The Department of History welcomes its next Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Research Partner Fellow, Tony Foreman, in January 2024. In this role, he will conduct research in support of the agency's mission to provide the fullest possible accounting for missing personnel to their families and the nation.
The Nebraska alum earned a PhD in May 2023 and an MA in 2016, both focused on history, an area of the College of Arts and Sciences. He was a graduate teaching assistant in the department starting in 2014, and eventually became an instructor. His first book, The Greatest Undertaking: The Unique History of the Nebraska Forest Service, was published in 2017.
The fellow program is sponsored by the Department of Defense. James Le Sueur, department chair and Samuel Clark Waugh Distinguished Professor of International Relations, is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the grant, which was extended for another year to the end of June in 2025.
"The department began collaborating with the DPAA program two years ago," Le Sueur said. "They came to us because they wanted a department with experience making documentary films and creating oral histories. It's been rewarding and interesting to watch so many researchers, based all over the world, working to bring home remains of our fallen soldiers from World War II and other wars.
"It makes me proud to know our department is involved in these national efforts."
Paul Behringer, who was previously in the role, is now in the DPAA office at Offutt Air Force Base.
