Donald Stoker (historian) explained

Donald J. Stoker
Occupation:historian
Years Active:1989 - present
Notable Works:The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War

Donald J. Stoker is a military and diplomatic American military historian with expertise in military theory and grand strategy.

Education

He earned his bachelor's degree in 1989, his Master's of Arts in 1990 from Valdosta State University and his PhD in Military and Diplomatic History from Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL in 1997.[1]

Career

Donald Stoker was a Professor of Strategy and Policy for the U.S. Naval War College’s program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California for 18 years.[2] [3] He was a Visiting Fellow and Fulbright Visiting Professor of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria during the 2017-2018 academic year.[4] In 2021, he became Professor of National Security and Resource Strategy at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School of the National Defense University in Washington, DC.[5]

Publications

Awards

The Grand Design was recognized with Fletcher Pratt award for best non-fiction Civil War book of 2010 by the Civil War Round Table of New York[6] and was a Main Selection of the History Book Club.

He was named as an Outstanding Alumnus of Valdosta State University by the Department of History in 2014.[1]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Donald Stoker Talks About World War I and Why It Matters at VSU Oct. 22. valdosta.edu.
  2. Web site: Donald Stoker: The Grand Design - Pritzker Military Museum & Library - Chicago. pritzkermilitary.org.
  3. Web site: Lauded Historian Donald Stoker Bids Farewell to NPS' Naval War College Monterey Program - Today at NPS September 2017 - Naval Postgraduate School. my.nps.edu.
  4. https://www.da-vienna.ac.at/Portals/0/Faculty/Stoker_CV_2017-10.pdf
  5. Web site: Dr. Donald Stoker . 2024-05-30 . The Eisenhower School . en-US.
  6. Web site: Civil War Round Table of New York Fletcher Pratt Award. cwrtnyc.org. 2014-12-15. 2021-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210320171336/https://www.cwrtnyc.org/fletcher-pratt-award.html. dead.