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Mary Elizabeth Walters

Affiliation:

University of North Carolina

Advisor:

Dr. Wayne Lee

Academic Interests:

U.S. Military History
European Military History
Peacekeeping
The Balkans
Military Theory
Security Studies
Civil-Military Relations

Thesis:

Unusual Humanitarians: NATO’s Response to the 1999 Kosovo Refugee Crisis

Bio Note:

Mary Elizabeth is an M.A./Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as the current Graduate Student Representative for the Society of Military History. Her thesis and dissertation research examines civil-military relations in the context of peacekeeping missions, specifically looking at changing military roles during the 1990s in the various peacekeeping missions in the Balkans and the gradual trend towards military personnel providing direct humanitarian and development assistance. Mary Elizabeth was awarded a FLAS area studies grant from the Department of Education to participate in an immersion language course in Serbia in 2013.


Added March 2013