Research Interests

Ashley Vance is a PhD candidate in United States history. Her dissertation focuses on the US Army’s presence in Germany in the decades following World War II. Specifically, she examines how the military created a unique Cold War army in West Germany that was combat ready while carrying out a peacetime deployment. She also addresses the soldiers’ lived experience and how their perceptions and behavior influenced Army policy at the time.

Recent Positions

• Career Diversity Fellow, Department of History, Texas A&M University, 2020-2022
• Research Assistant, Center for Grand Strategy Visiting Research Fellow, Bush School of Government, Texas A&M University, 2021
• Research Assistant, UCAPAWA Digiting Mapping Project, University of Mississippi, 2021
• Editorial Intern, Texas A&M University Press, 2020
• Committee Member, History Graduate Student Organization, 2020-2021
• Committee Member, Department of History Climate, Inclusion, and Diversity Committee, 2019-2020
• Co-convener, War, Violence, and Society Working Group, 2019-2021
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University, 2018-2020