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University of Illinois Department of History

Faculty and Staff

Date: October 1, 2007

JOHN A. LYNN

 

Department of History                             910 West Hill  
309 Gregory Hall                                    Champaign, IL 61821
University of Illinois                                (217) 356-6336
810 South Wright St.                               FAX  (217) 356-6348
Urbana, Illinois  61801
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      E-mail:   johnlynn@uiuc.edu

      Web:      http://www.history.uiuc.edu/fac_dir/lynn_dir/lynn.html

EDUCATION

University of California at Los Angeles                                Ph.D.               3/73

University of California at Davis                                         M.A.                3/67

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign                         A.B.                 8/64

POSITIONS HELD

Professor of History                           University of Illinois at U-C               8/91-present

Associate Professor of History           University of Illinois at U-C               8/83-8/91

Assistant Professor of History            University of Illinois at U-C               8/78-8/83

Assistant Professor of History            University of Maine, Orono              9/73-5/77

Visiting Asst. Prof. of History            Indiana University, Bloomington
8/72-6/73

Adjunct Professor of History             The Ohio State University
3/98-present

Faculty and Executive Committee    Program in Arms Control,
8/81-present                                  Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois (ACDIS)      

Oppenheimer Chair of                      Marine Corps University,                  8/94-7/95

Warfighting Strategy                         Quantico, VA

Chair, Military Education Council    University of Illinois                           8/01-pres.

(The MEC is the faculty oversight body in charge of ROTC programs.)

ORDERS RECEIVED

Palmes Académiques at the rank of Chevalier, awarded by the French government in 2004.

(The order of the Palmes Académiques was established by Napoleon in 1808.  It is one of the five ministerial orders maintained by the French government.)

Wissam Al Alaoui at the rank of commander, awarded by His Majesty Mohammed VI of Morocco in 2006.

(The civil and military order of Wissam Al Alaoui, founded in 1913, is the oldest awarded by the Moroccan monarchy.)

SCHOLARLY  PUBLICATIONS:  BOOKS

Books, authored —

1)  Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe. To be published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.2)  Battle: A History of Combat and Culture (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003), Pp. xxv, 399.   Revised and expanded paperback edition, 2004.

[Winner of 2004 Phi Alpha Theta Book Prize;

Awarded prize as 2003 Finalist in Adult Non-Fiction by Society of Midland Authors;

The September 2005 issue of The International History Review was devoted to a discussion of Battle.]

A further revised edition is available in French as De la guerre : Une histoire du combat des origines à nos jours (Paris: Tallandier, 2006), and a Korean edition, published by Chungaram Media also appeared in 2006.

3)  The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667-1714 (London: Longman, Ltd., 1999), Pp. xiii, 421. 

[Wars of Louis XIV is scheduled to appear in a revised French edition, published by Perrin in 2007.]

4)  Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610-1715 (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1997; second printing, with corrections, 1998, paperback edition published 2006), Pp. xvii, 651.

[Winner of 1998 Phi Alpha Theta Book Prize.]

5)  The Bayonets of the Republic:  Motivation and Tactics in the Army of  Revolutionary France, 1791-94, revised edition (Boulder, CO:  Westview Press, 1996; first edition published by the University of Illinois Press in 1984), Pp. xii, 356.  

[Winner of 1985 Phi Alpha Theta Book Prize.]

6)  The French Wars 1667-1714: The Sun King at War (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2002).  Pp. 95.

7)  (with George Satterfield) A Guide to Sources in Early Modern European Military History in Midwestern Research Libraries, 2nd ed.(Urbana, Illinois:  Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, 1994) [First edition, 1991].  Pp. ix, 337. 

Now available on line at – http://www.history.uiuc.edu/fac_dir/lynn_dir/guide/contents.html

Books, edited —

8)  (edited)  ACTA of the XXVIIIth Congress of the International Commission of Military History (Chicago:  McCormack Foundation, August 2003).

9)  (edited) Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present  (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1993).  Pp. xii, 326.

[Listed on the February 16, 2005 USMC Commandant’s Reading List for colonels and general officers]

10)  (edited) The Tools of War: Ideas, Instruments, and Institutions of Warfare, 1445-1871 (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1990).  Pp. xii, 262.

Book projects in progress —

11)  Camps, Comrades, and Combat:  The Life of the Common Soldier in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1789.  (Under contract with Longman, Ltd., to be completed 2007).

12)  (edited) Non-Western Ways of War, 5 vols. (Under contract with Praeger, to be completed in 2010).

