2023-2024 External Awards and Publications
Kendall Cosley published a chapter titled “Reporting from the Bureaus: The Lesser-known
World War II Correspondents,” in Reporting World War II, eds. Kurt Piehler and Ingo
Trauschweizer, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2023). Kendall graduated in December.
Brian Donlon published an article titled “An Entirely Different Ballgame: The Marine Corps and NATO Exercises in Arctic Norway, 1978-1986” in Marine Corps History.
Brian Donlon won the Marine Corps Essay Contest with his article “Logistics 2030: Foraging is not going to Cut It,” published in Proceedings vol. 149 no. 11/1,449 (November 2023).
Logistics 2030: Foraging Is Not Going to Cut It
Brian Donlon Graduated from the US Army War College in July earning a Masters in Strategic
Studies. His paper titled “A Tide Raising All Boats: Threat-Based Strategies and the Marine Corps” derivative of his dissertation earned him the General Thomas Holcomb Strategic Writing Award.
Brian Donlon co-authored an article with Dr. Brian Linn titled “Learning or Confirming? History and the Military Profession” on the website War Room.
Learning or Confirming? History and the Military Professional
Brian Donlon won Virginia Military Institute’s 2023 John Adams ’71 Center for Military
History and Strategic Analysis Cold War Essay Contest with his essay “Getting on the ‘NATO Map’: Marine Corps Innovation and Late Cold War Exercises, 1975-1978”. The honor comes with a plaque and $2,000 cash award. The essay will be published in the Journal of Military History.
Jillian Glantz presented a paper “Remember My Soul: Exploring the Jewish History of the Texas Borderlands Through Film, at the Current Research in Jewish Studies at Texas A&M University Symposium in November.
Patrick Grigsby published a book review on H-Net Reviews.
Tristan Krause appeared in a televised interview by the local CBS affiliate KBTX about our own Dr. Bravo’s DPAA (POW-MIA) conference “Never Forgotten: Conflict Archaeology and Military History” November 8-9.
Texas A&M hosts conference to educate on missing military personnel
Gabrielle Lyle was awarded a Warburg Research Grant from the New Mexico History Museum. The grant is designed for researchers studying New Mexico Jewish history at the museum.
Gabrielle Lyle Presented a paper “Home front Chayalim: How Jews in the U.S. – Mexico
Borderlands Supported the War Effort,” at the Current Research in Jewish Studies at Texas A&M University Symposium in November.
Raymond Mitchell was awarded the C.K. Chamberlain award by the East Texas Historical Association for the best journal article published for the year 2022-2023. Along with a plaque he was presented with a check for $500. His article is: "Our Weakness to Forgive: War psychosis and the impaired humanity of Colonel Clayton Crawford Gillespie,” East Texas Historical Journal, vol. 60, no. 1/2, (Spring/Fall, 2022), 20-47.
Regan Murr Published a review of Jeremy Black's How the Army Made Britain a Global Power, 1688–1815 in the Journal of Military History
Regan Murr worked as an editorial intern at the Texas A&M University Press this past summer.
Tanner Ogle Presented the paper “The ’45 in 75: Conspiracy, Imperial Policy, and the Rebellious Turn in the American Revolution,” American Philosophical Society and Massachusetts Historical Society, December 2023
Tanner Ogle Presented the paper “Constructing Rebellion: Jacobitism and Imperial Policy in the American Revolution (1774-1776),” North American Conference on British Studies, November 2023
Tanner Ogle Presented the paper “Ruins & Remembrance: Jacobite Impressions on the British Environment,” Jacobite Studies Trust Virtual Workshop, October 2023
Tanner Ogle Presented the paper “Corruptions of Kinship: Jacobite Conspiracy & The
Rebellious Turn in the American Revolution,” Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, July 2023
Tanner Ogle was awarded the Gale-North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) Digital Scholar Lab Fellowship (Summer 2023)
Tanner Ogle was awarded the Katherine Aaslestad / Charles Crouch Prize for best graduate paper at the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 Conference (Summer 2023)
Sophia Rouse published a book review on H-Net Reviews.
