“The Center’s Lecture Series features leading thinkers discussing the lessons learned from mankind’s predilection for violence. The goal of the Lecture Series, as with the Center itself, endeavors to aid us in understanding and preparing for future conflict, rather than judging the past as inferior to modernity.”
A. Wess Mitchell is an author, historian, and former diplomat. He received a B.A. from Texas Tech University, an M.A. from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. from the Otto Suhr Institut für Politikwissenschaft at Freie Universität in Berlin. From 2017 to 2019, he served in the Trump administration as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Mark Moyar joined Hillsdale College in 2021 as the William P. Harris Chair in Military History. From 2018 to 2019, he served as the Director of the Office of Civilian-Military Cooperation at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Author, The Village.
Major General (Retired) Viet Luong emigrated from Vietnam with his family to the United States in 1975 as a political refugee, upon the fall of Saigon.
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; his focus is classics and military history.
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; his focus is classics and military history.
Jason M. Gehrke is Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for Military History and Strategy at Hillsdale College.
Mattias Gassman is Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education. He was previously a research fellow at the University of St. Andrews and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford.
Anthony Kaldellis’ research explores the history, culture, and literature of the east Roman empire from antiquity to the fifteenth century.
Dr. O'Hanlon is the Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American national security policy.
Kelly Robert DeVries (born December 23, 1956) is an American historian specializing in the warfare of the Middle Ages. He is often featured as an expert commentator on television documentaries. He is professor of history at Loyola University Maryland and Honorary Historical Consultant at the Royal Armouries, UK.
Adrian Goldsworthy is an ancient historian, lecturer, and author of more than two dozen books and numerous articles and reviews on Greek and Roman history and military history. A graduate of St. John’s College, Oxford University, he received a D.Phil. in ancient history in 1994. He previously taught at Cardiff University, King’s College London, and the University of Notre Dame.