Hillsdale College

Faculty and Fellows

Distinguished Fellows

Distinguished Fellows are prominent scholars and very senior retired military officers of exceptional accomplishment, invited on an annual basis to teach and lecture to the students and faculty of Hillsdale College. The Distinguished Fellowship enriches Hillsdale’s scholarly community and provides rare opportunities for students to learn from world leaders and prominent historians.

Jeremey Black
Jeremy Black, MBE
Distinguished Fellow

MA, Cantab
PhD, Dunelm FRSA

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Victor Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
Distinguished Fellow

PhD, Classics, Stanford University
BA, Classics, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Jeremey Black
Ricky L. Waddell
Distinguished Fellow

BS, USMA
BA, Oxford
MA, Oxford
MA, Webster
MA, Columbia
MPHIL, PhD, Columbia
Army Command and General Staff Officers Course
Air War College

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Faculty

The Center for Military History & Strategy is currently composed of five Hillsdale College history faculty, with one faculty member appointed as director of the Center and one faculty member appointed as the associate director of the Center.  

Paul Rahe
Jason Gehrke
Associate Director for the Center of Military History and Strategy

PhD, Marquette University

jgehrke@hillsdale.edu

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Mark Moyar
Mark Moyar
William P. Harris Chair in Military History

PhD, History, University of Cambridge
BA, History, Harvard University

mmoyar@hillsdale.edu

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Paul Rahe
Paul A. Rahe
Director for the Center of Military History and Strategy

PhD, History, Yale University
BA, Oxon, Litterae Humaniores, University of Oxford
BA, History, Yale University

prahe@hillsdale.edu

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Paul Rahe
Miles Smith
Assistant Professor of History

PhD, History, Texas Christian University
MA, History, The Citadel and The College of Charleston
BA, History, The College of Charleston

msmith@hillsdale.edu

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Dave Stewart
Dave Stewart
Professor of History

PhD, Early Modern European History, The Ohio State University
MA, Early Modern European History, The Ohio State University
BA, History, Eastern Nazarene College
BS, Chemistry, Eastern Nazarene College

hstewart@hillsdale.edu

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Tom Conner
Tom Conner
Professor Emeritus of History

PhD, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MA, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA, Elizabethtown College