Books, completed but not yet published —

13)  (editor), Albert’s War by Albert Hoxie. 

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, PAPERS, AND ENTRIES

Academic articles, chapters, and published papers —

1)  “Breaching the Walls of Academe: The Purposes, Problems, and Prospects of Military History,” Academic Questions (November 2007).

2)  “Revisiting the Great Fact of War and Bourbon Absolutism: The Growth of the French Army during the Grand siècle” in Guerra y sociedad en la monarchia hispanica: Política, estrategia y cultura en la Europa moderna (1500-1700), Enrique Garcia Hernán and Davide Maffi, eds. (Madrid: 2006), vol. 1, pp. 49-74.

3)  “Does Napoleon Really Have Much to Teach Us?” Land and Sea Power in the Age of the Battle of Trafalgar, ACTA of the XXXIst Congress of the International Commission of Military History (Madrid: 2006), pp. 599-608.

4)  “Discourse, Reality, and the Culture of Combat,” The International History Review 27, no. 3 (September 2005), pp. 475-80.  [This issue was devoted to a number of commentaries on John A. Lynn, Battle:  A History of Combat and Culture.]

5)  “L’armée et l’évolution économique,” Actes, XXXe Congrès International d’Histoire Militaire:  Aspects économiques de la défense à travers les grands conflits mondiaux (Rabat, Morocco: 2005), pp. 592-594.

6) “Seeing War as We Want It to Be:  An Obstacle to Learning the Right Lessons?,” in Lessons Learned or Not Learned:  Military Responses to Success and Failure, Scot Robertson, ed.  (forthcoming).

7)  “Les enjeux d’une approche culturelle de l’histoire militaire,” in Séminaires de D.E.A. “Evolution des mondes modernes,” Année 2003-2004, Université Paris-Sorbonne, pp. 1-12.

8)  “La guerre entre réalité et illusion:  comment voir la défaite en face?,” in Séminaires de D.E.A. “Evolution des mondes modernes,” Année 2003-2004, Université Paris-Sorbonne, pp. 13-26.

9)  “L’évolution du style des armées dans l’Occident moderne, 800-2000,” in La science et la guerre: l’impact de la technologie militaire. (Canadian Armed Forces: 2004).  (French translation of “The Evolution of Army Style in the Modern West.”

10)  “A View from Above:  Watersheds in the Evolution of War and Military Institutions during the Twentieth Century,” in War in the Twentieth Century: Reflections at Century’s End, Michael Hennessy and B.J.C. McKercher, eds. (Praeger: Westport, CT, 2003).

11)  “Le discours et la realité de la guerre: un modèle culturel,” in Combattre, Gouverner, Ecrire: Etudes réunies en l’honneur de Jean Chagniot, Commission française d’histoire militaire, ed. (Paris: Economica, 2003), pp. 487-502.

12)  “The Heart of the Sepoy: The Adoption and Adaptation of European Military Practice in South Asia, 1740-1805,” in The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas, Emily O. Goldman and Leslie C. Eliason, eds. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), pp. 33-62.

13)  “A Brutal Necessity?: The Devastation of the Palatinate, 1688-1689,” in Civilians in the Path of War, Mark Grimsley and Clifford Rogers, ed. (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), pp. 79-110.

14)  “Guerre et culture, ‘Lumières’ et Romanticisme dans la pensée militaire,” in La plume et le sabre, eds. Michel Biard, Annie Crépin, and Bernard Gainot (Paris: Sorbonne, 2002), pp. 327-344.  

15)  “The Treatment of Military Subjects in Diderot’s Encyclopédie,” Journal of Military History 65, no. 1 (January 2001), pp. 131-65.

16)  “Forging the Western Army in Seventeenth-Century France,” in The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050, Williamson Murray and McGregor Knox, eds. (Cambridge University Press: 2001), pp. 35-56.

This book was published in Japanese in 2004.

17)  “Reflections on the History and Theory of Military Innovation and Diffusion,” in Bridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Study of Interantional Relations, Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman, eds. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), pp.359-382.

18)  “International Rivalry and Warfare, 1700-1815,” in The Short Oxford History of Europe: Eighteenth-Century Europe, T.C.W. Blanning, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 178-217.

19)  “Evolution de l’armée du roi,1659-1672” Histoire, Economie et Société 19, no. 4 (4e trimestre 2000), pp. 481-95.

