S2E23 Hayley Hasik - University of Southern Mississippi
So what does a graduate student think of all this? Let’s find out! Our guest today is Hayley Hasik, a PhD candidate at Southern Mississippi University. Her dissertation is titled “The Helicopter War: Unraveling the Myth and Memory of a Vietnam War Icon,” and she is slated to graduate in May 2023. Her doctoral advisor is friend-of-the-pod and our very first guest on Military Historians are People, Too! Heather Stur! Haley earned her BA in History and English at Texas A&M University-Commerce and her MA in Public History at Stephen F. Austin State University. With Eric Gruver, Haley is coauthor of “Warrior for Freedom and Souls: Navigator, POW, Minister,” which appeared in War, Literature, and the Arts, and “He Missed, I Didn’t: Tears of an American World War II POW,” in Sound Historian.
Haley helped start and served as the Coordinator of the East Texas War and Memory Project at TAMU Commerce from 2012-2015, which conducted and preserved dozens of veteran oral histories from the region. She also has extensive experience with fundraising, public outreach, and media, including her blog “From Combat to Cultural Icon: Unraveling the Legacy of the Helicopter in the Vietnam War.” In the summer of 2022, she was a Seminar in Military History Fellow at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War & Democracy at the National WWII Museum, a joint project with the Society for Military History. Her numerous fellowships include a University of North Texas Special Collections Research Fellowship in 2021.
Haley has delivered more than 20 conference papers and is already active in professional service. In 2022, the Society for Military History appointed Hayley as the SMH’s Mark Grimsley Social Media Fellow. You can follow Hayley on Twitter @HayleyHasik.
Join us, especially you graduate students, for an engaging and fun chat with Hayley Hasik - East Texas, Christmas trees, dog parks, Reba McEntire, the job market, and helicopters, and listen as Brian and Bill reveal way too much!
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Rec.: 11/04/2022
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