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MMH Faculty
Learn from a distinguished faculty
The Master of Arts in Military History faculty are a diverse group of professionals from a myriad of academic backgrounds related to military history. They are passionate about both the subject matter and teaching, and bring the latest developments in their professional activities and research right into the classroom. Each instructor is chosen specifically for his or her unique insight into the curriculum of particular seminars.
All School of Graduate Studies faculty receive comprehensive training in the online learning environment. They recognize their responsibility to bring experience and expertise to bear in the classroom, to facilitate vibrant and engaging discussion of the subject matter, and to support students in all of their learning activities.
The following is a partial faculty list. Please contact an Admissions Advisor for any additional information regarding faculty.
John Votaw, PhD
Dr. John F. Votaw is the Executive Director Emeritus, Cantigny First Division Foundation, in Wheaton, Illinois. Votaw (Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired), a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (1961), commanded U.S. Army cavalry and armored units through the battalion level and served in Vietnam in 1966-67. He completed graduate studies in history at the University of California, Davis (MA, 1969) and Temple University (PhD, 1991).
He is currently Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois and a Trustee of the Society for Military History. Dr. Votaw directed the First Division Museum at Cantigny and the co-located Colonel Robert R. McCormick Research Center from 1986 to 2005. He was the general editor of the Cantigny Military History Series of books dealing with American military history and events related to the history of the 1st Infantry Division of the US Army.
As the Historian for the Society of the 1st Infantry Division, Dr. Votaw supervised the publication of the society newspaper, The Bridgehead Sentinel, and advised the historical activities of the society. Professor Votaw retired at the end of 2005 and currently consults on military museum projects and occasionally writes for publication on military subjects.
Antulio Echevarria, PhD
Dr. Echevarria is the Director of Research at the US Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the US Military Academy in 1981, was commissioned in armor, and held a variety of command and staff assignments in Germany and the United States. He also taught history for four years at West Point, and served in the Pentagon as a speechwriter for the Chief of Staff for the US Army. He is a graduate of the US Army's Command and General Staff College, and the US Army War College, and holds both MA and PhD degrees in history from Princeton University. Dr. Echevarria retired from the Army in May of 2004, and has been working at the War College as Director of Research ever since.
Six years ago, he published After Clausewitz: German Military Thinkers before the Great War with the University Press of Kansas. Recently, he finished a book entitled, Clausewitz and Contemporary War, which is under review at a university press. He is now engaged in writing another book, tentatively entitled, Imagining Wars to Come, which compares how military practitioners and their civilian counterparts envisioned future war before 1914. He intends to finish it this year. He has also written extensively on strategic and military-historical themes, publishing regularly with the Strategic Studies Institute at the Army War College, and in a number of scholarly and professional military journals.
His current job allows him to do quite a bit of international travel. He has been to Berlin, Paris, London, Madrid, Oslo, Stockholm, Warsaw, Singapore, Canberra, and Manila.
David Graff, PhD
Dr. David Graff was born in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and Pleasantville, New York. He has been intensely interested in military history since the age of six, when his grandfather began giving him books about the American Civil War. he became interested in China in 1981, when he was an undergraduate at Haverford College. He took a course on Traditional Government and Politics in East Asia just to fill a requirement and found himself completely captivated by the subject matter. He took more courses on Chinese history, began to learn the language, and went on to do an MA in Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Graff then entered Princeton's PhD program in East Asian Studies in 1989, and ended up specializing in the military history of the Tang dynasty (618-907). After finishing at Princeton he had a series of short term teaching positions, first at Southern Methodist University (1994-5) and then at Bowdoin College (1995-7). Dr. Graff has been at Kansas State University since 1998.
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