Dale Center for the Study of War and Society
Dale Center for the Study of War and Society
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Our recent graduates include:
Current Assignment: Director of Instruction of the Joint Warfighting Department and Assistant Professor of National Security Studies at Air University’s Air Command and Staff College
Lt. Colonel Bius completed his dissertation "The Soldier and the Cigarette: 1918–1986" under the direction of Dr. Louis Kyriakoudes. Col. Bius turned the dissertation into a book, Smoke Em If You Got Em: The Rise and Fall of the Military Cigarette Ration, in 2018. At Air University, he teaches joint warfighting core courses, as well as electives on the history of American Military Culture and the history of vice in the military.
Current Assignment: Instructor of History in the Department of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point
Major (then Captain) Lovering completed his thesis "Sir Robert Thompson’s Better War: The British Advisory Mission and the South Vietnamese Strategic Hamlet Program, 1961–1963" under the direction of Dr. Andrew Wiest. At West Point, he teaches the course "History of the Military Art" to cadets.
The Dale Center is proud to have educated several military offices who went on to various assignments after their time in Hattiesburg:
Thesis: "Mr. Jefferson's Army in Mr. Madison's War: Atrophy, Policy, and Legacy in the War of 1812." Committee Chair: Dr. Kyle F. Zelner
Thesis: "Jackson's Flying Dutchmen: The Significance of the Royal Netherlands Military Flying School." Committee Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest
Thesis: "Inconspicuous but Indispensable: Charles Anderson Dana as Assistant Secretary of War." Committee Chair: Dr. Susannah J. Ural
Thesis: "Initiative in Command: The Learning Curve in the British Army during World War I." Committee Chair: Dr. Andrew Wiest