Lecturer Dr. Andrew Walgren is a military historian whose research focuses on the relationship between mass media, popular culture, and the U.S. military. Specifically, his scholarship examines the complex web of cultural institutions, actors, and organizations that transformed America's national cultural apparatus during the World Wars. Walgren's research addresses themes of cultural democracy, sensory history, the "culture industry," mass-mediated militarization, and cultural nationalism. His abiding interest is the dialectical relationship between the U.S. military and cultural institutions. Dr. Walgren's work has been recognized and supported by the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New York Public Library, the University of Alabama's Frances S. Summersell Center for Study of the South, the University of South Carolina, George Mason University, and the American Cultural Association. In 2020, his scholarship was awarded the Wilfrid and Rebecca Callcott Foundation Award for Excellence in Historical Research. He has presented his research at the Society for Military History, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the South Carolina Historical Association, and the American Cultural Association. In addition, Walgren's teaching has been recognized by the University of South Carolina's Bridge Humanities Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship program, where he taught seminar-style courses in ethics, advocacy, and public policy, and the University of Georgia's Special Collections Library. Dr. Walgren has forthcoming chapters in the Routledge History of the First World War and ‘That Pageant Terrible’: Cultural Representations of the African American War Experience. These chapters discuss, respectively, the historiographical debates on the United States' role in the Great War and the story of Noble Sissle's biography of James Reese Europe, the trailblazing bandleader of the Harlem Hellfighters. His dissertation, "Media Combat: The Great War and the Transformation of American Culture," is currently under revision in preparation for publication. In his spare time, Walgren enjoys old-school gaming, camping, walking his two beloved dogs, and suffering as a fan of Arsenal football. Courses taught: HIST 2111: American History to 1865 HIST 2112: American History since 1865 HIST 3073: Modern America, 1945-Present HIST 3752: War and Society since 1500 HIST 4072: The U.S. Civil War HIST 4094: The Vietnam War HIST 4400: The Age of World Wars I and II HIST 4402: World War II in History and Memory Research Research Areas: U.S. 19th & 20th Century War and Diplomacy Cultural & Intellectual Europe-Modern Film and History Women and Gender Selected Publications Selected Publications: Walgren, Andrew S. "The United States of America during the First World War." In The Routledge History of the First World War, edited by Paul Bartrop. London: Routledge, 2024. --. "'The Most Serious Work I've Ever Undertaken': Noble Sissle, James Reese Europe, and the Biography of Racial Reclamation." In 'That Pageant Terrible': Cultural Representations of the African American War Experience, edited by Jennifer James and Steven Trout. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2025. Education Education: Ph.D., History, University of South Carolina, 2021 M.A., History, University of South Carolina, 2016 B.A., History, University of Georgia, 2013 B.A., Art History, University of Georgia, 2013
