Andrew Wiest, PhD, is professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and also the founding director of the Center for the Study of War and Society. He was born in Chicago but raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. After attending the University of Southern Mississippi, Dr. Wiest went on to receive his PhD from the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 1990. Specializing in the study of World War I and Vietnam, Dr. Wiest has served as a visiting senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in the United Kingdom and as a visiting professor in the Department of Warfighting Strategy in the United States Air Force Air War College. Since 1992 he has been active in international education, leading a study abroad program on World War II to London and Normandy each summer and developing the award-winning Vietnam Study Abroad Program. Dr. Wiest has published more than a dozen books on various topics, including Vietnam’s Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN, which won the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award; America and the Vietnam War; Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land; and Passchendaele and the Royal Navy. Additionally Dr. Wiest has appeared in and consulted on several historical documentaries for the History Channel, Granada Television, PBS, the BBC, and Lucasfilm. He lives in Hattiesburg with his family. |
