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Faculty: M.A. Military History Online

 
Dr. David L. Preston, General Mark W. Clark Distinguished Chair of HIstory and Director of the Master's in Military History degree program, is "one of the most gifted young historians writing today," according to the eminent historian and Pulitzer-Prize winner David Hackett Fischer. Professor Preston is an award-winning historian of early America with a special interest in war and peace among the French, British, and Indian peoples of the eighteenth century. Dr. Preston teaches cadets and officer candidates about U.S. military history and early American history.
 
  
Dr. Preston's book Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution, published by Oxford University Press in 2015, earned several prestigious awards: 
  • Winner, 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Prize in Military History (for Braddock's Defeat)
  • Finalist, 2016 George Washington Book Prize
  • Winner, 2016 Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History
  • Winner, 2016 Distinguished Book Award,  Society of Colonial Wars
  • Winner, 2016 PROSE Award in U.S. History,  Association of American Publishers 

DIRECTOR'S CORNER

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Dr. David Preston
General Mark W. Clark
Distinguished Chair of History
Professor & Director
Master's in Military History
Online Program
 
Contact Dr. Preston
843-953-5051
 

 

Graduate Faculty
M.A. Military History
Education
Graduate History Faculty Teaching Area: Military History
Program Director & Professor
 
Expert U.S. Military History & Early American History
 Ph.D in American History, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Program Asst. Director & Asst. Professor
 

Expert on Modern Europe, War and Society, Russia/Soviet Union

 Ph.D, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A.s  Russian Studies & History at European University in St. Petersburg &  University Mass-Boston.
Assistant Professor

Expert on Asymmetric Warfare and 19th century military history 

 Ph.D, University of Indiana
Professor
sinisik@citadel.edu

Expert in U.S. military history, the history of firearms, and the Civil War

 Ph.D., History, Kansas State University
Associate Professor
wrightc2@citadel.edu
 
Expert on history of the Middle East
 Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
   
Graduate History Faculty Teaching Area: History of War & Society
Assoc. Professor
Nancy A. Aguirre
 
Expert in Latin American History, U.S. - Mexico Borderlands
 Ph.D. in Borderlands History, University of Texas, El Paso, TX
Assoc. Professor
Kurt Boughan
boughank1@citadel.edu
 
Expert Early Mod Europe, Science & Medicine, Medieval Intellectural 
 Ph.D. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Professor
grenierk@citadel.edu
 
Author and expert in modern Britain and British society in World War I
 Ph.D. in History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
 
Author and expert in the history of China and East Asia
 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Asst. Professor
 
Expert in the history of Medieval Europe and Pre-modern Ireland
 Ph.D. in Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Assoc. Professor
 
Expert in the history of U.S. South
 Ph.D. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Assoc. Professor
 
Author and expert in the history of 20th Century U.S., Labor, Civil Rights, Oral History
 Ph.D. in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
 
Graduate Faculty
Citadel Departments
 Teaching Area: Contributing
Dr. Michael Livingston
Department of English
Assoc. Professor
 Ph.D., University of Rochester; M.A., Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University
   
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