Keynote Speakers

Alan McPherson specializes in the history of U.S.-Latin American relations and teaches broadly in U.S. foreign relations and global history. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 after receiving an M.A. in history from San Francisco State University (1996) and a B.A. in history and economics from the Université de Montréal (1994). Before coming to Temple, he also taught at the University of Oklahoma (2008-2017) and Howard University (2001-2008). He has published twelve books and dozens of articles and chapters and has been a fellow at Harvard University and twice a Fulbright Fellow.

Mary Elizabeth Walters is an Assistant Professor at Air Command and Staff College. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019 and her MA from UNC in 2014. She spent a year of fieldwork in Albania and Kosovo funded by a National Security Education Program Boren Fellowship.

Walters has received numerous FLAS grants from the Department of Education to study Albanian and Serbo-Croatian, as well as the Allan Millet Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Society for Military History and research funding from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. Previously she served as the Graduate Student Representative for the Society for Military History between 2013–2016.