Joseph Slaughter, LCDR, USN
Early American, Global, and Naval History
Junior Permanent Military Professor
304 Sampson Hall, U.S. Naval Academy · jslaught@usna.edu
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Ph.D. student • 2012-pres • University of Maryland, College Park • History (United States)
M.A. • 2011 • Naval War College • National Security and Strategic Studies (Africa)
M.A. • 2006 • University of Maryland, College Park • History (United States)
B. S. • 1999 • United States Naval Academy • History
RESEARCH
University of Maryland M.A. thesis explores the implications of a navy for the new United States and searches for the strategic visions of the Founders and what role they thought a naval force should play in a republican nation. It offers a more complex and accurate picture of the naval policy debates than what is traditionally described by the binary “navalist vs. antinavalist” thesis that currently dominates the historiography. Additionally, my study strives to incorporate the important social, economic, and political contexts to the overall history of the naval debates from 1783-1812, while also including the often overlooked popular voice.
Ph.D. research centers on the early American political economy, particularly focused on the intersection of religion and capitalism during the colonial, revolutionary, and early national periods of American history. Additionally, this work crosses over into the fields of maritime, economic, religious, and social history.
ACADEMIC HONORS
Samuel Eliot Morrison Scholarship • Naval Historical Center • 2006-2007
Member, Phi Alpha Theta
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
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Sep, 2007 |
• Naval History Symposium • US Naval Academy • Presented paper entitled, “Navy in the New Republic, 1783-1812” |
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Sep, 2011 |
• Naval History Symposium • US Naval Academy • Panel Commentator, “The American Navy and the Civilian World” |
TEACHING/CURRICULUM EXPERIENCE
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2006-2008 |
• Western Civilization: Civilization and the Atlantic Community (US Naval Academy) • World/Western Civilization: The West and the Word (US Naval Academy) • Course coordinator of core history course taught to all students at US Naval Academy; led the transition from traditional Western Civilization course to a completely new, globalized course |
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2010-pres |
• World/Western Civilization: The West and the Word and The West in Global Context (US Naval Academy) • American Naval History • History Department Senior Academic Advisor |
MILITARY EXPERIENCE
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1999 – 2001 |
• Student Naval Aviator, Navy Flight School (Pensacola, FL/Corpus Christi, TX/Meridian, MS) • Winged as Naval Aviator, June 22, 2001 |
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2001 - 2002 |
• Replacement Pilot, VAW-120 (Norfolk, VA) |
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2002 – 2005 |
• Fleet Pilot/Detachment Administrative Officer, VRC-40 (Norfolk, VA) • Two deployments with USS Harry S. Truman to Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf in support of Operations ENDURING and IRAQI FREEDOM |
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2005 – 2006 |
• Graduate Student, University of Maryland (College Park) |
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2006 – 2008 |
• Instructor, History Department, US Naval Academy |
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2008 – 2010 |
• Catapult & Arresting Gear Officer, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower • Two deployments to North Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf in support of Operations ENDURING and IRAQI FREEDOM |
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2010 – 2011 |
• Master Instructor, History Department, US Naval Academy |
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2011 – pres |
• Junior Permanent Military Professor, History Department, USNA |
