Kyle F. Zelner
Associate Professor
PhD, William and Mary, 2003
Liberal Arts Building 466
601-266-6196
kyle.zelner@usm.edu
Dr. Zelner teaches courses in the history of colonial and Revolutionary America, early American war and society, and history methods and writing. He is the department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies and one of the department’s undergraduate advisors. In addition, Zelner is a Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of War & Society at Southern Miss and the state membership chair for the Organization of American Historians. He also routinely participates as an instructor for Teaching American History grant programs which aim to bring the latest historical scholarship to high school teachers throughout the United States.
Dr. Zelner’s book A Rabble in Arms: Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen during King Philip’s War was published in 2009 as the inaugural volume in a new series Warfare and Culture by New York University Press. The study examines the social background of impressed soldiers during King Philip’s War and the government system which impressed them; he argues that the conventional wisdom about a broadly democratic militia in seventeenth century colonial America is largely false. Zelner has presented his research at number of professional conferences, including meetings of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the Society of Military History, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Watchman Center, the Great Lakes Historical Society, and the American Historical Association. His other publications include an article in the New England Quarterly; contributions to the Encyclopedia of North American Colonial American Warfare to 1775, the Encyclopedia of American War Literature, and the Encyclopedia of U.S. Military History; and book reviews for the New England Quarterly, The Journal of Southern History, and the Journal of Military History. He is currently working on an edited volume which will explore the social history of the American soldier from 1607 to 2007, as well as an article about an little known military officer controversy in seventeenth-century New England.
Department of History
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