Dr. Stowe is Professor of Military History and Co-Director of the Joint and Combined Warfighting Course at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College. He previously served as head of the War Studies Department from 2015 to 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 Kent State University Press.
Professor Stowe previously served at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Lee, 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 (2011); the Department of the Army Superior Civilian Service Award (2014); Marine Corps University's Dr. Elihu Rose Award for Teaching Excellence (2023); the MCU Command and Staff College Faculty Innovation Award (2023); and the Department of the Navy Civilian Service Award (2025).
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.