S2E3 Adam Seipp - Texas A&M University

Today's guest is Adam R. Seipp, a Professor of History and Associate Dean in the Graduate and Professional School at Texas A&M University. Adam received all his degrees at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and before joining the faculty at Texas A&M he did visiting stints at UNC and Duke. He is the author of two monographs, Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-52 (Indiana 2013), and The Ordeal of Peace: Demobilization and the Urban Experience in Britain and Germany,  1917-21 (Routledge, 2009). He has also co-edited two volumes, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective, with Michael Meng, (Berghahn 2017) and The Berlin Airlift and the Making of the Cold War, with John Schuessler and Thomas Sullivan (Texas A&M University Press, forthcoming, Fall 2022). In addition, Adam has presented his work in at least nine countries, published more than a dozen book chapters, and placed articles in some of the leading journals in his fields, including War and Society, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Military History, Central European History, and War in History.

His research has been supported by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., among others. His current book project is Base Politics, Local Politics, and the Cold War Transformation of Germany, 1945-1995, a social history of the American military presence in Germany. Adam is active in the Society for Military History, the German Studies Association, and the American Historical Association. Adam is using his position in the Dean’s Office at A&M to broaden opportunities available to PhDs in the liberal arts, and we are excited to talk to him about his work and views on the future of the discipline.

Join us for a truly engaging chat with Adam Seipp - musicals, Son Volt, and the most eloquent and impassioned BBQ treatise to date!

Rec. 04/15/2022