Michael S. Neiberg

Michael S. Neiberg

Michael Scott Neiberg (born August 2, 1969 ) is an American military historian .

Life

Neiberg studied history at the University of Michigan (BA 1991) in Ann Arbor, Michigan and at Carnegie Mellon University (MA 1992 and Ph.D. 1996) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also obtained a diploma (2000) in Spain.

He was Assistant Professor from 1998/99, Associate Professor from 2000 to 2003, and Professor of History from 2003 to 2005 at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 2005 he moved to the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as professor and co-director .

In 2008 and 2010 he held the Perspectives in Military History Lecture Series and in 2010/11 he held the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Since 2011 he has been Professor of History in the Department of National Security and Strategy. In 2013 he took over the Stimson Chair of History and Security Studies there.

Awards

Neiberg has received several scholarships and prizes a. a .:

• 2006: Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award (for Fighting the Great War: A Global History )
• 2008: Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize, Western Front Association (now: World War One Historical Association) (for The Second Battle of the Marne )
• 2012: Madigan Writing Award, United States Army War College (for The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 )

Fonts (selection)

• with Steven Schlossman: The Unwelcome Decline of Molly Marine: Historical Perspectives on Women in the American Military (1994)
• Making Citizen-Soldiers: ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service (2000)
• Warfare in World History (2001)
• Foch: Supreme Allied Commander in the Great War (2003)
• Warfare and Society in Europe, 1898 to the Present (2004)
• Fighting the Great War: A Global History (2005)
• (ed.): International Library of Military History: World War I (2005)
• Soldiers' Lives Through History, Vol. 4: The Nineteenth Century (2006)
• (ed.): International Library of Political History: Fascism (2006)
• (ed.): The Great War Reader (2006)
• The Western Front (2007)
• with David Jordan: The Eastern Front, 1914–1920 (2008)
• The Second Battle of the Marne (2008)
• with Jennifer Keene: Finding Common Ground: New Directions in First World War Studies (2011)
• (ed.): Arms and the Man: A Festschrift in Honor of Dennis Showalter (2011)
• Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of War in 1914 (2011)
• The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 (2012)
• The Military Atlas of World War I (2014)
• Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe (2015)

Web links

• Search for Michael S. Neiberg in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Michael S. Neiberg at the University of Southern Mississippi
• Website by Michael S. Neiberg