The  Contemporary History Institute  hosts Dr. Seth Givens discussing “The Marine Corps and the Long Shadow of Vietnam, 1965-2020” on Thursday November 7 at 5:00 p.m. in Bentley Hall 124.

Dr. Givens is a historian at the United States Marine Corps History Division in Quantico, Virginia. He received both his Master of Arts in history (2010) and Ph.D. in American military history (2018) from Ohio University. He also earned a Certificate in Contemporary History from the Contemporary History Institute during his time at OU, and in 2014 was awarded CHI’s Baker Peace Fellowship. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Monuments Men and Women Foundation.

His areas of specialty are civil-military relations, alliance politics, and strategy and policy in World War II and the Cold War. He has studied civil-military relations at the end of wars, particularly the contact between troops and civilians and the ways in which militaries attempt to govern that interaction. This research led to Givens publishing on American soldiers looting and souvenir hunting in Germany during World War II, research for which he won several awards. He has received funding support from the U.S. Army, German Academic Exchange Service, Cantigny First Division Museum, and multiple presidential libraries. He has published on U.S. policy, strategy, and military operations in the Cold War.

This event is free and open to the public.