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Beth Bailey is an American historian who writes about U.S. military history and the history of gender and sexuality. Bailey is currently a Foundation Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, where she teaches in the department of history and directs the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies, which she founded [1] in 2015.
Bailey is an historian of the recent United States. Over the past decade and a half, her research has been primarily in the field of military, war, and society; she has also written extensively on the history of gender and sexuality in the modern United States.
About Me. I’m quite possibly the only scholar in the world who has directed both a Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy and a Feminist Research Institute; most certainly I’m the only one who has written both a history of dating and a history of the US Army.
Drawing on an impressive array of untapped sources, Beth Bailey has crafted an incisive history of the racial conflicts that raged during the Vietnam War era. By exploring this "war within the war," Bailey highlights the stories of dozens of Black soldiers who reshaped the US Army from the inside.
Beth Bailey, who specializes in the history of relations between the U.S. military and American society as well as the history of gender and sexuality, will join KU on Aug. 18. Bailey is one of five Foundation Distinguished Professors to be announced this year and one of 12 overall.
May 2, 2023 · Beth Bailey is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of Kansas and director of the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies.
Nov 23, 2009 · Beth Bailey discusses effectively how changes in the wider U.S. culture - race, feminism, economic opportunity, family relations, homosexuality - were (and are) reflected in the way the Army evolved into an "all-recruited" organization. Bailey's work is rich in detail and generally well-documented.
- Beth Bailey
Director, Center for Military, War, and Society Studies. University of Kansas.
Jan 1, 2005 · Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Kansas, 1987–89. Expertise. War and American culture/society; 20th century American cultural and social history, with a focus on gender and sexuality. Show More. Major Publications. Sex in the Heartland (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999)
Jun 5, 2023 · Beth Bailey. I’m quite possibly the only scholar in the world who has directed both a Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy and a Feminist Research Institute; most certainly I’m the only one who has written both a history of dating and a history of the US Army.
