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Dr. Jennifer Keene
Professor, Chair, Department of History
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Department of History
Office Location:
Roosevelt Hall 136
Office Hours: M 1-3pm; By Appt.
- Education:
- The George Washington University, Bachelor of Arts
The George Washington University, Master of Arts
Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D.
Biography
Jennifer D. Keene is a specialist in American military experience during World War I. She is currently President of the Society of Military History. She has published three books on the American involvement in the First World War: Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America (2001), World War I: The American Soldier Experience (2011), and The United States and the First World War (2000). She is also the lead author for an American history textbook, Visions of America: A History of the United States that uses a visual approach to teaching students U.S. history. She has received numerous awards for her scholarship, including Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards to France and Australia and Mellon Library of Congress Fellowship in International Studies. She served as an associate editor for the Encyclopedia of War and American Society (2005) which won the Society of Military History's prize for best military history reference book. She co-edited, along with Michael Neiberg of Finding Common Ground: New Directions in First World War Studies (2011). In 2011 she won the Jack Miller Center Prize for the best military or diplomatic history essay published in Historically Speaking. She has published numerous essays and journal articles on the war, served as an historical consultant for exhibits and films, and as an associate editor of the Journal of First World War Studies. She is currently working on several projects related to the upcoming centennial of World War I, including a book on African American soldiers and a new synthesis of the American experience during the war under contract with Oxford University Press. She is also a general editor for the “1914-1918-online,” peer-reviewed online encyclopedia, http://www.1914-1918-online.net/, a major digital humanities project.
Read the Happenings article featuring Dr. Keene and her Fulbright experience in Australia.
Watch the video of Dr. Keene's interview, one in a series of interviews with Fulbright scholars for the 60th anniversary of the Australian-American Fulbright educational and cultural exchange.
Dr. Keene's Publication's You Can Find on Amazon:
 | “Hemingway: A Typical Doughboy.” In War and Ink: New Perspectives on Hemingway’s Early Life and Writings, ed. Steven Trout.Kent State University Press, (2013). |
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 | World War I: The American Soldier Experience, University of Nebraska Press, (2011) |
 | Finding Common Ground: New Directions in First World War Studies,Edited by Jennifer D. Keene and Michael S. Neiberg, (2011) |
 | First World War Studies, Book Review Editor - Jennifer Keene, Routledge Press, (2010) |
 | Visions of America: A History of the United States, with Saul Cornell and Ed O'Donnell. Prentice Hall Publishing, (2010) 2 Volumes |
 | Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America (War/Society/Culture) Johns Hopkins University Press, (2006) |
 | Encyclopedia of War and American Society, associate editor. Sage Publishing, (2005) |
 | World War 1, American Soldiers Lives Series Greenwood Press, (2003) |
More of Dr. Keene's publications (click on link to download PDFs):
“Americans Respond: Perspectives on the Global War, 1914 –1917,”Geschichte und Gesellschaft 40 (2014): 266-86.
"Wilson and Race Relations."A Companion to Woodrow Wilson, ed. Ross A. Kennedy: Wiley-Blackwell (2013).
The Long Journey Home: African American World War/Veterans and Veterans' Policies, ed. Stephan R. Ortiz: University Press of Flordia (2012).
"Sustaining the Will to Fight: The American Army in World War I."In Raise, Train and Sustain: Delivering Land Combat Power, ed. Peter Dennis & Jeffrey Grey. Commonwealth of Australia: Australian Military History Publications (AMHP) (2010).
"United States in the First World War." In A Companion to the First World War, ed. John Horne. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing (2010).
"Images of Racial Pride: African American Propaganda Posters in the First World War." In Picture This! Reading World War I Posters, ed. Pearl James. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2009).
"The Memory of the Great War in the African American Community." In Unknown Soldiers: The American Expeditionary Forces in Memory and Remembrance, ed. Mark Snell. Ohio: Kent State University Press (2008).
American at War: Assessing the Significance of American Participation in the Great War." In New Zealand in the Great War, ed. John Crawford. Wellington: Exilsle Publishing (2007).
