Jones Lecture Series
2017-18 - Antiquities in a Time of War: Iraq, 2003-2017
Monday, October 9, 2017, 7 p.m. - Grant Events Center, Salon 1
Dr. Wayne Bowen
Professor of History and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies
University of Central Florida
Dr. Wayne Bowen is an historian who has written extensively on the history of Spain, military history, and the Middle East. The topic of his lecture comes from his experience as an officer in the United States Army who served as a civil affairs officer for higher education and antiquities in the Iraq War. His responsibilities included the preservation of archaeological sites dating back to the Assyrian Empire. At present, he is writing a book on the Reformation in Spain.
Dr. Bowen is the author of
- Truman, Franco's Spain, and the Cold War. University of Missouri Press, 2017. Spain and the American Civil War, University of Missouri Press, 2011.
- The History of Saudi Arabia. Greenwood Press/ABC-Clio, 2008.
- Undoing Saddam: From Occupation to Sovereignty in Northern Iraq. Potomac Books/University of Nebraska, 2007.
- A Military History of Modern Spain. co-edited with Jose Alvarez. Praeger/ ABC-Clio, 2007.
- Spain during World War II. University of Missouri Press, 2006.
- Spaniards and Nazi Germany: Collaboration in the New Order. University of Missouri Press, 2000. (2001 Phi Alpha Theta Book Award)