S1E19 Kara Dixon Vuic - Texas Christian University
Kara Dixon Vuic is the Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America at Texas Christian University. She received her BA in History and English at Marshall University and her MA and PhD from Indiana University. Before making the move to TCU, she held faculty positions at Bridgewater College in VA and Highpoint University in NC. She is the author most recently of The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines (Harvard University Press, 2019). Her first book Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War (Johns Hopkins, 2010) won the Lavinia L. Dock Book Award, American Association for the History of Nursing (2010), the American Journal of Nursing Books of the Year Award in History and Public Policy (2010), and was a Finalist for the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award. She also edited The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military (2017) and was part of the editorial team for Managing Sex in the U.S. Military Gender, Identity, and Behavior, which is set to appear with the University of Nebraska Press in May 2022.
Kara has also published numerous essays and articles, and she is the co-editor for the University of Nebraska Press’ Studies in War, Society, and the Military series. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Army Heritage and Education Center, the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the American Historical Association, and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Foundation, among many others. Kara has written for the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and the Dallas Morning News, and she has also served as a consultant for television and radio programs. She’s a Trustee of the Society for Military History, and she has a list of invited talks and conference presentations a mile long, so we’re glad she agreed to add this interview to the list of prestigious things she’s done recently.
Join us for a great chat with Kara - Mumford and Sons, financial frugality, and yes, the BBQ question will make an appearance. Follow Kara on Twitter @KaraDixonVuic. Thundering Herd!
Rec. 02/11/2022
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