Heather Marie Stur

Heather Marie Stur, Ph.D., is professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and co-director of the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society. She is the author of four books, including 21 Days to Baghdad: General Buford Blount and the 3rd Infantry Division in the Iraq War (Osprey Publishing, 2023), finalist for the Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Writing Award. Stur's other books include Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global Sixties (Cambridge 2020), The U.S. Military and Civil Rights Since World War II (ABC-CLIO 2019), and Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era (Cambridge 2011). She is also co-editor of Integrating the U.S. Military: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Since World War II (Johns Hopkins 2017). Stur’s op-eds and articles have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, National Interest, Orange County Register, Diplomatic History, War & Society, and other journals and newspapers. In 2013-14, Stur was a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam, where she was a visiting professor on the Faculty of International Relations at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh City. Stur and her husband, Jay Van Orsdol, live in Hattiesburg with their children Angus, Ignatius, and Stephanie.