S1E10 Daniel Krebs - US Army War College/University of Louisville

Today we're chatting with the refined and gentlemanly Daniel Krebs. Daniel is the Harold Keith Johnson Visiting Chair in the Department of National Security and Strategy in the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA. At the War College, he offers courses on how prisoners of war impact strategic decision-making. Daniel is on loan to the War College from the University of Louisville, where he is Associate Professor of History specializing in Colonial & Revolutionary America and Military History. He received his undergraduate and M.A. degrees at the University of Augsburg in Germany before crossing the Atlantic to earn his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2007. His dissertation was awarded the 2008 Parker-Schmitt Dissertation Award for the Best Dissertation in European History by the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association. In 2005-2006, he was the Society of the Cincinnati and Friends of the MCEAS Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In Spring 2010, he was Donald L. Saunders Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, R.I. 

Daniel's research focuses on how warfare shaped colonial and revolutionary America and the Atlantic world. His first book, A Generous and Merciful Enemy: Life for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution, was published with Oklahoma University Press in 2013, and he recently put out a nice co-edited volume with "friend of the pod" Lorien Foote titled Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts. In addition, his articles have appeared in the Journal of Military History and Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift, which is the top German-language military history journal. Daniel has published essays in some significant edited volumes. Perhaps most importantly, he contributed an essay titled "Ritual Performance: Surrender during the American War of Independence" in Hew Strahan and Holger Afflerbach's How Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender (Oxford, 2012).

Daniel has been recognized for his work with graduate students at the University of Louisville, where he served as Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of History. He also served in the German Bundeswehr and reached the rank of Lt. Col.! He's also a long-suffering supporter of F.C. Augsburg and a Peleton junkie (but we'll overlook that). Join us for our chat with Daniel Krebs!

Rec. 12/13/2021