Research Interests

Tristan Krause is a PhD student in the Graduate History Program at Texas A&M University. His broad research interests include 20th century U.S. military history, conflict archaeology, and Holocaust memory. His Master’s Thesis examines how American efforts to identify and repatriate the remains of missing in action (MIA) military personnel in Europe after World War II shaded into the encounter with Nazi persecutions. Specifically, his project analyzes the cooperation between the American Graves Registration Command and the International Tracing Service from 1945-1950.

Tristan is also a practitioner of MIA recovery operations. During the summers, Tristan works for two Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) academic partners. To date, Tristan has deployed with the University of Wisconsin MIA Recovery and Identification Project and the Cranfield Recovery and Identification of Conflict Casualties program to archaeological digs in Italy, France, Belgium, and Germany. 

Before joining Texas A&M, Tristan graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018 and worked in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Legislative Aide.