2008 Seminar
Featured Speaker

Dr. G. Kurt Piehler

G. Kurt Piehler is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received his bachelor’s degree from Drew University (1982) and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University (1990). Piehler is author of Remembering War the American Way (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, reprint ed., 2004) and co-editor of Major Problems in American Military History (Houghton Mifflin, 1999). He is consulting editor for the Oxford Companion to American Military History (1999) and associate editor of Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront (Macmillan Reference/Gale, 2005). His articles have appeared in the History of Education Quarterly, Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, and the anthology, Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity (Princeton,1994). Piehler is book series editor for World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension published by Fordham University Press. As director (1994-1998) of the Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II and the Center for the Study of War and Society (1999-present) he conducted over 250 interviews with veterans of the Second World War, Korea, and Vietnam. Many of the interviews conducted by Piehler for these two projects can be found on the Internet at: http://web.utk.edu~csws and http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu. His televised lecture, "The War That Transformed a Generation," which drew on the Rutgers Oral History Archives, appeared on the History Channel in 1997. Piehler has also held academic positions at Baruch College of the City University of New York, Drew University, and Rutgers University. He held the National Historical Publications and Records Commission Fellowship at the Peale Family Papers, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (1988-1989). He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.