Tyler Bamford was the inaugural Sherry and Alan Leventhal Research Fellow the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy from September 2019 to March 2021. 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
Former Sherry and Alan Leventhal Research Fellow

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