John A. Lynn

John A. Lynn
John Albert Lynn (born March 18, 1943) is a military historian who has written on a wide variety of topics in his field, with an emphasis on early modern Europe.
Early life and education
Born in Glenview, Illinois, in 1943, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1964), his Master of Arts degree at the University of California, Davis (1967), and his Ph.D. at UCLA (1973).
Career
Lynn taught briefly at Indiana University and the University of Maine, before joining the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1978. During 1994-1995, he was the Oppenheimer Professor of Warfighting Strategy at the Marine Corps University at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. Retiring from the University of Illinois in 2009, he taught for three years at Northwestern University as Distinguished Professor of Military History. In 2012, he returned to the University of Illinois to teach part-time as Professor Emeritus of History and in the Department of Political Science, which he has continued to do up to the present. His current research and teaching interests center on the history of terrorism.
Awards
While at the University of Illinois, Lynn received several teaching awards, including the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2001.
He served as president of the United States Commission on Military History (2003-2007) and vice-president of the Society for Military History (2005-2007).
He has been awarded two foreign decorations: the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques at the rank of chevalier (2004) and the Moroccan Order of Ouissam Alaouite at the rank of commandeur (2006).
In 2017, he received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History. This award is given in recognition of career accomplishments and contributions; it is the highest award granted by the Society. In August 2017, Lynn was awarded a NEH Public Scholar Grant to fund research and writing on his current project, a history of surrender.
Bibliography
Tactical Evolution in the French Army, 1560-1660 (Duke University Press, 1985) French Historical Studies 14 (2): 176–91
Another Kind of War: An Introduction to the History of Terrorism (Yale University Press, forthcoming July 23, 2019)
Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Battle: A History of Combat and Culture (Westview Press, 2003)
Paperback: Basic Books 2004,
The French Wars 1667-1714: the Sun King at War. (Osprey Publishing, 2002)
The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667–1714 (Longman, 1999)
Les guerres de Louis XIV, 1667-1714, traduction Perrin 2010,
Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610–1715 (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
The Bayonets of the Republic: Motivation and Tactics in the Army of Revolutionary France, 1791–94 (Westview Press, 1996)
(editor) Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present (Westview Press, 1993)
(editor) ''The Tools of War: Ideas, Instruments, and Institutions of Warfare, 1445–1871" (University of Illinois Press, 1990)
References
External links
John A. Lynn at ACDIS
Faculty page at UIUC
Living people
American military writers
American military historians
American male non-fiction writers
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
1943 births
University of California, Davis alumni