The Modern Scholar Podcast Ideology, Motivation, and Romania in World War II
Dr. Grant T. Harward is a native of southern California. He completed his BA in history at Brigham Young University in 2009, his MSc in the Second World War in Europe at the University of Edinburgh in 2010, and his PhD in history at Texas A&M University in 2018. He is a former Auschwitz Jewish Center fellow, a former Fulbright scholar to Romania, and a former Mandel Center fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He was a historian for the U.S. Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage at Fort Sam Houston (“Home of the Combat Medic”) in San Antonio from 2018 to 2021. He now works as a historian for the U.S. Army Center of Military History. Dr. Harward has written numerous articles about the history of U.S. Army medicine and the Romanian Army during World War II. Cornell University Press recently published his book, Romania’s Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust (2021).
The views and information shared by Dr. Harward are his alone and do not represent the official position of the U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Defense, or U.S. Government.