BOBBY A. WINTERMUTE

US military history, gender, race

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-Z
Phone: 718-997-5120
bobby.wintermute@qc.cuny.edu

Professor Bobby Wintermute received his BA from Montclair State University in 1991, his MA from East Stroudsburg University in 1997, and his PhD from Temple University in 2006. His research focus is on topics related to War and Society studies, a sub-field within the broader discipline of Military History, and the US Army from 1890 through the Progressive Era and World War II. This is reflected in his published work, where he has written on military medicine and public health (Public Health and the U.S. Military: A History of The Army Medical Department, 1818-1917 – Routledge, 2010), race and gender studies (Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare – DeGruyter, 2019), and religion and war (Great War, Religious Dimensions – Cambridge University Press, 2020). His teaching covers a broad range of social and cultural topics related to war, military culture, and American military history, as well as the history of American foreign policy. He has also taught oral history practices and methods on the undergraduate and graduate level, having received his training at the University of California-Berkeley Bancroft Library’s Regional Oral History Office.

Professor Wintermute is currently preparing a second edition of Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare. He is also working on a study of prisons, crime, and military service in the United States during the First World War, focusing on Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary. He has received grants from the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, where he was scholar-in-residence in 2004. Dr. Wintermute directed the Queens College Veteran Alumni project, a student-based oral history outreach initiative aimed at preserving the memory of veterans from the borough of Queens, from 2007 until 2018. He was also a founding co-host of the New Books in Military History podcast. He is currently the Director of Graduate Studies for the History Department at Queens College.

Hobbies and pastimes include global and American travel, cooking, hosting friends and family for parties and dinners, music (live and recorded), film (cheesy and serious), gaming (tabletop rpgs, computer games, and board games), and exploring abandoned locations.