Overview
I specialize in the industrialized total wars of the 20th century and the asymmetric responses (guerrilla warfare, insurgency, and terrorism) to those wars that evolved after 1945. I have written books on the British Army in World War I, the Philippine-American War, the Boxer Rebellion in China, and American military encounters with other cultures.
I'm the series editor for Cornell University Press' Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
Research Focus
Military History and Policy
Publications
This year:
From me: David Silbey and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, eds., Wars Civil and Great: The American Experience in the Civil War and the Great War (Lawrence, KS: Kansas University Press, 2023)
From Battlegrounds: Marion Girard Dorsey, Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023).
Battlegrounds, awards: The Yad Vashem Prize for Holocaust History to Edward B. Westermann, Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021).