Andrew Bickford

Professor Bickford received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Rutgers University in 2002. From 2002-2004, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. His research focuses on war, militarization, the state, identity, memory, health, and technology in Germany and the United States. Dr. Bickford is the author of Fallen Elites: The Military Other in Post-Unification Germany, and his fieldwork in Germany with former East German army officers examined militarization policies, and how states “make” and “unmake” soldiers. Professor Bickford was a Fulbright Fellow at the Universität Potsdam and a Fellow at the Social Science Research Council Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has also received research grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, Rutgers University, and George Mason University. Dr. Bickford is currently a member of the editorial board of Critical Military Studies.