Faculty

John Lavalle

Assistant Professor of History
Office: Phelps Dodge 225
Campus Phone: 538-6256
E-mail: lavallej@wnmu.edu

Degrees:
Ph.D. in modern European History, 1997
University of Georgia

M.A. in modern European History,1991
University of Houston

B.A. in History, 1988, University of Houston

Began At WNMU: 2001

Research and Academic Interests: Modern German History, Military History, Modern European History

Professional Memberships: American Historical Association, Society for Military History

Recent Professional Presentations and Publications:
"'Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Bombing:' Protest Music and the War in Vietnam" at Newman University, Wichita KS, 22 March 2005.

Commentary on a panel entitled “Professionalism between the World Wars in the West” at the Society for Military History conference, 25 February 2005 in Charleston SC.

Review of Mark D. Karau’s “Wielding the Dagger:” The MarineKorps Flandern and the German War Effort, 1914-1918, H-German (Dec. 2004)

Wrote the following entries: “Arras, 1917,” “Liebknecht, Karl,” Mesopotamia Campaign,” “Namur,” “Pals’ Battalions,” and “Verdun,” and co-wrote “Historical Controversies: Premature Employment of Tanks at the Somme” with Spencer C. Tucker, for Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History, ABC-CLIO (forthcoming).

Wrote the following entries: “Agincourt, 1415,” “Aisne, 1914, 1917, 1918,” “Blenheim, 1704,” “Kitchener, Field Marshal Horatio,” “Mackensen, General Eberhard von,” “Manstein, Erich von Lewinski,” “Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of,” “Mesopotamian Campaign, 1914-1917,” and “Mons, 1914,” for International Encyclopedia of Military History, Routledge (forthcoming).

Review of Annika Mombauer’s Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War, H-German (June 2003).

Served on editorial board of Focus on German Studies, 2003-2004.

“From Flexible Defense to the Peace Offensives: The German Search for Tactical Mobility on the Western Front, 1915-1918” presented at the Missouri Valley History Conference, 9 March 2001.

"'Bourgeois References are in Order:' Class and Officer Selection in the German Army in the First World War" presented at the Missouri Valley History Conference, 10 March 2000.

Hobbies, personal interests, and community involvement: Homebrewing, Hiking, Travel

Hobbies, Personal Interests: home brewing