Ian Seavey is serving an in residence predoctoral fellowship in International Security Studies at the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs at Yale University for the academic year of 2023-2024.
Brandon Willadsen was awarded a $1,000 research grant by the Eisenhower Foundation to defray travel costs and associated expenses while doing archival research at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas.
2022-2023 External Awards and Publications
Jonathan Carroll co-edited a book, The EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
John Lewis’s research assistantship has been extended for another year at the Center for Military History
Gabrielle Lyle, Laura Oviedo, and Kaitlyn Ross were selected to attend the National World War II Museum Emerging Scholars’ Workshop, February 2023.
Ian Seavey was awarded a coveted and competitive Truman Library Dissertation Fellowship of $16,000.
Ashley Vance has been selected for a year-long Center for Military History research assistantship in Washington, D.C.
Sarah Vegerano created a historical map of San Antonio for a book Preserving Greatness: 100 years of Tillinghast’s Texas Masterpiece (Strawn and Sampson, 2023), on the history of the Oak Hills Golf Course in San Antonio, Tx.
On Monday, April 17th, The Queen Theatre will host Jillian Glantz’s film premiere of Remember My Soul, which she directed. Remember My Soul unearths the history of Sephardic Jews in South Texas and explores how their contributions to regional customs & culture have shaped the identity of people in the borderlands. For this film, Jillian was awarded the Sosin Grant for Academic Research. She will give a presentation about the film at the annual conference for the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies in August.
One of the conference attendees wrote an article about the HGSO conference on a site that caters to Hungarian historians and History majors. Nada Al-Jamal was told (and Google Translate confirmed) that he gave us a great review!
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Spring Conference Presentations
SMH Conference in San Diego
Nada Al-Jamal organized her panel at SMH this year. The other panelists and I are focusing on the impact of the Cold War on various regions throughout the developing world.
Panel: Regional Cold Wars: Superpower Involvement in the Global South
Paper Title: “The Tail that Wags the Dog: How the Arab World's Loss was Egypt's Gain in the Yom Kippur War"
Time and Place: Friday, 24 March 2023, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM, Indigo H
Jonathan Carrol, Panel Military History and the United Nations: Reassessing Peacekeeping Operations. Paper title: “Wait him out, root him out, starve him out, bomb him out or induce a henchmen to sell him out”: Mohamed Farah Aidid’s role in the 5 June 1993 attack on UNOSOM II. Saturday: 10:30-12 (Indigo 204A)
Kendall Cosley Panel Title: Fighting Images: US Media Representations of War and Combatants in the Second World War
Paper Title: “An Enduring Icon: How Popular Culture Solidified the Image of the
American G.I.”
Time and Location: Saturday, 25 March 2023, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM, Indigo H
Noah Crawford, presented the paper "'Undeveloped, Shiftless, Aimless': Union Soldiers, Refugee Encounters, and the Adoption of Hard War Strategy" in Aqua 310A Saturday March 25, from 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Brian Donlon, was a member of a roundtable entitled “A Conversation About Armed Forces in the Aftermath of War.” It is at 8:30 AM on Saturday, 25 March in Indigo 202A.
Casey Ellison, “'Something is Radically Wrong:' Integrating the Eighth Army during the Korean War, 1950-1953" (Casey) Panel: “One Locale at a Time: Exploring Racial Integration of the US Armed Forces, 1940s-1960s." Saturday, 8:30 am, Indigo 206
Tristan Krause, organized his SMH panel, which features experts from the DPAA, Project Recover, the Canadian War Museum, and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
Panel Tite: Untidy Conclusions: Accounting for Missing Military Personnel after War
Paper Title: “The Dramatic Sequel to the War”: The U.S. Army, the International Tracing Service, and the Search for the Missing, 1945-50
Time and Location: Friday, 24 March 2023, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM, Indigo 202B
Shane Makowicki’s panel was titled "The Evolution of Land Warfare from the Civil War to the Cold War." His paper was "Coordinated Signals and Creeping Barrages: Ambrose Burnside and Combined Operations Innovation in the Civil War."
