New Interpretations In Naval History: Selected Papers From The Sixteenth Naval History Symposium Held at the United States Naval Academy, 10-11 September 2009

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 The Naval War College Press, at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, publishes the quarterly Naval War College Review, the Newport Papers monograph series, and books of interest of the naval and maritime communities.

 

Dr. Robert G. Angevine is the author of The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in 19th-century America (2004) and articles on military approaches to technology, naval experimentation, and American military and naval intelligence. He received his Ph.D. in military history from Duke University in 1999 and currently works as a defense analyst in the Washington area. He has taught at Duke, American, and George Mason Universities and now serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University.

 

Dr. Michael Barrett is a professor of history at The Citadel, teaching courses on World War I, modern Germany, and geography among others. A graduate of The Citadel, he did his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts where he was a Fulbright Scholar (Germany). He is the author of Operation Albion. The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands (Indiana), and Clausewitz Revisited (Praeger-ABC Clio), co-authored with H.P. Willmott. He is a retired brigadier general in the US Army Reserve.

 

Laurence M. Burke, II, is a PhD candidate in History and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.  His research interests lay in the history of technology and military history.  He was awarded the Ramsey Fellowship in Naval Aviation History (National Air and Space Museum) and the General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr, Memorial Dissertation Fellowship (United States Marine Corps) in 2008, both of which have greatly assisted his research.  This paper is drawn from his dissertation, whose working title is, “What to Do With the Airplane?: Determining the Role of the Airplane in the US Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, 1908-1930.”

Dr. Kenneth P. Hansen, Commander, Canadian Navy (ret.), is the Visiting Defence Fellow in the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, where he is the Director of the Maritime Security in the 21st Century Project and Deputy Director for the centre’s Maritime Studies Programme.  His research interests include concept development, operations planning, and logistical sustainment.   His 32-year naval career included a variety of positions in several ships of the Canadian Atlantic Fleet, a number of senior operations and staff appointments, and the Military Co-Chair of the Maritime Studies Programme at the Canadian Forces College, Toronto.

 

Dr. John T. Kuehn is a former naval aviator (EP-3/ES-3) who has completed cruises aboard four different aircraft carriers.  He flew EP-3 missions during the last decade of the Cold War, the First Gulf War (Desert Storm) and the Balkans (Deliberate Force over Bosnia). CDR Kuehn has served on the faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College since July 2000, retiring from the naval service in 2004.  He earned a Ph.D. in History from Kansas State University in 2007.   He is the author of the Agents of Innovation and Eyewitness Pacific Theater with Dennis Giangreco.

 

Dr. Christopher P. Magra is Assistant Professor of Early American history and Director of the Atlantic History Center at the California State University at Northridge.  He has published articles related to maritime history in the International Journal of Maritime History, the New England Quarterly, and the Northern Mariner.  The Canadian Nautical Research Society honored him with the Keith Matthews Award for his scholarship.  Cambridge University Press published his first book The Fisherman’s Cause: Atlantic Commerce and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution in 2009.  He has already begun research on his second book, a comparative analysis of British naval impressment in the Atlantic World.

 

Dr. Heather Pace Marshall  received Ph.D. from duke University.  The daughter and wife of Marines, she has always been fascinated in understanding the origins of and developments in the Marine Corps’ institutional culture.  Her dissertation explores changes in the Corps’ image and identity from the Civil War to World War I.

 

Dr. John Darrell Sherwood is historian with the Naval History & Command, and the author of five books in military and naval history, including Nixon's Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972 (2009), Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era (2007), and Afterburner: Naval Aviators and the Vietnam War (2004). Sherwood holds a Ph.D. in military history from The George Washington University, and is currently working on a history of U.S. Navy coastal and riverine operations during the Vietnam War.

 

Dr. Andrew Stewart studied for his doctorate in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London and was awarded his PhD in December 2001. The following year he joined the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. His research examines various issues connected to the British Empire and the Second World War. His book Empire Lost: Britain, the Dominions and the Second World War was published in September 2008 by Continuum and his next project is centred on the British Commonwealth military effort in East Africa during the Second World War.

 

Dr. Bruce Taylor was born in Chile in 1967 and educated at the University of Manchester and at Oxford where he received a D.Phil. in Modern History in 1996. He is author of The Battlecruiser HMS Hood: An Illustrated Biography, 1916–1941 (2005) and together with Daniel Morgan is completing Annals of the Wolves: U-Boat Sinkings of Allied Warships as Recorded in German Logs. He lives in Southern California.

 

Dr. Kathleen Broome Williams is the Director of General Education and professor of history at Cogswell Polytechnical College in Sunnyvale, California.  Her published work includes Secret Weapon: U.S. High-frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic (Naval Institute Press, 1996), Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II, (Naval Institute Press, 2001), and Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea (Naval Institute Press, 2004), as well as articles and book chapters on naval science and technology. She serves on the board of trustees of the Society for Military History and the advisory board of H-Maritime.

 

Dr. Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza was born in Spain in 1957. After a career in the building industry he graduated in War Studies from King’s College London. He is presently finishing his PhD and teaching naval history at that institution. His main interests are Spanish naval policy, international naval history and the role of medium/small navies in the nineteenth century. He has published in British, American and Spanish journals, including War in History, Warship International and Revista de Historia Naval.

 

Captain Craig C. Felker graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1981.   A naval aviator and helicopter pilot, he served in a variety of operational and staff assignments, the most notable of which included Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1991, and as the director of the President’s Emergency Operations Center in the White House from 1995 to 1997.  While serving as an instructor in history at the Naval Academy, Commander Felker was selected for the Naval Academy’s Permanent Military Professorship Program.  He received his Ph.D. from Duke in May 2004, and returned to the Academy the following June.  In February 2007 Texas A&M University Press published his book, Testing American Sea Power: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940, which examined the ways in which warfare simulation tested the Navy’s Mahanian vision, and provided a means of adapting the vision to include new technologies.  Captain Felker was the director of the 2009 Naval History Symposium.