"Protest and Disability: A New Look at African American Soldiers During the First World War." In Warfare and Belligerence: Perspectives in First World War Studies, ed. Pierre Purseigle. London: Brill Academic Publishers (2005).
A Comparative Study of White and Black American Soldiers during the First World War.">Annales de Demographie Historique, no. 1 (July 2002).
"Doughboys at War."Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, 17 no. 1 (October 2002).
"French and American Racial Stereotypes during the First World War." In National Stereotypes in Perspective: Frenchmen in America: Americans in France, ed. William Chew. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press (2001).
"W.E.B. Dubois and the Wounded World: Seeking Meaning in the First World War for African Americans,"Peace & Change 26, no.2. (April 2001)
"Uneasy Alliances: French Military Intelligence and the American Army during the First World War,"Intelligence and National Security 13, no. 1 (Spring 1998).
"Intelligence and Morale in the Army of a Democracy: The Genesis of Military Psychology during the First World War,"Military Psychology 6, no. 4 (1994).
Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
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“Deeds Not Words: American Social Justice Movements and World War I,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 17 (2018).
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“True Sons of Freedom,” American Legion Magazine (February 2018): 22-30.
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World War II in American History, Core Documents (Ashland: Ashbrook Press, 2017).
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“The United States, World War I, and the Peace Settlement, 1914-1920,” in American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature, ed. Alan L. McPherson (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
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“Mobilization,” in World War I Remembered ed. Robert J. Dalessandro and Robert K. Sutton (Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2017),
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“Understanding and Interpreting the American Experience in World War I,” History News, The Official Magazine of the American Association for State and Local History, Fall 2017.
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Visions of America: A History of the United States 3e, with Saul Cornell and Edward O’Donnell. New York Pearson, 2016.
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“Remembering the ‘Forgotten War’: American Historiography on World War I,” Historian 78 (Fall 2016): 439-468.
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Curator, To Arms: The Western Front, 1914-1918, museum exhibit, Feb. 2, 2015 – June 15, 2015 Doy and Dee Henley Galleria, Chapman University.
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“Why World War I is Important in American History: The Lay of the Land,” The American Historian, 3 (Feb. 2015): 22-26.
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“Interchange: World War I,” co-moderator and participant, Journal of American History (Sept. 2015): 1-37.
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Associate Editor, Journal of First World War Studies, 2010-2016
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“North America.” In The Cambridge History of the First World War, vol. 1, ed. Jay Winter and John Horne. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Translated into French, “Amérique du Nord,” Le Monde en guerre, partie III, La Première Guerre mondiale. Fayard, 2013.
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“Americans Respond: Perspectives on the Global War, 1914 –1917,” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 40 (2014): 266-86.
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“Call to Duty: Women and World War I,” Oklahoma Humanities Magazine (Fall 2014): 22-25.
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Contributing Editor and author, Calliope: World History Magazine for Kids, World War I issue, April 2014.
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“Wilson and Race Relations.” In A Companion to Woodrow Wilson, ed. Ross A. Kennedy, Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2013.
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“Hemingway: A Typical Doughboy.” In War and Ink: New Perspectives on Hemingway’s Early Life and Writings, ed. Steven Trout. Kent State University Press, 2013.
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Visions of America: A History of the United States 2e, with Saul Cornell and Edward O’Donnell. New York: Pearson, 2012.
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"The Long Journey Home: African American World War I Veterans and Veteran Policies." In Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics: New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States, ed. Stephen R. Ortiz. University Press of Florida, 2012.
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“Fighting the Great War: Re-considering the American Soldier Experience,” Historically Speaking (January 2012): 7-9. Winner of 2011 Jack Miller Center Prize.
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“World War I,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History website, http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/progressive-era-new-era-1900-1929/world-war-i
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World War I: The American Soldier Experience. University of Nebraska Press.
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Finding Common Ground: New Directions in First World War Studies. Ed. with Michael Neiberg. Brill Publishing,
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American Historical Review (December 2010), Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I by Adriane Lentz-Smith. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2009.
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Journal of American History (March 2011), Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle against White Supremacy in the Postwar South by Christopher S. Parker. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
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Journal of Military History (July 2011), Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era by Chad L. Williams. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.