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Heather Stur

Dr. Heather Stur

Professor

Bio

Heather Marie Stur, Ph.D., is professor of history at USM and senior fellow in the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society. She is the author of Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global Sixties (Cambridge 2020), The U.S. Military and Civil Rights Since World War II (ABC-CLIO 2019), and Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era (Cambridge 2011). She is also co-editor of Integrating the U.S. Military: Race, Gender, and Sexuality Since World War II (Johns Hopkins 2017). Dr. Stur91³Ô¹ÏÍø articles have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, National Interest, Orange County Register, Diplomatic History, and other journals and newspapers. In 2013-14, Dr. Stur was a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam, where she was a visiting professor on the Faculty of International Relations at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh City. She is currently writing a book about the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

  • PHD - University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008)
  • MA - Marquette University (2003)
  • BA - Marquette University (1998)

HIS 101 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ World Civilizations to 1500
HIS 102 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ World Civilizations since 1500
HIS 101 Honors
HIS 102 Honors
HON 111 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ Honors Colloquium 1
HON 112 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ Honors Colloquium 2
HIS 201 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ U.S. to 1877
HIS 202 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ U.S. Since 1877
HIS 300 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ Research Seminar for Undergraduate History Majors
HIS 420 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ Women and War
HIS 466 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ U.S. Since 1945
HIS 473 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ U.S. Foreign Relations
HIS 479 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ Music and Migrations: The History of the Delta Blues
HIS 479 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ The History of Sports in America
HIS 497 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ Vietnam Study Abroad
HIS 710 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ Graduate Seminar: Theory and Methods of History
HIS 726 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ Graduate Seminar: U.S. Historiography Since 1865
HIS 736 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ Graduate Seminar: Women and Gender in War, Diplomacy, and Empire
HIS 772 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ Graduate Seminar: The Global Cold War
HIS 774 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ Graduate Seminar: U.S. Foreign Relations
HIS 796 91³Ô¹ÏÍø“ Graduate Teaching Practicum

  • Vietnamese (Professional Working)
  • Spanish (Elementary)
  • Russian (Elementary)

Contact Me

Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 473

Hattiesburg

Email
Heather.SturFREEMississippi

Phone
601.266.4333

Areas of Expertise

Diplomatic history, military history, US since 1945, Cold War, Vietnam War, Global War on Terror, women, gender, international relations