…or at least I am on the brilliant podcast, “Military Historians Are People, Too,” hosted by Profs. Bill Allison and Brian Feltman of Georgia Southern University; see Season 7, Episode 8, released October 27, 2026, on Spotify and other podcast apps!
Check out the podcast’s new website!
I’m pleased to be a George A. Miller visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Center for Advanced Study this fall. On Thursday, October 1, I’ll be delivering a lecture, “Occupying America: War and the Infrastructure of US Power in a Globalizing World,” exploring some of the questions for my next book project; check it out!
The first podcast on The Work of Empire is up! Jack Werner, Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Maryland interviews me as we go “behind the scene” into the impetus for the book. Hope it’s fun to hear!:
https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/113/1/15/8706876?redirectedFrom=fulltext
…in my article, “The Empire of Military Necessity: General Orders No. 100, Atrocity, and the Law of Occupation between the Civil and Philippine Wars,” in the latest issue of The Journal of American History, vol. 113, no. 1 (June 2026), 15-41.
…there’s a conference report on that. From the Occupation Studies Research Network’s exciting inaugural conference at King’s College London, in July 2025:
https://fasos-research.nl/occupationstudies/conference-report-occupation-and-empire
…see the Pacific Historical Review (Spring 2026), pp. 244-245.
Interested in new interdisciplinary research on military occupation? Check out these reports on thematic panel streams at the Occupation Studies Research Network’s inaugural conference, held July 2025 at King’s College London!:
https://fasos-research.nl/occupationstudies/conference-report-occupation-and-empire/
Watch this YouTube video discussion of the “Up for Debate” feature on “The Wages of War,” in the most recent issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, with authors including myself, John Hall, Reena Goldthree, and Tejasvi Nagaraja, moderated by Rosemary Feurer; courtesy of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and LaborOnline!
My essay, “Class/War: Do Labor and Military History Work Together?,” for the “Up for Debate” feature, “The Wages of War: Debating Labor and Military History,” in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, vol. 22, no. 3 (September 2025), and responses by historians Reena Goldthree, John Hall, and Tejasvi Nagaraja, are freely accessible here until late January 2026!
I blog about the feature and its origins in “The Specter of War in Labor History,” on LaborOnline (LAWCHA’s website).