Please note: John has left the "History" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.
I am a modern military historian, focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Research and Teaching Interests
Office Location: | 301 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708 |
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Ph.D. | Duke University | 2012 |
A.M., History | Duke University | 2008 |
M.A., National Security Studies | Georgetown University | 1997 |
B.A., History and Political Science | Virginia Tech | 1994 |
Current projects: He is currently preparing his dissertation for publication, as well as additional scholarship on conceptions of masculinity in the workplace; the roles of reputation, honor, scandal, and masculinity in the early twentieth-century U.S. Army officer corps; and Progressive Era moral reform of leisure.
Andrew Byers' research interests include studies of gender, sexuality, race, class, medical discourse, and the military. He is currently examining the early twentieth-century U.S. Army within the context of Progressive Era social and moral reform debates. His dissertation, entitled “The Sexual Economy of War: Regulation of Sexuality and the U.S. Army, 1898-1940,” explores how the U.S. Army of the early twentieth century sought to regulate and shape the sexual cultures, practices, and behaviors of soldiers and the civilians with whom they came into sexual contact around the world.