Adrian Richard Lewis
Adrian R. Lewis is a United States Army veteran, American historian and the David B. Pittaway Professor and Quincy Institute Fellow at the University of Kansas, where he has been a history professor since 2008. Education. Lewis earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his Masters of Arts from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in European and Military history. He also earned his Masters of Business Administration from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Edwardsville. Lewis earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1995 under  historian Michael Geyer. His' dissertation became his first book, "Omaha Beach: A Flawed Victory" (2001, University of North Carolina Press). The book analyzes the Normandy Invasion and the battle for Omaha Beach. His second book, "The American Culture of War", was published by Routledge,in 2007. (2nd ed, 2012, third, 2018.) Military service. He is a retired United States Army Officer, who served in the Ninth Infantry Division and the Second Ranger Battalion at Fort Lewis, Washington. Consequently, his areas of expertise include national security, 20th-century warfare, military affairs, Korean War, Vietnam War, World War II, D-Day - Normandy  Invasion at Omaha Beach and military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Academic career. Lewis has taught at the United States Military Academy, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of North Texas, Denton, where he chaired the Department of History. He has also taught the Strategy and Policy course for the Naval War College. At the University of Kansas, Lewis served as the first Director of the Office of Professional Military Graduate Education, an office he helped create. This office worked extensively with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, creating new advanced degree programs . This included the creation of the Wounded Warriors Program at the University of Kansas. Lewis specializes in 20th-century warfare: World War II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the more recent military operations, including Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.