Jason Dawsey, PhD, is ASU WWII Studies Consultant in the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. Dawsey received his PhD in modern European history at the University of Chicago in 2013 and worked in JCISWD as Research Historian between 2019 and 2023. He teaches in the online master's degree program conducted by The National WWII Museum in partnership with Arizona State University and contributes to the Museum's website and public programming on anti-Nazi resistance movements and the Holocaust.
Jason Dawsey, PhD
ASU WWII Studies Consultant
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