Lisa L. Beckenbaugh - Treaty of Versailles: A Primary Document Analysis

About the Author and Contributors

AUTHOR

Dr. Lisa L. Beckenbaugh is an assistant professor of military and security studies at Air Universitys Air Command and Staff College. She received her masters degree from St. Cloud State University and her PhD from the University of Arkansas. Dr. Beckenbaugh has taught at a variety of undergraduate and graduate civilian institutions. She also served as the interim project lead and military analyst II for the Operational Leadership Experiences Project under the aegis of the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth and held a postgraduate historical research fellowship at the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office. Dr. Beckenbaughs current research is on the 1st MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital), later redesignated 8209th MASH, during the Korean War.

CONTRIBUTORS

Richard C. Hall, PhD, is professor of history in the Department of History and Political Science at Georgia Southwestern State University. His research focuses primarily on early 20th-century military conflicts in the Balkans. Hall is the author of Consumed by War: European Conflict in the 20th Century (2009), Balkan Breakthrough: The Battle of Dobro Pole 1918 (2010), and Bulgarias Road to the First World War (1996). In addition, he served as editor of War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia (ABC-CLIO, 2014). Hall earned his bachelors degree at Vanderbilt University and his masters degree and doctorate at the Ohio State University.

Michael S. Neiberg, PhD, is a professor of history in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. From 2005 to 2010, he was professor of history and codirector of the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of several books, including Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe (2015), Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (2011), and The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 (2012). He received his PhD in history from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996.

Dr. Spencer C. Tucker graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and was a Fulbright scholar in France. He was a U.S. army captain and intelligence analyst in the Pentagon during the Vietnam War and then taught for 30 years at Texas Christian University before returning to his alma mater for 6 years as the holder of the John Biggs Chair of Military History. He retired from teaching in 2003. He is now senior fellow of military history at ABC-CLIO. Dr. Tucker has written or edited more than 50 books, including ABC-CLIOs award-winning World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection and Wars That Changed History: 50 of the Worlds Greatest Conflicts. Among honors he has received for his publications are three Society for Military History awards for best reference work in military history (2008, 2010, 2014) and four American Library Association RUSA Outstanding Reference Source awards (2009, 2010, 2014, 2015).

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