Michael Doidge
Affiliation:
University of Southern Mississippi
Advisor:
Dr. Michael Neiberg
Academic Interests:
U.S. Military History
U.S. Diplomatic History
The Cold War
Military Theory
20th Century U.S. History
Gender in the Military
U.S. Diplomatic History
The Cold War
Military Theory
20th Century U.S. History
Gender in the Military
Dissertation:
An Army Worth Fighting For: Doctrinal, Strategic, and Bureaucratic Transformation in the U.S. Army from 1946-1964
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Bio Note:
Michael is a PhD candidate currently writing his dissertation, which examines the Army's post-World War II relationship to national security policy during the early Cold War. During his time at Southern Miss, Michael co-edited, with Andrew Wiest, the anthology Triumph Revisited: Historians Battle for the Vietnam War. He now works as an Army historian at the Combat Studies Institute, where he also serves as an academic-editor and project lead to the creation of a multimedia-rich history text designed for tablets. Recently, Michael completed work on the monograph "Band of Sisters," which examines Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan. He has agreed to serve as a historical consultant to two film documentaries on Afghanistan. Michael was a 2008 fellow at the West Point Summer Seminar in Military History; he has also won numerous grants and fellowships to support his research to include travel grants to the Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy Presidential Libraries, a George Marshall/Baruch Fellowship from the George Marshall Foundation, the Harry J. Carman Fellowship, the Matthew B. Ridgway research grant from the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, and the U.S. Army Center of Military History Dissertation Fellowship.
Updated June 2012
