Dr. Richard H. Kohn, Chairman, Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense and Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Executive Secretary, Triangle Institute for Security Studies

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1968)

 M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1964)

A.B., Harvard College (1962)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – HIGHLIGHTS

Visiting Scholar in Strategic Studies, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University

Adjunct Professor, National War College

Chief of Air Force History and Chief Historian, U.S. Air Force

Harold Keith Johnson visiting Chair of Military History, U.S. Army Military History Institute and Army War College

Assistant, Associate and Professor of History, Rutgers University

HONORS AND AFFILIATIONS

USAF's Air University Board of Visitors

Chair, Board of Directors, National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History

Member, American Antiquarian Society

Organization of American Historians Binkley-Stephenson Prize

Society for Military History's Victory Gondos Memorial Service Award

Department of the Army Certificates for Patriotic Civilian Service

 Department of the Air Force, Organizational Excellence and Exceptional Civilian Service Award

PUBLICATIONS

Partial listing:

Eagle and Sword: The Federalists and the Creation of the Military Establishment in America, 1783-1802 (l975)

The United States Military Under the Constitution of the United States, 1789-1989 (New York University Press, 1991)

The Exclusion of Black Soldiers from the Medal of Honor in World War II, co-author, (Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Co., 1997)

"How Democracies Control the Military," Journal of Democracy, 8 (October 1997, pp. 140-153)