About Alex Beckstrand

I am a current Ph.D. student in the United States and the World at the University of Connecticut. I study American civil-military relations and militarism broadly, with a focus on the Woodrow Wilson era. I have completed comprehensive exams and will reach candidacy soemtime this summer (2022). I am also an officer in the United States Marine Corps Reserves and I work in the private sector in the aerospace industry. I am a husband and a father and love spending time with my family on hikes, at baseball games, and enjoying the outdoors.

Alex J. Beckstrand is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Connecticut, where he researches Woodrow Wilson’s civil-military relations. He is an officer in the Marine Corps Reserves, is a Lecturer at Central Connecticut State University, and works in the aerospace industry. Email: alex.beckstrand@uconn.edu Twitter: @AlexBeckstrand

About Alex Beckstrand

NBN Episodes hosted by Alex:

The Military and the Market

Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson

Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War

The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917–1918

Meighen McCrae

The American Army in Germany, 1918-1923

Success Against the Odds

Dean A. Nowowiejski

Death at the Edges of Empire

Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921

Shannon Bontrager

How the Few Became the Proud

Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique 1874-1918

Heather P. Venable