Tyler Bamford joined the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy in 2019 as the inaugural Sherry and Alan Leventhal Research Fellow. His dissertation examines the Anglo-American alliance in World War I and World War II, and his current project explores the material culture of World War II. He was a 2011 Beinecke Scholar, and his research has been supported by the Army Heritage Center Foundation, the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, and the Society for Military History.
Tyler Bamford
Sherry and Alan Leventhal Research Fellow

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