Ukraine, Podcasting, and the Profession of History

Welcome to the Modern Scholar podcast! 

I'm glad you're here, and thank you for joining me today! Why was I inspired to create this series? Listen on and find out! 

My guests today are Dr. Bill Allison and Dr. Brian Feltman, both from Georgia Southern University, and co-hosts of the wonderful podcast, Military Historians Are People, Too! 

Dr. Bill Allison is a scholar of American military history, specifically the Vietnam War. He is a Professor of History at Georgia Southern University, joining the faculty there as Chair of the Department of History in 2008. After earning a BA and MA in History at East Texas State University in 1989 and 1991, he completed his Ph.D. in history at Bowling Green State University in 1995. He then taught at the University of Saint Francis (Indiana) before joining the History Department at Weber State University from 1999-2008. During the 2002-2003 academic year, he was Visiting Professor in the Department Strategy and International Security at the USAF Air War College and later served as Distinguished Professor of Military History at the USAF School for Advanced Air and Space Studies from 2010-2011. He also served two years as the General Harold K. Johnson Visiting Chair in Military History at the US Army War College (2012-2014). He is a former Trustee and Vice-President of the Society for Military History and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Military History as well as editor for Routledge’s Critical Moments in American History series. He has also served on the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee and was awarded the Army’s Outstanding Civilian Service Medal in 2014. Since 2019, he is the series editor for the Modern War Studies series at the University Press of Kansas. His numerous books include The Gulf War, 1990-1991 from Palgrave MacMillan, My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War from Johns Hopkins, and Military Justice in Vietnam: The Rule of Law in an American War from Kansas.

Dr. Brian Feltman is an Associate Professor of History and Assistant Chair of the Department of History at Georgia Southern University, where he joined the faculty in 2012. He completed his BA and MA at Clemson University and his PhD at the Ohio State University. As a specialist in Modern Germany, Dr. Feltman completed a post-doctorate fellowship at the University of Cologne in Germany, and has received multiple research grants from German institutions. His first book, The Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War and Beyond from the University of North Carolina Press received the Edward M. Coffman Dissertation Prize from the Society for Military History, which is awarded annually to recognize the best dissertation in military history. Dr. Feltman has since served on the Coffman Prize Committee. Additional works include chapters in edited volumes – most recently a contribution to Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts from Kansas, edited by Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote, as well as Finding Common Ground: New Directions in First World War Studies from Brill in 2010 and edited by Michael Neiberg and Jennifer Keene.