In honor of Veterans Month, the History Department invites you to join us for Part 2 of a special alumni speaker & conversation series highlighting the experiences of alumni Veteran, Walter Napier.

Walter Napier is currently employed as the Deputy Command Historian for the US Army’s Combined Arms Center and Ft. Leavenworth. Napier has worked on a number of national and international projects focused on War and Society, Veterans History, US History, The Age of Revolution, World War I, and Ancient History. He has been a Wing Historian for the 514th Air Mobility Wing, researcher, writer and editor for the Veterans Legacy Program working in Florida and France, an Oral Historian for the Veterans History Project focused on Central Florida Veterans, and an Archeological Research Assistant in Turkey. Prior to Napier’s academic pursuits, he served in the US Army as an Infantry team leader. Napier deployed three different times, twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan.