Curriculum Vitae

The Ohio State University (2024), Ph.D., Department of History, Military History (Major Field), Diplomatic/20th Century U.S. (Minors); Committee: Dr. Peter Mansoor, Dr. Geoffrey Parker, Dr. Bruno Cabanes, Dr. David Steigerwald; Dissertation: “Allied Force: Coalition Warfare in the Mediterranean and the Allied Template for Victory, 1942–1943”

The University of Oxford (2017), MSt, U.S. History, St. Hugh’s College; Advisor: Dr. Stephen Tuffnell

Brigham Young University (2016), BA History (Hons.), Magna Cum Laude

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2026

“Multinational Coalition Warfare and the Anglo-American Experiment in the Mediterranean, 1942–1943.” Chapter in William D. James and Greg Kennedy (eds.), Transatlantic Storms and Anglo-American Relations: How the UK-US Alliance Weathers Crisis (Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, Forthcoming, 2026).

2025

Review of Stephen A. Bourque, Tubby: Raymond O. Barton and the U.S. Army, 1889-1963. H-War, H-Net Reviews, forthcoming.

2024

Review of Heinz Greiner and Linden Lyons (trans.), Rome to the Po River: The 362nd Infantry Division, 1944–45. H-War, H-Net Reviews, October 29, 2024.

“Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership.” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective (January 2024).

2023

“Coalition in Miniature: The Peculiar Case of Task Force 45 during the Italian Campaign of World War II.” On Point: The Journal of Army History (Spring 2023).

“From the Archives, 1967: Key Players in Top-Secret WWII Operation Gather on 25th Anniversary.” History Uncovered (November 2022).

With Robert F. Williams. “Torch: The Allied Invasion of French North Africa, 1942.” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective (September 29, 2022).

“If This Folder Could Talk: The Story of Italy’s Secret Surrender during World War II.” Marshall: The Magazine of the George C. Marshall Foundation (Summer 2022)..

“Behind Enemy Lines: Task Force Raff and Early Allied Cooperation in North Africa, 1942–43.” Military History Online (July 2022).

“History While It’s Hot: How a Group of US Army Combat Historians Helped Preserve the GI’s Perspective in Europe During World War II.” Military Review 102, no. 3 (May/June 2022): 114–125.

2021

“The Cold, Cold War: Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Antarctic Expeditions, and America’s Evolving Strategic Interest in the Polar Regions, 1945-1960.” The Arctic Institute (November 2021).

“Lighting the Cobra’s Pipe: The Forgotten Team at the Heart of the Wartime Brazilian–American Alliance, 1942–45” Occupied Italy 1, no. 1 (September 2021).

Review of Mumford, Andrew. Counterinsurgency Wars and the Anglo–American Alliance: The Special Relationship on the Rocks. H-War, H-Net Reviews. August 2021.

2020

Pacific Apostle: The 1920–1921 Travel Diary of David O. McKay in the Latter-day Saint Island Missions. With Reid L. Neilson (eds.) and David O. McKay. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020.

2016

“Friction and Fog: The Chaotic Nature of Defeat for the British Expeditionary Force in the Fall of France.” Thetean 45 (2016): 79–98.

External

Society for Military History Summer Seminar Fellow, Virginia Military Institute (July 2024)
LTC John William Whitman Research Grant, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania (2023–24)
Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship (2022–24)
Research Grant, Jeannie Churchill Fund, Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, UK (2020)
General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway Research Grant, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania (2020)
Hans J. Morgenthau Grand Strategy Fellowship, Notre Dame International Security Center (2020–21)
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year Fellowship, Advanced-level Portuguese, US Department of Education and OSU Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) (2020–21)
Charles A. and Loyola M. Murphy Endowment Military History Scholarship, Tenth Mountain Division Foundation (2019–20)
Andrew Jenson Graduate Fellowship in American Religious History (2017–18)

Internal (Ohio State University)

“Multinational Coalition Warfare and the Allied Experiment in the Mediterranean, 1942–43,” Changing Character of War Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford (June 7, 2023)

“It’s a Hyperthyroid War Department!”: Allied Force Headquarters, Multinational Integration, and Anglo-American Coalition Management in the Mediterranean, 1942–1943,” Alliances in the History of Armed Conflict, 1642–present conference at the British National Army Museum in Chelsea, London (March 24-25 2023)

“Reappraising 10th Mountain Division Patrol Actions in the Northern Italian Apennines, January–February 1945,” Missouri Valley History Conference (March 2022)

“Allies, Adversaries, and Everything In-Between: Military Cooperation and Multilateralism in the Historical Practice of Grand Strategy,” 2021 Hans J. Morgenthau Grand Strategy Seminar hosted by the John Quincy Adams Society and the Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC) (July 2021)

“Life on the Line: Reassessing 10th Mountain Division Patrol Actions in the Northern Italian Apennines, January–February 1945,” 88th Annual Conference for the Society of Military Historians held in Norfolk, Virginia (Remote, May 2021)

“Lighting the Cobra’s Pipe: The Forgotten Team at the Heart of the Brazilian–American Wartime Alliance, 1942–1945,” Presented variations of this paper at the 2021 Military Frontiers Graduate Student Symposium at The Ohio State University; University of Maryland’s HGSA Annual Conference; and the James A. Barnes Graduate Conference, Temple University (March and April 2021)

“Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: Moving Toward an Entangled History of Brazilian–American Coalition Warfare in Northern Italy, 1944–45,” 86th Annual Conference for the Society of Military Historians in Columbus Ohio (May 2019)

“Aage Juul and the World’s War: Resistance, Race, and Internationalism in the Allied Fight through Italy, 1943–45,” Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio (April 2018)

“Forgotten Fronts: The Significance of Scarified Europe in the Aftermath of World War I,” 85th Annual Conference for the Society for Military Historians in Louisville, Kentucky (April 2018).

“A Dane Abroad: Reexamining Resistance in Italy, 1943–1945,” 61st Annual Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska (March 2018)

Seminars and Workshops

• Society for Military History Summer Seminar Fellow (July 2024)
• Hans J. Morgenthau Fellowship Teaching Practicum, John Quincy Adams Society Summer Seminar (July 2021)
• Military History Writing Seminar, Dr. Geoffrey Parker (Fall 2020, 2021, 2023)
• Weeklong Grand Strategy Seminar, Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC) (Summer 2020)

Staff Rides

• New Market and Cedar Creek Battlefields, New Market and Middletown, Virginia, SMH Summer Seminar (July 2024)
• “Thucydides, The Sicilian Expedition, and the Peloponnesian Wars,” Weeklong Seminar and Staff Ride, Syracuse, Sicily, Notre Dame Morgenthau Fellowship in Grand Strategy (June 2022) Staff Ride, Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD (Spring 2019)

Service

• Graduate Student Representative, 2022 Annual Society for Military History Conference Program Committee (2021–22)
• Co-Organizer, Ohio State University Military Frontiers Graduate Symposium (2020–21)
• IT Volunteer Organizer, 2019 Society for Military History Conference (Spring 2019)
• Editor, Thetean Undergraduate History Journal, Brigham Young University (Spring 2016)

Invited Lectures

• “Allies, Adversaries, and Everything In-Between: Military Cooperation and Multilateralism in the History of Grand Strategy.” John Quincy Adams Society Summer Seminar on Grand Strategy, part of the NDISC Hans J. Morgenthau Fellowship Teaching Practicum (July 2021)

Discussion Section Leader (Ohio State University)

• History 1211: Western Society to 1600: Rise, Collapse, and Recovery, Dr. Geoffrey Parker (Spring, Autumn 2022, Spring, Autumn 2023)

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Ohio State University)

• “The History of World War II,” Dr. Peter R. Mansoor (Spring 2020)
• “The History of War,” Dr. Mark Grimsley (Autumn 2019)
• “The History of Ancient Greece and Rome,” Dr. Peter Vanderpuy. Online, asynchronous. (Autumn 2019)

Teaching Assistant (Brigham Young University)

• “World Civilization Before 1500,” Dr. Kendall Brown (Autumn 2016)
• “World Civilization after 1500,” Dr. Jeffrey Hardy (Spring 2015)
• “World Civilization before 1500,” Dr. Paul Pixton (Autumn 2015)

Independent Contractor, The George C. Marshall Foundation (2024–Present)

Assist in the digitization and metadata cataloging of the papers of U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, ensuring accurate archival organization, historical analysis, and accessibility for researchers.

Project Manager and National Sales Executive, Ballyhoo (2018–Present)

Lead and manage national sales operations and project execution for a regional large-format printing company, overseeing client relationships, business development, and end-to-end production of custom signage, vehicle graphics, and trade show displays.

Script Writer, The Military Show/The Infographics Show (2022–Present)

Create compelling video scripts and historical content for popular video channels with an online audience of more than 12 million subscribers.

RoundGlass Foundation, Research Assistant, Dr. Fernande Raine (2021)

Researched, curated, and assembled materials for innovative, globally oriented K-12 digital curricula aimed at empowering young people, promoting wellbeing, and enacting holistic systems change across the globe.

Pacific Apostle Co-Editor, Publication Apprenticeship (2017–18)

Co-edited a documentary history published by University of Illinois Press and co-authored peer-reviewed history article with Dr. Reid L. Neilson.

Ancestry.com, Content Writer and Researcher (2016–17)

Conducted research summaries on diasporas and historical migrations for early iterations of the AncestryDNA project; produced weekly summaries written for a general audience.

William “Buffalo Bill” Cody Papers Project, Research Assistant (2015)

Conducted research for Dr. Frank Christianson, senior editor on the NEH-funded Papers of William F. Cody project.

Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Research Assistant (2015–16)

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• French - Research Proficient
• Italian - Research Proficient
• German - Elementary Proficiency

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• Society for Historians on American Foreign Relations
• U.S. Army Historical Foundation
• Organization for American Historians