Kirsten Ziomek
Kirsten Ziomek is an associate professor of history and director of Asian Studies at Adelphi University in New York. Her research focuses on the Japanese empire, World War II, and visual culture.
Her first book is Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan’s Colonial Peoples (Harvard University Asia Center, 2019). She is currently writing a book tentatively titled The Untold History of the Japanese Empire at War which focuses on the experiences of colonial and Indigenous people throughout the Asia-Pacific region during WWII– some who fought for the Japanese military–others who were coerced into providing labor, resources or sex.

Christian Singletary
Christian Singletary is a Masters student studying History at the University of Southern Mississippi, and will be starting his PhD there in the Fall. Currently, Christian is doing further research to expand his Masters Thesis, titled "Riders on the Storm: American Exceptionalism, Masculinity, and Frontierism in the 28th Division ‘Over There’,"" into a dissertation. His research analyzes the 28th Division as a case study to highlight older aspects of American culture, like American exceptionalism and frontier ideologies, still inherent in the way the American Expeditionary Forces thought, trained, and fought in World War I.

Kim Clarke
Kim Clarke specializes in longform historical narratives. She is working on a book about those who gave their lives during World War II, including her grandfather, and the unacknowledged heroes who brought them home. Her USAHEC research draws upon the American Graves Registration Service Papers, the Robert M. Littlejohn Papers, and Quartermaster Unit History Files. Her book will be published mid-2026 by Stackpole Books, an imprint of Globe Pequot. The Washington Post, American Historical Association, University of Michigan Press, Consequence, and other publications have published her writing. She lives in Ypsilanti, Mich. Her work is highlighted at kim-clarke.com.

Geoffrey Jensen
As an Americanist, my research investigates the confluence of several historical forces in American history; as of late, I have focused on the rise of conspiracy, conspiratorial rhetoric, and the power it wielded in American society and its military. My current project is an examination of the life and times of a Cold War conspiracy theorist, Major General Edwin Walker. The manuscript is tentatively titled, The Superpatriot: Major General Edwin Walker and the Modern Conservative Movement at the Dawn of the Culture Wars. It is under contract with the University Press of Kansas.

Matthew Hough
Matthew Hough is a second year PhD Candidate in the School of History at the University of Leeds, supervised by Professors Simon Ball and Holger Afflerbach. His dissertation is provisionally titled ‘Field Marshal Harold Alexander and the Supreme Allied Command in the Mediterranean, 1944-1945’. His research examines how tensions arising from politico-military disagreements between London and Washington affected Alexander’s ability to effectively exercise supreme command in the Mediterranean during the Second World War’s final months and immediate aftermath, and how personalities, coalition politics and strategic circumstances interacted to shape the development of this new form of coalition theatre command.

Maj. Michael P. Ferguson
Maj. Michael P. Ferguson is an active-duty U.S. Army officer and Ph.D. student in the Department of History at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation focuses on President Eisenhower’s joint chiefs of staff, their struggle to nest military strategy within the president’s grand strategy, and the civil-military friction this misalignment produced. The project is tentatively entitled, “Atomic Apostates: Eisenhower’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Strategic Dilemma of Massive Retaliation, 1953–1961.” Ferguson will continue his research while teaching history at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

David Bath
Dr. David Bath, an associate professor of history at Rogers State University, is researching the establishment of the National Security Agency and its predecessor organizations to include in a book on the creation of the U.S. intelligence community. Dr. Bath served as a missile launch officer and intelligence officer in the USAF before earning his PhD from Texas A&M. He then taught intelligence analysis as a visiting professor at the University of Mississippi. Before this project, he authored Assured Destruction and edited Air Force Missileers and the Cuban Missile Crisis.