Beth Bailey

Professor, Director and Author
University of Kansas

Dr. Bailey is a Foundation Distinguished Professor, director of the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies, and a member of the history department at the University of Kansas.

She has written or edited twelve books, including An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era, and America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force. Professor Bailey received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement from the Society for Military History in 2022, and she chairs the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Subcommittee.

Her research has been supported by the Carnegie Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.