20)  “Napoleonic Warfare, 1805-1807: Model or Special Case?,” in Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850: Selected Papers 1998, eds. Kyle Eidahl and Donald Horward (Tallahassee, Florida: 1998), pp. 97-105.

21)  “The Embattled Future of Academic Military History,” Journal of Military History 61, no. 4 (October 1997), pp. 777-89.

22)  “War, Military, Forces, and the Formation of French Absolutism, 1635-1659,” in Bellum Tricennale: The Thirty Years’ War (Prague: 1997), pp. 65-76.

23)  “The Evolution of Army Style in the Modern West, 800-2000,” International History Review 18, no. 3 (August 1996), pp. 505-45.  Translated into French as L’évolution du style des armées dans l’Occident moderne, 800-2000,” in La science et la guerre: l’impact de la technologie militaire. (Canadian Armed Forces: 2004).

24 & 25)  Chapters 10 and 11, Cambridge Illustrated History of Western Warfare, Geoffrey Parker, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 164-213.

26)  Chapter 6, “The Transformation of Warfare in the Age of the French Revolution,” in Warfare in the Western World: Military Operations from 1600 to 1871, by Robert Doughty, Ira Gruber, Flint, Grimsley, Herring, Horward, Lynn, and Murray (New York: D.C. Heath, 1995), pp. 173-194.

27 & 28)  Reprints of “Recalculating French Army Growth During the Grand siècle, 1610-1715,” French  Historical  Studies, fall 1994, and “The trace italienne and the Growth of Armies: the French Case,” Journal of Military  History, July 1991, in The Military Revolution Debate, Clifford Rogers, ed. (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995), pp. 117-47, 169-99.

29)  “Recalculating French Army Growth During the Grand siècle, 1610-1715,” French Historical Studies 18, no. 4 (Fall 1994), pp. 881-906.

30)  “A Quest for Glory:  The Formation of Strategy under Louis XIV, 1661-1715,” in The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War, Williamson Murray, MacGregor Knox, and Alvin Bernstein, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 178-204.

31)  “How War Fed War:  The Tax of Violence and Contributions during the Grand Siècle,” Journal of Modern History 65, no. 2 (June 1993), pp. 286-310.

32)  “The History of Logistics and Supplying War,” in Feeding Mars (1993), John A. Lynn, ed., pp. 9-27.

33)  “Food, Funds, and Fortresses:  Resource Mobilization and Positional Warfare in the Campaigns of Louis XIV,” in Feeding Mars (1993), John A. Lynn, ed., pp. 137-159.

34)  “The trace italienne and the Growth of Armies: the French Case,” Journal of Military History, July 1991, pp. 297-330.

35)  “Clio in Arms: The Role of the Military Variable in Shaping History,” Journal of Military History, January 1991, pp. 83-95.

36)  “Contributions:  A Missing Link in the Evolution of War Finance under Louis XIV,” in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, vol. 18, ed. Gordon Bond (Auburn, Alabama: 1991), pp. 130-35.

37)  “The Pattern of Army Growth, 1445-1945,” in Tools of War (1990), John A. Lynn, ed., pp. 1-27.

38)  “En avant!  The Origins of the Revolutionary Attack,” in Tools of War (1990), John A. Lynn, ed., pp. 154-176.

39)  “Towards an Army of Honor: The Moral Evolution of the French Army 1789-1815,” French Historical Studies 16, no. 1 (Spring 1989), pp. 152-73, 179-82.  (This was the “Forum” for the spring issue, meaning that the article was followed by a critique by Owen Connelly, to which I then responded.)

40)  “A Conflict of Principles:  The Army of the Revolution and the Army of the Empire,” in Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe (Gainesville, Florida: 1989), pp. 507-19. 

41)  “Tactical Evolution in the French Army, 1560-1660,” French Historical Studies, fall 1985, pp. 176-191.

42)  “An Aspect of the Political Education of the French Army: The Distribution of Political Journals 1793-1794,” in Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe (Gainesville, Florida: 1984), pp. 75-90.

43)  “The Growth of the French Army during the Seventeenth Century,” Armed Forces and Society, summer 1980, pp. 568-85.

44)  “Military History in the Classroom: A Strategy for Enrollments,” Military Affairs, December 1979, pp. 202-3.

45)  “Self-Image and Weaponry: The French Fascination with the Pike, 1724-1794,” in Colloquium on Military History: Proceedings, ed., Charles Balesi (Chicago: 1979), pp. 21-36.

