“Fun in the Foxhole: Bringing Home to the Front Lines of War” will be presented by Professor Kara Dixon Vuic as this year’s addition to the Institute on WWII’s annual lecture series.
Join the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience for our annual Spring Lecture by Professor Kara Dixon Vuic of Texas Christian University, who will speak on the contribution of American women to twentieth century warfare. This talk will follow the young, adventurous American women who traveled to warzones to entertain soldiers, boost their morale, and remind them of the stakes of victory.
Kara Dixon Vuic is the LCpl Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America at Texas Christian University and author of the newly released The Girls Next Door: Brining the Home Front to the Front Lines (Harvard University Press, 2019). She is also the author of Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurses Corps in the Vietnam War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) and the Routledge Handbook on Gender, War, and the Military (2017), and co-editor (with Richard Fogarty) of the University of Nebraska Press's book series: "Studies in War, Society, and the Military." She is currently co-editing a collection "Managing Sex in the U.S. Military" with Beth Bailey, Alesha Doan, and Shannnon Portillo and working on a new book called "Drafting Women."
Free Admission
2020/02/27 - 2020/02/27
Additional time info:
The lecture is anticipated to run between 45 minutes to an hour, and will be followed by a reception.
FSU Alumni Center Rendina Room
1030 W. Tennessee Street, Tallahassee, Florida, Tallahassee, FL 32304