Michael S. Neiberg 
Professor
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996
Liberal Arts Building 462
601-266-4081
neiberg102@gmail.com
Dr. Neiberg currently serves as the department’s Director of Graduate Studies and is co-director of the Center for the Study of War and Society. He teaches courses in War and Society and the history of modern France, in addition to modern American and world history. While teaching at the Air Force Academy, he won several teaching and mentoring awards.
Dr. Neiberg specializes in the comparative history of War and Society since 1789, especially the era of the First World War. He is a founding member of the Société Internationale d'Etude de la Grande Guerre, the author of Fighting the Great War: A Global History (Harvard University Press, 2005), and the editor of The Great War Reader (New York University Press, 2006). His most recently published book is The Second Battle of the Marne (Indiana University Press, 2007). His next project is a transnational examination of the outbreak of war in 1914 under contract to Harvard University Press. Dr. Neiberg has recently lectured in France, Australia, Israel, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Italy. He was recently named a "Top Young Historian" by the History News Network and was named to the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee (DAHAC), which advises the Secretary of the Army on all U. S. Army Historical programs.
His earlier published works include Soldiers’ Lives Through History: Volume 4, The Nineteenth Century (Greenwood Press, 2006), Warfare in World History (Routledge, 2005), Foch: Supreme Allied Commander in the Great War (Brassey’s, 2003), Making Citizen-Soldiers: ROTC and the Ideology of the American Military Service (Harvard University Press, 2000), and numerous articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and reviews.
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