Military History Consortium

Military History Consortium

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The Military History Consortium (MHC) connects institutions, academics, and students engaged in the study of warfare and/or military organisations in the past. Its dual aim is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas in order to strengthen international research co-operation and a framework for joint teaching initiatives and programmes. The MHC’s membership is international, and its scope is global. While the consortium’s teaching and research agendas focus on the past, it seeks to address contemporary security challenges and inform related policy debates. It is only the study of war and the military in the past that enables us to understand and contextualise the present and thus prepare for the future.

Members:

University of Amsterdam
University of Calgary
ISCTE - University Institute Lisbon
Stellenbosch University
Sciences Po Aix
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Norwich University
Sapienza University of Rome
Félix Houphouët-Boigny University Abidjan

The MHC aims to:

organise an annual conference, which is held by its members on a rotating basis, and provides a welcoming platform for early career researchers;
host regular online research seminars for postgraduate research students;
develop a handbook on the global history of warfare and military organisations, jointly edited and authored by the MHC membership.

Co-Directors

Anna La Grange

Anna La Grange is a DFG Military Cultures of Violence research group member and a PhD candidate at the University of Potsdam's Global History chair. Her research critically examines excessive violence by white South African troops during the first half of the twentieth century from a postcolonial and international law perspective. La Grange has published several articles and contributed book chapters in various international contexts. She has secured funding from several organisations to support her research, including the DFG, Erasmus+, EDUC, and the DAAD. She has participated in conferences, colloquiums, workshops, and seminars in Germany, England, Cyprus, South Africa, France, and Poland. She is also co-editing a volume exploring military encounters between Italy and South Africa in the twentieth century with Prof. Evert Kleynhans and Dr. Mariella Terzoli.

Evert Kleynhans

Professor Evert Kleynhans is an Associate Professor in the Department of Military History at the Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University. He is the Editor of Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies. Several of his articles and chapters have been published in academic journals and books. He is the author of Hitler’s Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa (2021), The Naval War in South African Waters, 1939-1945 (2022), as well as the co-author of 20 Battles: Searching for a South African Way of War (2023).

Mariella Terzoli

Dr. Mariella Terzoli earned her PhD in contemporary history in 2023 at the University of Milan in cotutelle with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her research focused on Italians who fought in Indochina within the French Foreign Legion (1946-1956), from enlistment to the end of their contracts. She subsequently began a one-year postdoc at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” on the production and circulation of trade guns from Europe to Central Africa in the nineteenth century. She has recently begun a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut d’études avancées de Paris within the ERC Advanced Grant ‘The Global War on Civilians, 1905-1945’. She investigates the interwar development of air strategies and, in parallel, the links between the Allies’ bombardment and Fascist Italy’s home front during the Second World War.

Marco Wyss

Professor Marco Wyss is Professor of International History and Security at 缅北轮奸; a Research Fellow at the Department of Military History, Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University; and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. He previously held a range of positions at ETH Zurich, the universities of Chichester, Lausanne, and the Free State, and the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, and held visiting professorships at Sciences Po Lille and Sciences Po Aix. His research focuses on the Cold War, military assistance, postcolonial security in Africa, as well as defence in Africa and Europe. He is the editor of the International Journal of Military History and Historiography and co-edits the book series ‘New Perspectives on the Cold War’ (Brill). His latest single-authored book is Postcolonial Security: Britain, France, and West Africa’s Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Board

Arthur Banga

Dr Arthur Banga, with doctorates in the history of international relations from Houphouët-Boigny University and the history of military strategies from Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, is a distinguished lecturer at Houphouët-Boigny University in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. His 2014 thesis, “L’aide militaire française dans la politique de défense de la Côte d’Ivoire de 1960 à 2002,” underpins his ongoing research into African defence issues and the Ivorian army’s counter-terrorism efforts. He directs seminars at the Zambakro War College, Côte d'Ivoire, and contributes widely to political history and geopolitical discourse on Africa, particularly his home country. A prominent media columnist in Côte d'Ivoire, Banga is also a trainer and consultant for various organisations. He was notably the spokesperson for African civil society at the Montpellier summit and actively supports youth associations.

