Dr. Christopher S. Stowe is Professor of Military History at MCU’s Command and Staff College and served as head of CSC’s War Studies Department from 2015-2020.

His publications include numerous essays and reviews in nineteenth-century American and military history. Recent works include chapters and articles in Corps Commanders in Blue: Union Major Generals in the Civil War (Louisiana State University Press, 2014), Civil War History (2015), and The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2021).

His first full-length book, George Gordon Meade: A Nineteenth-Century Life, is nearing completion for the Kent State University Press.

Professor Stowe served previously with the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia, McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and the University of Toledo.

He is the recipient of the Department of the Army Commander’s Award for Civilian Service in 2011, its Superior Civilian Service Award in 2014, Marine Corps University’s Dr. Elihu Rose Award for Teaching Excellence in 2023, and the MCU Command and Staff College Faculty Innovation Award in 2023.

He is a member of the Society for Military History, the Organization of American Historians, the Society for Historians of the Early Republic, the Society of Civil War Historians, and the Association of British American Nineteenth-Century Historians.