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Dr. Beau Cleland

Ph.D.
Pronouns: he/him

Positions

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Arts, Department of History

Research Fellow

Faculty of Arts, Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

Contact information

Email

beau.cleland@ucalgary.ca

Web presence

Personal Website

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-3984

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Funding

Research partners

I am looking for research partners in non-state violence

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy History, University of Calgary,

Master of Arts International Relations, Johns Hopkins University,

Bachelor of Science History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology,

Biography

Dr. Beau Cleland is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Calgary. Before turning to academia, he served as an officer in the United States Army, with combat service in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he also completed a master’s in Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He has published several articles and chapters, most recently on blockade running in the Bahamas for the Journal of Southern History. His first book, entitled Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy, is in press with the University of Georgia Press’s UnCivil Wars series.

Dr. Beau Cleland is currently accepting inquiries for MA students.

Research

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Human dynamics in a changing world

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
HTST 452 Atlantic Piracy, 1500-1865 Fall 2024
HTST 361 The United States Since 1877 Winter 2023, Fall 2024
HTST 204 The World, 1500-1800 Winter 2023, 2024
HTST 535 Special Topics in American History - American Empire, 1865-2001 Winter 2024, Winter 2025
HTST 202 Introduction to Military History Winter 2025
HTST 485 World War 2 Summer 2015

Projects

Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy, UnCivil Wars Series (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2025) In press.

Awards

  • Fellow, Summer Seminar in Military History, Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, National World War II Museum. 2023
  • Eliza Struve and Isabel Sproul Hensel Fellowship,
  • J. Michael Barrett Almon Fellowship,
  • Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship, The Bradley Foundation.
  • Bronze Star Medal, United States Armed Forces.
  • U.S. Army Combat Action Badge, United States Armed Forces.
  • Top Honor Graduate, US Army Field Artillery Officer Basic Course. 2004
  • Georgia Tech President’s Scholar, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Publications

  • "'Back at Bragg': Civil War Memory and the U.S. Army". Andrew Slap and Hilary Green, eds.. The Civil War and the Summer of 2020 (New York: Fordham University Press, 2024). (2024)
  • “’The pirates and their abettors in this province’: Sovereignty, Violence, and Confederate Operations in Britain’s Atlantic Colonies, 1863-1865,”. Continent in Crisis: The U.S. Civil War in North America (Fordham University Press, 2023). (2023)