Curriculum Vitae

Robert B. Bruce, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Department of History
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX  77341-2239

EDUCATION

Ph.D., History, Kansas State University, 1999

M.A., History, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1994

B.G.S., History, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1992

ACADEMIC POSITIONS & TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2006 - Present:
Associate Professor of History, Department of History, Sam Houston State University

2000 – 2006:
Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Sam Houston State University

Fields of Expertise: Military History, Modern European History, French History, U.S. History

Graduate Courses Taught at SHSU
Seminar in Military History: The Napoleonic Wars
Seminar in Military History: The First World War
Seminar in Military History: World War II
Studies in Recent America: The Rise of America to World Power, 1890 – 1918
Studies in Contemporary America: The Korean War & the Cold War in Asia, 1946 - 1954

Undergraduate Courses Taught at SHSU
Modern France: From the Revolution to the Present
World War II
The Military and War in America
The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1945
The World in the Twentieth Century
European History, 1815 - 1914
Europe in the Age of Absolutism & Revolution, 1648 – 1815
French Revolution & Napoleonic Era, 1789 - 1815
World History: Renaissance to the Age of Imperialism
World History: Dawn of Civilization through the Middle Ages
United States History since 1876
United States History to 1876

1995 – 2000:
Adjunct Faculty, Department of History, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

Courses Taught at KSU
The Napoleonic Wars
World War I
Warfare in the Nineteenth Century
The Korean War
Modern China
Western Civilization: The Modern Era, 1715 – Present
United States History to 1877
United States History since 1877

PUBLICATIONS

Books

(co-author) Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age, 1792 - 1815 (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008).
*Military Book Club, Editor's Pick; *History Book Club, Alternate Selection

Pétain: Verdun to Vichy (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2008).

A Fraternity of Arms: America & France in the Great War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003).
*Awarded the 2004 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize by the Western Front Association for the best work of history on the World War I era.

(editor) Abraham Lincoln's Changing Views on Slavery.  (St. James, NY: Brandywine Press, 2001). 

Forthcoming Books

Verdun: The Battle for France, 1916.  Under contract for publication with Harvard University Press.

A Military History of France: From the Napoleonic Wars to the 21st Century.  Under contract for publication with Praeger Security International.

Death Ride: The German Army in the Battle of the Bulge. Under contract for publication with Stackpole Books.

Articles 

“Victor of Verdun,” Military History, 25 (July-August 2008): 52 - 61.

“America Embraces France: Marshal Joseph Joffre and the French Mission to the United States, April - May 1917,” The Journal of Military History, 66 (April 2002): 407-441.

“To the Last Limits of Their Strength: The French Army and the Logistics of Attrition at the Battle of Verdun, 21 February
- 18 December 1916,” Army History, 45 (Summer 1998): 9-21.

Contributed Essays, Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries

“Foreign Legion,” “Babi Yar,” “Bessarabia,” “Oskar Schindler,” “Simon Wiesenthal,” in The World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago: World Book Inc., 2008).

“Battles of Ligny & Quatre Bras,” in James C. Bradford (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Military History (New York: Routledge, 2006).

“To the Last Limits of Their Strength: The French Army and the Logistics of Attrition at the Battle of Verdun, 21 February
- 18 December 1916,” in Michael Neiberg (ed.) World War I (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005), Ch. 13,  pp. 287 - 300.

“World War I,” in Bill Marshall (ed.), France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, History (Santa-Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005).

“French,” in Paul Finkelman, et al (eds.) Encyclopedia of the New American Nation (New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 2005).

“Saratoga,” in Keith Krawczynski (ed.) History in Dispute: The American Revolution (Detroit: St James Press, 2003).

“Vivandières,” in Reina Pennington (ed.) Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003).

“Plan XVII,” “French African Troops,” “Marshal Foch,” in Dennis Showalter (ed.) History in Dispute: World War I,
2 vols. (Detroit: St. James Press, 2002).

Peer Review

Read and critique manuscripts for the following presses and refereed journals:

Texas A&M University Press
University of Oklahoma Press
European History Quarterly
The Journal of Military History
American Historical Review
Journal of American History

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Named Outstanding Educator for 2007-2008 by Sam Houston State University, Future Farmers of America, 2008.

Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize from the Western Front Association awarded to my book A Fraternity of Arms: America & France in the Great War for the best work of history on the World War I era,  2004.

C. Ballard Breaux Visiting Fellowship, Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY, 2003.

Sageser Memorial Award for excellence in teaching performance, Department of History, Kansas State University, 1998.

Higham Award for best graduate student in Military History, Department of History, Kansas State University, 1998.

Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence, Office of the President, Kansas State University, 1997.

Rhoden Graduate Thesis Scholarship, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1993.

ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP

Society for Military History
Western Front Association
The Great War Society
Crimean War Research Society
United States Naval Institute

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