46)  “The Pattern of French Military Reform, 1750-1790,” at the at the February 1974 Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850 and published in the Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe  (Gainesville, Florida: 1978), pp. 113-128.

47)  “French Opinion and the Military Resurrection of the Pike,” Military Affairs, February 1977, pp. 1-7.

48)  “Reconstructing a Maine Lumber Camp of 1900: The Diorama as a Historical Medium,” Journal of Forest History, October 1976, pp. 191-202.

49)  “The Publications of the Section Historique, 1899-1915,” Military Affairs, April 1973, pp. 56-59.

50)  “Esquisse sur la tactique de l’infanterie,” Annales historiques de la Révolution française, November-December, 1972, pp. 537-66.

Other articles, chapters, and entries —

51)  “Terrorism in History,” Military History, forthcoming.

52)  “Partners in Pillage:  Women on Campaign, 1500-1650,” to be published in the October 2007 issue of Military History.

53)  “Patterns of Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency,” in Military Review (July/August 2005), pp. 22-27. 

54)  “Las Tendencias de la Insurgencia y Contrainsurgencia,” in Military Review, Hispano-americana, Revista profesional del ejército de EE. UU.  (November/December 2005), pp. 34-40.  (Spanish edition of #50.)

55)  “Os Modelos de Insurreição e de Contra-Insurreição,” Military Review, Brazilian Edition (November/December 2005), pp. 36-42.  (Portuguese edition of #50.)

56)  “داضلما ليدبلاو نايصعلاةيكولسو طانمأ,” in Military Review, Arabic, 2nd Edition (2006), pp. 31-43.  (Arabic edition of #50.)

57)  “What War Should Be, What War Really Is,” in Turning Victory Into Success:  Military Operations After the Campaign, ed. Brian M. De Toy (Fort Leavenworth, KS:  Combat Studies Institute Press, 2005), pp. 43-57.

58)  “Seeing War as We Want It to Be:  An Obstacle to Learning the Right Lessons?,” in NIDS Military History Studies Annual, no. 8 (March 2005), pp. 71-91.  [NIDS is the National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo, Japan].

59)  “Soul of the Sepoy,” MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History, 15, no. 3 (Winter 2005), pp. 46-55.

60)  “Ideals of Battle in an Age of Elegance,” MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History, 15, no. 3 (Winter 2003), pp. 34-45.

61)  Two entries in Amazons to Fighter Pilots A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women, ed. Reina Pennington (Westport, CT:  Greenwood, 2003).

62)  “The Tapissier de Notre Dame,” MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History, 13, no. 3 (spring 2001), pp. 76-85.

63)  Eight entries for the Oxford Companion to Military History, ed. Richard Holmes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

64)  Reprint of “Disillusion” from Imagining the Twentieth Century, eds. Charles C. Steward and Peter Fritzsche, in America West Airlines Magazine, November 1998, pp. 46 & 48.

65)  Three entries in Imagining the Twentieth Century, eds. Charles C. Steward and Peter Fritzsche (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997).

66)  “War of Annihilation, War of Attrition, and War of Legitimacy: A Neo-Clausewitzian Approach to Twentieth-Century Conflicts,” Marine Corps Gazette 80, no. 10 (October 1996), pp. 64-71.

67)  “The Strange Case of the Maiden Soldier of Picardy,” in The Experience of War, Robert Cowley, ed. (New York: 1992), pp. 122-26.  (reprinted from MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of  Military History.)

68)  Eighteen entries in The Reader’s Companion to Military History, eds. Robert Cowley and Geoffrey Parker (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1996).

69)  “The Sun King’s Star Wars,” MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History 7, no. 4 (summer 1995), pp. 88-97.

70)  Three entries in The Historical Dictionary of the War of the Spanish Succession, eds. Linda Frey and Marcia Frey (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995), pp. 125-26, 237-38, 458-60.

71)  “Valmy,” MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History 5, no. 1 (autumn 1992), pp. 88-97.

72)  “Soldiers on the Rampage,” MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History 3, no. 2 (winter 1991), pp. 92-101.

73)  “The Strange Case of the Maiden Soldier of Picardy,” MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History 2, no. 3 (spring 1990), pp. 54-56.  (Reprinted in The Experience of War, ed. Robert Cowley (New York: 1992).

74)  “Louis XIV and the Fallacies of Absolute Security,” Swords and Ploughshares,  October, 1989, pp. 5-7.

75)  “The Sans-Culotte Solution,” MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History, 1, no. 4 (summer 1989), pp. 76-87.