Regan Murr, I will be attending SMH and will be presenting at 3:30 p.m. on Friday March 24th in Indigo 204A. The panel is titled "Occupation at Home and Abroad," and my paper is "Bearing Faith and True Allegiance: Loyalty and Community in Occupied Charleston, 1780-1782."
Ross Phillips, Friday, 24 March, Room: Aqua 303, 3:30-5:00 pm. Panel Title: Contemporary Interpretations of the War in South Vietnam: New Perspectives on the I Corps Tactical Zone. Paper Title: “The Preoccupation of Vietnamization”: The Marine Corps Withdrawal and Vietnamization, 1969-1971
Ian Seavey, organized the panel titled Military Humanitarianism and Empire in the Era of the First World War. The paper he presented is titled "Disastrous Dependence: The 1928 Caribbean Hurricane and the Motivations of U.S. Disaster Policy." Sunday March 26th from 10:30am to noon. Room Indigo D.
Ashley Vance, “'In the Name of Efficiency:' Integrating Seventh Army in Occupied Germany, 1950-1953" (Ashley) Panel: “One Locale at a Time: Exploring Racial Integration of the US Armed Forces, 1940s-1960s." Saturday, 8:30 am, Indigo 206
John Wendt, presenting at 8:30 am on Friday at SMH in room: Indigo 204B. I don't know if it matters, but I co-organized the panel Title: War and "Peace" on the Water: Maritime Interactions in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands
Presentation Title: "Buying the Army’s Mud Navy: U.S. Army Quartermasters and the Occupation of Corpus Christi, Texas, 1845"
Other conference presentations
Margaret Gregory, will present this June at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting (SHAFR) at which she will also work as the Program Committee Graduate Assistant for the SHAFR Conference. Panel title: Hands Across the “Black Atlantic”? Studies in U.S.-Africa Relations. Her paper is titled, “Dixieland and Decolonization: South Africa, The American South, and the Global Civil Rights Movement.”
Shane Makowicki presented to the Houston Civil War Round Table (HCWRT). The organizers flew him down from Washington, D.C. to Texas where he, on 16 February, delivered a lecture on Union military operations in eastern North Carolina during the Civil War to an audience of approximately forty people. His remarks were followed by a Q and A (more of a discussion, really) that lasted nearly an hour.
Regan Murr, Northeast Conference on British Studies (NECBS) with my paper "Promising Abundance, Delivering Scarcity: Commerce During the British Occupation of Charleston, 1780-82."
Regan Murr, "Those Virtuous Citizens: Loyalty, Exile, and Culture in Occupied Charleston" which I presented at the Southern Conference on British Studies (SCBS).
Sophia Rouse, presented at the Louisiana Historical Association this past February. My paper was called “Post-Civil War Politics and the German-Language Press in New Orleans.”
Sophia Rouse, will present at the Society of German American Studies this April. The paper is called “Knowing Me, Knowing You: German-Lutherans and the Choice to Assimilate.” I also received a grant from SGAS that covers all conference expenses.
Ian Seavey, presented at OAH in Los Angeles on the panel Ecological and Environmental Histories of the United States Island Empire. I am presenting the paper "Constructing Catastrophe: The 1928 Caribbean Hurricane and the Motivations of American Disaster Policy."
Leslie Torres will be presenting at a conference on April 21st at UT-Austin at the symposium
for the national Voces of a Pandemic Oral History project. She will present on oral histories she conducted as an undergraduate intern for the project. My presentation will be titled "The Endurance of Rio Grande Valley Mutual Aid Collectives during the COVID-19 Pandemic."
Leslie Torres, Valeria Torres, Jillian Glantz. presented on a panel titled “Reclaiming Legacies of Tejano Subjugation and Resistance,” at the National Association of Chicana / Chicano Studies - Tejas Focos conference in Brownsville, TX Saturday 25 March. Dr. Hernandez will be chairing our panel as well. Our presentation titles are as follows:
- Valeria Torres - "Settler Colonialism as Defined by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in Texas."
- Jillian Glantz - "Engleman Gardens: Land Investment, Agriculture, and Labor Exploitation in the Magic Valley of South Texas."
- Leslie Torres - "The Tejano Response to the White Ethnostate of Early Twentieth Century America."