BIO

Alex J. Marino is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Civil-Military Relations in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College. His research focuses on the history of U.S.-Africa relations, particularly the role of society and technology in formulating American foreign policy. His dissertation, “The United States and Portuguese Angola: Space, Race, and the Cold War in Africa,” examines civil-military relations in the United States, Portugal, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola to understand why the United States fought and lost a proxy war against the Soviet Union in Angola in the 1970s and 1980s. He teaches Comparative Civil-Military Relations and the Africa Regional Studies Program and has advised Student Research Requirement papers on instability in the Sahel, the security implications of water reclamation projects on the Nile River, and Iran’s influence in the Middle East and North Africa. 

Marino’s scholarship on civil-military relations in the United States and Africa has included conference presentations, invited lectures, academic articles, and public engagement writings. He has published in English, Portuguese, and Dutch, including articles and chapters in print and in progress on a myriad of topics, such as the role of tourism in defense policy, sports diplomacy, and military engineering projects. His research has been funded by the Marjorie Blum Kovler Foundation, the JFK Library Foundation, the Eisenhower Foundation, the LBJ Foundation, the Gerald Ford Foundation, the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, the University of Arkansas Gender Studies Program, and the United States Army War College.

He is the co-founder and co-editor of the website Historifans, which publishes peer-reviewed articles on the intersection of history and popular fiction. Marino also serves as a curriculum development consultant for RELYANT Global in support of the Senegalese Institute of Defense. He previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College, an Instructor in the History Department at the University of Arkansas, and an affiliate-faculty member in the African and African American Studies Program, and the Gender Studies Program at the University of Arkansas. He has a Ph.D. and a M.A. in History from the University of Arkansas and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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