October 11, 2024

Beth Bailey

Beth Bailey is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of Kansas and director of the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies. Her research has been supported by the Carnegie Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and in 2022 she received the Society for Military History Samuel Eliot Morison Award for lifetime contributions to the field of military history. She is the author of An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era.