The Second World War Research Group

North America Regional Group

The Second World War Research Group, North America is an organisation that brings together those scholars across North America who are researching the broad period of the Second World War. The group aims to promote innovative research, serve to connect scholars, as well as provide a clearinghouse and central point of contact for research on the Second World War.

As part of its mission, the Second World War Research Group, North America will act as a regional forum for:

Bringing together new perspectives on the conflict;
Publicising recent and current research into the conflict and its global impact;
Encouraging collaboration in research across the scholarly community and academic disciplines;
Providing an organisational hub for conferences, seminars and other events relating to the conflict; and
Supporting members by serving as the first point of contact for key stakeholders and audiences interested in research and expertise on the Second World War.

Committee

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Director

Kathryn is a Professor of History at Mississippi State University. Her work primarily focuses on deception and intelligence history in the World War II era, especially related to the Normandy campaign and beyond. She has published books on the Normandy campaign deception plan and former Nazis accused of war crimes who were investigated by a branch of the United States Department of Justice as well as numerous chapters in edited volumes. She currently co-edits War in History. In addition to being Co-Director of SWWRG, NA, she is Vice-President of the Society for Intelligence History and will assume the role of president in 2025.

Kathryn is also the Vice-President of the Second World War Research Group's Council.

Director

Dr Jadwiga Biskupska

Jadwiga Biskupska is associate professor of military history at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX and co-director of the Second World War Research Group, North America. She received her PhD in history from Yale University. Her first book, Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation, was published in 2022 with Cambridge University Press in their Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare series and is the 2022 winner of the Heldt Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) and a recipient of the 2023 honorable mention for the Witold Pilecki International Book Award.

Assistant Director

Dr Jacob Stoil

Jacob is an Assistant Professor at the School of Advanced Military Studies, the US Army Command & General Staff College. His research focuses on indigenous force cooperation, the Second World War, and the Israeli military. .

SWWRG Graduate Fellow

Elizabeth Gardner

Liz is a PhD Candidate at Kings College, London in the Defence Studies department. Her thesis examines the Libyan Arab Force, an indigenous Senussi formation within the British Army in North Africa from 1940 to 1943. With an MA (Hons) in Archaeology from the University of Edinburgh in 2001, she has been a commercial archaeologist and illustrator for the last couple of decades and is an Adjunct Lecturer in History and Anthropology at Olympic College, near Seattle.

SWWRG Graduate Fellow

Zane Whitney

Zane is a PhD student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Kansas State University. His research focuses are Modern Europe, the Second World War, Global Military History, and Political Geography. His dissertation focuses on the No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando Unit that operated from 1942-1945. He is a documentary filmmaker, and his production company is KFI Films.

Membership

If you are interested in becoming a member of the Second World War Research Group, North America, please email us at swwresearchgroupna@gmail.com, giving your name, affiliation and research interests.

North America Regional Group

Bringing together new perspectives on the conflict;

Publicising recent and current research into the conflict and its global impact;

Encouraging collaboration in research across the scholarly community and academic disciplines;

Providing an organisational hub for conferences, seminars and other events relating to the conflict; and

Supporting members by serving as the first point of contact for key stakeholders and audiences interested in research and expertise on the Second World War.

Membership