Education
MA Teachers College of Columbia University
MPhil Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Bio
Scholarly Work
Publications:
Book:
Belgium's Dilemma: The Formation of Belgian Defense Policy, 1932-1940 (Leiden: Brill, 2014)
Book Reviews:
October 2014: Henri Pirenne, Belgium and the First World War. new English edition, in the Journal of Military History
January 2010: Geir H. Harr, The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940 in the Journal of Military History
September 2006: Larry Zuckerman, The Rape of Belgium: The Untold Story of World War I in H-Net Reviews
Papers Presented:
September 2016: " The 1928 Mixed Commission and the Beginning of Belgian Rearmament" to the Northern Great Plains History Conference
March 2013: "Poilu and Jew: Jewish Soldiers in the French Army from Dreyfus to Versailles" to the Missouri Valley History Conference
November 2008: "Belgian Defense Policy, 1920-1940" to "Small Powers in the Age of Total War 1900-1940" at the Netherlands Defense Academy
April 2008: "'They Keep a Good Watch':Couverture, Defense a la Frontiere, and Plans for Defense against Germany" to the Society for Military History
March 2008: "May 1940: A Belgian Perspective" to the Missouri Valley History Conference
January 2008: "Rarely Told Tales of May-June 1940" to the New York Military Affairs Symposium
May 2006: “1936: Belgium and the Increasing German Threat” to the Society for Military History Annual Conference
March 2005: “’Better than that, Madame, we have been motorized!’: The Motorization
of the Belgian Corps de Cavalerie 1934-1940” to the Missouri Valley History Conference
April 2004: “’. . . . And that goes for all you damned Flemings, too!’: The Language
Issue in the Belgian Army, 1914-1940” to the New York Military Affairs Symposium
March 2004: “’Equality of Rights’ or ‘Linguistic Revenge’: The Flemish Question, the
1938 Belgian Army Language Law, and 1940” to the Missouri Valley History Conference
May 2003: “Between France and Germany: The Formation of Belgian Defense Policy,
1932-1940” to the New York Military Affairs Symposium
March 6, 2003: “Covering all the Bases: Belgian Defenses against France, 1936-1940” to the
Missouri Valley History Conference
December 2001: “British and German Propaganda aimed at Americans during World War I” to the New York Military Affairs Symposium
November 1999: “Massacre at Fort Pillow, Tennessee” to History, the Military and Society VI, The Annual Graduate Student Conference on Military History, The Ohio State University
Research Summary
1928 Belgian Mixed Commission
