Brian McAllister Linn

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Brian McAllister Linn (born September 14, 1953 in Honolulu , Hawaii ) is an American military historian .

Life

Linn studied at the University of Hawaii (BA 1978) and Ohio State University (MA 1981 and Ph.D. 1985).

In 1986/87 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of History at the University of Nebraska and from 1987 to 1989 at Old Dominion University . From 1989 to 1995 he was Assistant Professor and from 1995 to 1998 Associate Professor in the Department of History at Texas A&M University . Since 1998 he has been Professor of History and Ralph R. Thomas Professor in Liberal Arts. In 1999/2000 he held the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History at the US Army Military History Institute . In 2008 he gave the Perspectives in Military History Lecture Series at the United States Army War College .

He has received numerous scholarships (Guggenheim, Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and others), including the 2014 Robert Bosch Foundation scholarship at the American Academy in Berlin . He has been repeatedly awarded book prizes such as the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Prize ; also is The Philippine War, 1899-1902 on the US Army and US Air Force Chief of Staff's Reading List. In 2012 he received the Edwin H. Simmons Award from the Society for Military History.

From 2009 to 2011 he was President of the Society for Military History.

Fonts (selection)

  • The US Army and Counterinsurgency in the Philippine War, 1899-1902 (1989)
  • Guardians of Empire (1997)
  • The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (2000)
  • The Echo of Battle (2007)

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personal data
SURNAME Linn, Brian McAllister
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American military historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Honolulu , Hawaii