Kara Dixon Vuic, Ph.D.

• Articles & Essays
  • “Grand Narratives and Gendered Wars and Societies,” War and Society 42, no. 1 (February 2023): 82-89.
  • “Wartime Nursing and Power,” in The Routledge Handbook on the Global History of Nursing, eds. Patricia D’Antonio, Julie Fairman, Jean Whelan (Oxford: Routledge, 2013), 22-34
  • “Where the Boys Are: Militarization, Sexuality, and Red Cross Donut Dollies,” in Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Ana Carden-Coyne, Gender and History Series (Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 138-53
  • “‘I’m afraid we’re going to have to just change our ways:’ Marriage, Motherhood, and Pregnancy in the Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War,” Signs 32:4 (Summer 2007): 997-1022
• Book Chapters & Reviews
  • “Gender,” in The All-Volunteer Force: Fifty Years of History, Impacts, Challenges, and Implications, ed. William A. Taylor (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023), 101-21.
  • “A Girl in Every Port? The U.S. Military and Prostitution in the Twentieth Century,” in The Military and the Market, edited by Jennifer Middlestadt and Mark Wilson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), 87-104.
  • “She Who Has Borne the Battle: Vietnam Veterans of America’s Women’s Project,” in Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in American History, edited by John Kinder and Jason Higgins (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022), 143-58
  • “Reproduction in Combat Boots,” in Managing Sex in the U.S. Military: Gender, Identity, and Behavior, co-edited by Beth Bailey, Alesha Doan, Shannon Portillo, and Kara Dixon Vuic (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022), 119-40
  • “A Girl in Every Port? The U.S. Military and Prostitution in the Twentieth Century,” in The Military and the Market, edited by Jennifer Middlestadt and Mark Wilson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), 87-104
  • “Gender and the Military,” in At War: Militarism and U.S. Culture in the 20^th Century and Beyond, eds. Ed Martini and David Kieran (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018), 195-216.
  • “Integrating Women and Planning Military Families since World War II,” in Integrating the U.S. Military: African Americans, Women, and Gays since World War II, eds. Heather M. Stur and Douglas Bristol (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), 167-197
• Edited Volumes
  • “Managing Sex in the U.S. Military: Gender, Identity, and Behavior,” co-edited with Beth Bailey, Alesha Doan, and Shannon Portillo (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022)
  • editor, “The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military,” Routledge, New York, NY, 2018
• Books
  • “The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines,” (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2019)
  • “Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War,”  Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2010

Invited lectures at the National Archives, National WWI Museum and Memorial, National World War II Museum, FDR Presidential Library, Gilder Lehrman Institute, Politics and Prose bookstore, Army Nurse Corps Association Convention, Old Red History Museum in Dallas, the Army Heritage and Education Center, the Canadian War Museum, New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Museum, and the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library

Conference presentations: at the Society for Military History, Organization of American Historians, and American Historical Association annual conferences, the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities, and various others

Podcasts:

• “The Girls Next Door: How Serving Coffee and Donuts in World War I Led to Women Gaining the Right to Vote,” Our American Stories podcast, May 12, 2023
• “Special Episode on the Military and the Market,” Who Makes Cents? A History of Capitalism Podcast, March 7, 2023
• Military Historians Are People Too podcast hosted by Bill Allison and Brian K. Feltman, Season 1, Episode 19, March 29, 2022
• “Women and the American Way of War,” Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast hosted by Erik Loomis, June 15, 2021
• The Gander and the Goose: Women and Selective Service Registration, The War Room Podcast hosted by Jacqueline Whitt, April 20, 2021
• Two Authors Under the Same Roof (On Writing), The War Room Podcast hosted by Michael Neiberg, September 22, 2020
• “All Sides Weekend: Bob Hope and the USO,” WOSU Radio, January 31, 2020
• “Girls Next Door”—Women as Emotional Laborers on the Front Lines, The War Room Podcast hosted by Jacqueline Whitt, August 16, 2019.
• Women Couldn’t Fight (But Went to War Anyway), KERA’s Think, February 7, 2019

• Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor, TCU AddRan College of Liberal Arts (2023)
• Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History, National Archives Foundation (2021)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (2021)
• Captain Richard Lukaszewicz Memorial Book Award, U.S. Military History Group (2020)
• Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award, American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch (2020)
• John K. Hulston Scholarship, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum (2020)
• Schlesinger Library Research Grant, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University (2020)
• Roosevelt Institute Research Grant, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library (2020)
• Lavinia L. Dock Book Award (2010)
• Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (2011-2012)

• Organization of American Historians
• American Historical Association
• Society for Military History
• Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
• Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society

• Department of the Army Historical Advisory Subcommittee (2023-present)
• Series Co-editor, "Military, War, and Society in Modern American History," Cambridge University Press (2023-present)
• Series Co-editor, “Studies in War, Society, and the Military,” University of Nebraska Press (2014-2023)
• Trustee, Society for Military History (2019-2023)
• Advisory Board for the Vietnam Women’s Memorial to Eastern National (2015 to present)
• Advisory Board, The American Soldier in World War II project, Virginia Tech University (2016-present)
• Editorial Board, Home Front Studies (2021-present)
• Associate Director, National World War II Museum-Society for Military History Summer Seminar in Military History (2022)