G. Kurt Piehler PhD
Roles:
Author,
Section Editor
Editorial groups:
Associate Editors
Affiliation:
History, U.S. Air Force Academy
Country:
United States
Biography
G. Kurt Piehler, Director of the Institute of World War II and the Human Experience at Florida State University, is author of A Religious History of the American GI in World War II (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), Remembering War the American Way (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, reprint ed., 2004) and World War II (Greenwood Press, 2007) in the American Soldiers’ Lives series. Piehler is the editor of Encyclopedia of Military Science (2013) and The United States in World War II: A Documentary Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and he also co-edited Reporting World War II (Fordham University Press, 2023), Oxford Handbook of World War II (Oxford University Press, 2023), The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front (Fordham University Press, 2010), The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspectives (University of Tennessee Press, 2009) and Major Problems in American Military History (Houghton Mifflin, 1999). Piehler edits two book series: World War II: The Global, Human, Ethical Dimension (Fordham University Press) and Legacies of War (University of Tennessee Press). He is a member of the editorial board of the Service Newspapers of World War II digital publication (Adam Mathews) and on the advisory board of the NEH-funded American Soldier Project at Virginia Tech University (americansoldierww2.org). He also served as the lead curator for the exhibit, “Rendezvous with Destiny: Florida and World War II” at the Florida Historic Capitol Museum (December 7, 2021-March 20, 2022).
Piehler has held academic positions at the City University of New York, Drew University, Rutgers University, the University of Tennessee and the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he currently serves as Distinguished Visiting Professor of History.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Drew University, he holds a master’s degree and doctorate in history from Rutgers University.