76)  “Vauban,” MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History 1, no. 2 (winter 1989), pp. 50-61.

77)  “Learning from the Last War: The New Military Critique of the Vietnam Conflict,” Swords and Ploughshares, October 1988, pp. 11-13.

78)  “World War I and World War II as Historical Metaphor,” Swords and Ploughshares, March 1987, pp. 4-6.

79)  “On Military History,” Swords and Ploughshares, March 1987, pp. 10-13.

80)  Ten entries in A Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799, 2 vols.,  Samuel F. Scott and Barry Rothaus, eds. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985).

81)  “French Armor, 1940,” Military Review, December, 1967, pp. 78-84.

RECENT KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

“Is there a Genre of Military History?,” at the bi-annual meeting of the Australian Historical Association, July 7, 2006.

“Where is the Western Way of War?,” keynote at “What’s on Our Minds: Critical Problems in Military History,” the 2004 meeting of the Society for Military History, Washington, DC, May 21, 2004.

“Seeing War as We Want It to Be:  An Obstacle to Learning the Right Lessons?,” keynote at “Lessons Learned or Not Learned: Military Responses to Success and Failure,” held at the Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, March 20-21, 2003.

“Minding the History of War,” keynote at “Military Culture in Imperial China,” held by University of Cantebury, Christchurch, NZ, January 10-12, 2003.

TEACHING HONORS RECEIVED

Queen Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching from the Department of History, 2005.

Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2001.

Conferred by the Provost of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2000-2001.

Conferred by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois.

Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001.

Conferred by the Humanities Council, University of Illinois.

Listing on the University of Illinois “Incomplete List of Teachers Rated Excellent by their Students.”*

spring semester 1996; fall semester 1997, spring semester 1998, fall semester 1999, spring semester 2000 (for fall 2000), spring semester 2000 (for spring 2000), spring semester 2001, fall semester 2001, spring semester 2003, fall semester 2003, spring semester 2004, spring semester 2005, spring semester 2007.

*The list is termed “incomplete” because the system is voluntary for tenured faculty, so someone might teach well but not choose to be evaluated.

VISITING  LECTURES

Lectures given/seminars conducted at U.S. universities —

Lectures given at the following U.S. academic venues:  Yale University; Ohio State University; University of Minnesota; University of the South; Triangle Universities Security Seminar, Chapel Hill, NC.

Lectures given/seminars conducted at foreign universities —

Lectures given at the following European academic venues:  Université de Paris, I; Université de Paris, IV; Université de Montpellier, III; Cambridge University; University of St Andrews; University of Aberdeen; University of Leeds; University of Exeter.

Lectures given/seminars conducted with the U. S. military —

USMC Command and Staff College, Quantico; USMC War College, Quantico; USMC School of Advanced Warfighting, Quantico; USMC Amphibious Warfare School, Quantico; USMC Communications Officers School, Quantico; USMC The Basic School, Quantico; Various USMC bases in California and on the East Coast; US Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, California; US Army Combat Studies Institute, Ft. Leavenworth; U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth; National War College, Washington, DC; United States Military Academy, West Point.

Lectures given/seminars conducted with the foreign military institutions —

Commandement de la doctrine et de l'enseignement militaire supérieur, Paris; Centre d’Etudes d’Histoire de la Défense, Vincennes; National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo, Japan; Royal Dutch Society for Military Studies, The Hague; Royal Military College of Canada; Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

OFFICES AND BOARDS

History Subcommittee, Defense Coordination Committee for Morocco

Member, 2005-present.

(This committee coordinates activities and relations between the United States government and the Kingdom of Morocco.)

Offices held in the United States Commission on Military History —

President, United States Commission on Military History, 2003-2007.
Vice-President, United States Commission on Military History, 2002-2003.
Trustee, United States Commission on Military History, 1999-2002.
Chair, Bibliographical Committee, United States Commission on Military History, and U.S. Representative, Bibliographical Committee, International Committee on Military History, 2000-2003.

Offices held in the Society for Military History —
Vice-President, Society for Military History, 2005-2007.
Trustee, Society for Military History, 2001-2005.
Midwest Regional Coordinator, Society for Military History, 1989-1996.

Offices held in Other Organizations —
Chair, Midwest Consortium on Military History, 1987-1996.

Membership on Editorial Boards —
Past or current membership on editorial boards for the following publications: International  History Review; Journal of Military History; War and History; Minerva: Women and War; MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History; Military Affairs.