Walter Bruyère-Ostells

Professor Walter Bruyère-Ostells is Professor of War History at Sciences Po Aix. His research encompasses the First French Empire, mercenaries and armed volunteers during the Cold War in Africa, and intelligence studies. He co-directs the Master in Geostrategy, Defence and International Security and is Scientific Director of the Intelligence Chair at Sciences Po Aix. He also lectures at the French Air Force Academy. Bruyère-Ostells is a member of the scientific boards for Etudes françaises de renseignement et de cyber and Les champs de Mars. He also served as Director of Historical Research at the French Ministyr of Defence from 2021 to 2024. His recent publications include co-directing Anthologie des penseurs militaires français (2025) and Le COS. Histoire des forces spéciales françaises (2022). He also contributed "France in the Mediterranean..." to the Routledge Handbook on Cooperation, Interdependencies and Security in the Mediterranean (2024).

Bruno Cardoso Reis

Dr Bruno Cardoso Reis was a Visiting FLAD Professor at Georgetown University for the 2024-2025 academic year, teaching "Empires at War." Since 2021, he's directed the PhD programme in History, Defence and Security Studies at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and the Portuguese Military Academy. He also served as Deputy Director of the Center for International Studies/CEI, ISCTE-IUL, and from 2019-2022, was a Special Advisor to the Portuguese Minister of Defence. Holding a Ph.D. in War Studies from King’s College London, an M.Phil. from Cambridge, and an MA from the University of Lisbon, Reis has over 70 academic publications. His research spans irregular warfare, counterinsurgency, global history of late imperialism, decolonisation, late colonial wars, transatlantic Cold War relations, and the Portuguese authoritarian regime.

Samu?l Kruizinga

Professor Samuël Kruizinga is an Associate Professor of War Studies and Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. Educated in Leiden, Paris, and Oxford, his interdisciplinary work blends history with political, social, and economic sciences, strategic studies, and digital humanities. His research explores conflict and resilience in modern Europe, focusing on ‘slow violence’ and ‘grey zones’. These themes inform his studies of First and Second World War occupations, foreign fighting (including in Ukraine), and twentieth century sanctions. A Principal Investigator for significant ERC and NWO projects, including the ERC Synergy project BLOCKADE, Kruizinga has secured over €18 million in funding. He has authored numerous publications in leading journals like European Review of History and War in History. He is also co-writing two forthcoming books with the Cambridge and Oxford University Presses. He holds extensive teaching and supervisory experience, having established a Master's programme in Military History.

Giacomo Macola

Professor Giacomo Macola is Associate Professor of African History at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. His latest monographs are The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics (Ohio University Press, 2016) and A Violent History: Power and Conflict in the Congo Basin from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (Leuven University Press, in press; orig. Italian ed., Viella, 2021). His articles have appeared in several scholarly journals, including the Journal of Global History, the Journal of African History, and the International Journal of African Historical Studies. He co-edits the Ohio University Press’ series ‘War and Militarism in African History’, and he is a corresponding member of the Belgian Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer.

Timothy Stapleton

Professor Tim Stapleton is a Professor in the Department of History and the Graduate Programme Director for the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies (CMSS) at the University of Calgary in Canada. He currently holds honorary positions at the Nigerian Defence Academy and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Focusing on African military history, he has published 13 sole-authored books and numerous articles and chapters. His books range from original research contributions such as African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80 (2011) and West African Soldiers in Britain’s Colonial Army (1860-1960) (2022) to broad works of synthesis such as A Military History of South Africa (2010) and New Directions in African Military History (2025). Previously, Stapleton taught at Rhodes University and the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, and Trent University in Ontario, Canada, and held research positions at universities in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Botswana.

David Ulbrich

Dr David J. Ulbrich is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Peace and War Center at Norwich University, USA. He is an award-winning author, teacher, and consultant. He has taught military history at several American institutions, most recently at Norwich. Ulbrich’s historical research focuses on the Second World War, U.S. Marine Corps, amphibious warfare, and war and society. He has published several books, including Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps, 1936-1943 (Naval Institute Press, 2011), the co-authored Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare (De Gruyter, 2019), and the co-authored Ways of War: American Military History from the Colonial Era to the Twenty-First Century (3^rd ed., Routledge, 2025). Ulbrich co-edits the “Ways of War” Book Series for the University of Oklahoma Press. His future projects include revising a new edition of a World War II textbook.

Events

MHC Conference 2025

The Military History Consortium (MHC) held its second annual conference on 4-6 June 2025 at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal

MHC Conference 2025

The inaugural MHC Conference (2024)

The MHC held its first annual conference on 6-8 June 2024 at 缅北轮奸.

MHC Conference 2024

MHC Seminar Programme

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