Education
PhD Duke University, 1999
Research Interests
Wayne Lee specializes in early modern military history, with a particular focus on North America and the Atlantic World, but he teaches military history from a full global perspective at the undergraduate and graduate level. He also teaches courses on violence as well as on the early English exploration of the Atlantic. As a kind of additional career, he works with archaeology projects in the Balkans and has numerous publications in that field. For more details on Professor Lee’s research see the link to his personal web page above.
For the Academic Year 2021-2022 I am serving as the Colin S. Gray Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies, at the US Air Force’s School for Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS). I can still be reached by the email shown here.
Some Notable Publications
- Wayne E. Lee, David L. Preston, David Silbey, and Anthony E. Carlson, The Other Face of Battle: America’s Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).
- Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
- Editor, with Michael Galaty, Ols Lafe, and Zamir Tafilica, Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2013)
- Barbarians and Brothers: Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865 (Oxford University Press, 2011).
- Editor, Warfare and Culture in World History (NYU Press, 2011)
- Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence in Riot and War (University Press of Florida, 2001)
- “Fortify, Fight, or Flee: Tuscarora and Cherokee Defensive Warfare and Military Culture Adaptation,” Journal of Military History 68 (2004): 713–770
Graduate Students
- Tom Scovel (Co-Advised with Joseph Glatthaar)
- Susannah Haury
- Kip DiEugenio (Co-advised with Joseph T. Glatthaar)
- Zach Alessi-Friedlander
- Cavender Sutton
- Ariel Wilks
Courses Taught (as schedule allows)
For current information about course offerings, click here.
- HIST 292H—Early English Exploration and Colonization
- HIST 351—Global History of Warfare
- PWAD 350—National and International Security