Graduate students who choose to pursue an area of strength in War and Society will work with faculty members specializing in a wide range of chronological and geographical contexts, to understand the reciprocal relationships between society and mass violence.
Major themes include cities, economies and everyday life in wartime; identities, ideologies, and memories; representations of conflict in personal writing, art, popular culture, and propaganda; and ruination, mass death, and genocide.
Associated Faculty
Joseph Hodge
Modern Britain, British Imperialism, Comparative Imperial and Postcolonial Societies, Decolonization, Development and the Global Cold War, Western Civilization
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Brian Luskey
Civil War and Reconstruction, Social and Cultural History, Nineteenth-Century America
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Director of Graduate Studies, Eberly Professor of Civil War Studies
317 Chitwood Hall
Civil War and Reconstruction, Southern history, Nineteenth-century America
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Renaissance and early modern European History, Political Culture, Kinship
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