Andrew Wiest

Dr. Wiest is University Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi and has served as a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in the United Kingdom and as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Warfighting Strategy at the United States Air Force Air War College. Dr. Wiest is the Founding Director of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society and the Founding Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the National. Guard at Southern Miss.

Dr. Wiest has published widely and presented his research at conferences and at invited talks both nationally and internationally. Dr. Wiest has published more than 20 books, including The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam and Vietnam's Forgotten Army (which won the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award). He has also been nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on National Geographic Channel's documentary Brothers in War, which was based on his book The Boys of '67, and won a New York Festivals Gold Medal for his work on the History Channel documentary Vietnam in HD. His new book, Dogwood: A National Guard Unit's War in Iraq was released in May with Osprey/Bloomsbury.