org
Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of Military History
Manuscript Reviewer, Massachusetts Historical Review

RELATED EMPLOYMENT

2020– Contributor, Spectator USA

2013 Assistant, Mellon-Sawyer Seminar: “Rethinking the Age of Revolution: Rights,

Representation, and the Global Imaginary,” Brandeis University

2013, Archival Assistant, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections,
2010–2011 Brandeis University

2006–2008 History Teacher, Holy Cross High School

2006 Archival Intern, Timothy Knapp House Archives, Rye Historical Society

2005–06 Tour Guide, Radio City Music Hall

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop on Digital Methods for Military
History, Northeastern University

2011 West Point Summer Seminar in Military History, United States Military Academy

2010–2011 Mellon Interdisciplinary Seminar, Brandeis University

LANGUAGES

German
Spanish

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

International Society for Military Ethics (ISME)

Military Writers Guild
Society for Military History (SMH)
Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH)

REFERENCES

David Hackett Fischer, University Professor Emeritus of History, Brandeis University.

415 South Street MS 036 Waltham, MA 02453 (781) 736-2289 fischer@brandeis.edu

Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation; Saunders
Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies; Professor of History,
University of Virginia.
P.O. Box 316 Charlottesville, VA 22904 (434) 984-7501 aoshaughnessy@monticello.org

David L. Preston, General Mark W. Clark Distinguished Chair of History, The Citadel
308 Mims Ave. Charleston, SC 29409, SC 29409 (843) 953-5051 david.preston@citadel.edu

Jason Opal, Associate Professor of History, McGill University

855 Sherbrooke West, Leacock, Room 821 Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7 (514) 398-4400 ext.
094075 jason.opal@mcgill.ca

Pauline M. Shanks Kaurin, Admiral James B. Stockdale Chair in Professional Military Ethics,
US Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road Newport, Rhode Island 02841 (401) 841-2508
Pauline.Shankskaurin@usnwc.edu

Ricardo A. Herrera, Visiting Professor of Military History, US Army War College, 122 Forbes
Avenue Carlisle, PA 17013 (717) 245-3455 ricardo.herrera.civ@armywarcollege.edu

Lucas Morel, Lewis G. John Term Professor of Politics, Washington and Lee University.
Huntley Hall Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8161 morell@wlu.edu

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