About the Dale Center for 战争研究 & 社会

Former president of the 社会 for Military History Brian McAllister Linn described Southern Miss’s Center as one of the rising stars in the field.  历史学家韦恩·李， chair of the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, argued that the DCSW&S’s “excellent program” and approach 到 field explains our rise 到 top in the military history community.  戴尔中心 战争研究 & 社会 at Southern Miss is competitive with the best-funded, top military history programs in the country including the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Temple University, Ohio State University, and Kansas State University. 

DCSW&S faculty are internationally recognized as some of the best scholars in their 字段.  They have produced and continue to produce award-winning publications, they participate in documentaries, symposia, and other speaking engagements, and 他们是优秀的教师.

动物的多样性 戴尔中心的教职员工 is not only evident in its wide historical coverage of geographic regions and time periods, but also in its range of  historical methodologies; our faculty includes social historians, historians of gender and ethnicity, cultural historians, international relations specialists, and traditional military historians.  This wide array of faculty skills and expertise is a major reason the Center’s cadre of graduate students grows larger and more impressive every year.

的DCSW&年代了 exceptional graduate students from across the country to study the history of conflict from every imaginable angle.  War and 社会 graduate students at Southern Miss are driven to succeed academically and are extremely active in the profession as well, attending and presenting at major history conferences from the beginning of their graduate careers.  我们的学生 take advantage of the opportunity to study the history of war with Center faculty in the places it happened, such as Normandy, Britain, and Vietnam, via the University’s strong 留学项目.  The Center’s students have been recognized for their success; the DCSW&年代有 graduate student recipients of the two major military history graduate awards: the U.S. Army Center for Military History’s Dissertation Fellowship and the General Lemuel C. 小牧羊犬,., Memorial Dissertation Fellowship from the Marine Corps Heritage 基金会.    

The Center also plays an active role in the community through our annual Richard McCarthy Lecture Series, lectures and discussions in partnership with the Hattiesburg Public Library, our fellows’ participation in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Southern Miss, and other regular programs.  The Center and its faculty are also active in the world of military history museums and sites, with strong ties 到 Army Historical Education Center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania; the National World War II Museum in New Orleans; the African American Military History Museum in Hattiesburg; Camp Shelby’s Mississippi Armed Forces Museum; the Chalmette, Vicksburg, and Shiloh National Military Parks; and other regional historic sites.

The Dale Center is named in honor of the Beverly Dale Family, who also sponsor the Dale Distinguished Lecture Series.  For more information on the Dale family's support, 点击这里.

Dale Center Faculty with Dale Distinguished Lecture speaker Gen. 大卫·彼得雷乌斯 2016.