Thursday15Oct 2020

Korea: The Beachhead for Liberty, Peace, and Protest

A lecture by Dr. Cameron McCoy of the U.S. Air Force Academy

Thursday, October 15, 2020 5:00 p.m. PST
2020-10-15 17:00 2020-10-15 18:00 America/Los_Angeles Korea: The Beachhead for Liberty, Peace, and Protest Go to event listing for more details: https://events.chapman.edu/81671 Online Dr. Kyle Longley longley@chapman.edu

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Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on the Significance of Race

MA War & Society Program presents:

Korea: The Beachhead for Liberty, Peace, and Protest

Join Dr. Cameron McCoy of the United States Air Force Academy on African Americans in Korea, the first war with fully integrated units.

Join Zoom Discussion: https://chapman.zoom.us/j/95551316226

Zoom Meeting ID: 955 5131 6226

 

Dr. Cameron McCoy is a native of Washington, D.C. and is currently an assistant professor of U.S. Diplomatic and Military history at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). His focus of research is 20th and 21st century military and diplomatic history as well as the race relations the American military. Before arriving at USAFA the fall of 2019, Dr. McCoy was an assistant professor of U.S. History at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 2017 to 2019. Before that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the United States Military Academy at West Point during the 2016–2017 academic year. He earned his doctorate in U.S. history at the University of Texas at Austin after receiving a masters in military history at Texas A&M University, and his bachelors in International & Area Studies at BYU. In addition to being a professor at USAFA and teaching courses on the Great Wars, U.S. Foreign Policy, modern warfare studies, Dr. McCoy also serves in the Marine Corps Reserves as an infantry officer. He has held several positions of command while serving multiple combat tours and deployments to various countries in support of Operations IRAQI and ENDURING FREEDOM.

 

You can contact the event organizer, Dr. Kyle Longley at longley@chapman.edu.

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