David Silbey

David Silbey is the Director of Teaching and Learning at the Cornell in Washington program and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Cornell History Department. Dr. Silbey specializes in the industrialized total wars of the 20th century and the asymmetric responses (guerrilla warfare, insurgency, and terrorism) to those wars. He has written books on the British Army in World War I, the Philippine-American War, the Boxer Rebellion in China, and US military encounters with non-western nations. He is the series editor for Cornell University Press’ military history series “Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History.” Dr. Silbey got his Ph.D at Duke University and his BA at Cornell University.