Robert M. Citino

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Robert M. Citino (2009)

Robert Michael "Rob" Citino (born June 19, 1958 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American modern historian who deals in particular with the military history of World War II . He has been a professor at the University of North Texas since 2013 .

Life

Robert M. Citino, of Italian American descent, was born in 1958 in the US state of Ohio, the son of a buyer and his wife, a secretary. He attended the private Catholic St. Ignatius High School of the Jesuits in his hometown of Cleveland and then studied history at the state universities of Ohio State (BA 1978) in Columbus, Ohio and Indiana Bloomington (MA 1980 and Ph.D. 1984) in Bloomington, Indiana. His academic teacher was the diplomatic historian Barbara Jelavich (dissertation: Poland attacks: Germany's Defenses in the East, 1918–1933 ).

From 1984 to 1991 he taught as a professor at the Liberal Arts Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio and from 1991 to 2008 at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. During this time he devoted himself to a. Western European history, military history , the history of the Habsburg Monarchy and recent German history .

In 2008/09 he was the Charles Boal Ewing Distinguished Visiting Professor of Military History at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. From 2009 to 2011 he was Associate Professor in the History Department of the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton, Texas. For 2013/14 and 2014/15 he holds the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History Scholar-in-Residence at the Department of National Security and Strategy of the United States Army War College (USAWC) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Since 2013 he has been Professor of History at the History Department of the UNT and a fellow at the Military History Center there. His current research interests are German and US military history as well as recent European history . Since 2009 he has been a member of the Graduate and Tenure and Promotion Committee; he supervised several doctoral candidates.

Citino held the Perspectives in Military History Lecture Series at the USAWC in 2010 (subject: “Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942”) and 2014 (subject: “Fighting a Lost War: The German Army in 1943”). In 2013 he was the Contemporary History Institute Speaker at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio (subject: “Nine Days the Shook the World”).

He is a member of the American Historical Association (since 2007) and the Historical Society (since 2008) and an Awards Committee Member of the Society for Military History (SMH, since 2005), of which he was Vice President until 2014. Citino is co-editor of the War, Weapons, and Technology series (Praeger / ABC-CLIO ). He was also a reviewer for academic publishers, from 2004 to 2006 book review editor for World War II Magazine and since 2009 columnist for the weblog “Front and Center”.

Occasionally he appears as a consultant for The History Channel . He gave interviews to newspapers and magazines such as Variety (for the film Inglourious Basterds ), The Washington Post and The Atlantic Monthly .

Citino is the author of several monographs, some of which have won book prizes. He also wrote articles in anthologies and various journals; Articles have also appeared in journals such as American Historical Review , Journal of Strategic Studies , Historically Speaking , The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin, and Revue d'Allemagne . He is considered to be one of the leading contemporary representatives of the history of operations in World War II. According to its own statements, its audience is on the one hand seriously scientific and on the other hand interested in popular science.

He has been married since 1979 and has three children.

Awards / honors

Fonts (selection)

  • The Evolution of Blitzkrieg Tactics: Germany Defends Itself Against Poland, 1918–1933 ( Greenwood , 1987; translation into Polish)
  • Germany and the Union of South Africa in the Nazi Period (Greenwood, 1991)
  • Armored Forces: History and Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1994)
  • The Path to Blitzkrieg: Doctrine and Training in the German Army, 1920-1939 ( Lynne Rienner , 1999)
  • Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899–1940 ( University Press of Kansas , 2002)
  • Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare (University Press of Kansas, 2004)
  • The German Way of War: Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich (University Press of Kansas, 2005)
  • Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 (University Press of Kansas, 2007; translations into Spanish and Czech)
  • The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Losing War in 1943 (University Press of Kansas, 2012)

interview

literature

  • Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, 2009.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Citino, Robert M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Citino, Bob; Citino, Robert Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio