John R. Milam (Ron)
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ron.milam@ttu.edu
University of Houston
U.S. History, the Vietnam War, Military History
Ron Milam is beginning his third year as a tenure-track professor at Texas Tech University. He teaches both halves of the U.S. Survey, the Vietnam War, and graduate and undergraduate courses in military history. His latest teaching interest is terrorism and insurgency, an interest which developed from his having been named an Academic Fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He also serves as the Academic Advisor for the annual Vietnam Center sponsored student trips to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.
Dr. Milam is the author of “Not a Gentleman’s War: Junior Officers in the Vietnam War,” which will be published in 2008. He also has written a chapter on the Vietnam War which will be published in the Companion to Military History by Blackwell Publishing. His next project is “The Siege of Phu Nhon: Montagnards and Americans in Battle,” which deals with one of the most significant battles in the late days of the Vietnam War.
Dr. Milam has taken on a new position in the newly established Institute for Modern Conflict, Diplomacy, and Reconciliation, where he is Interim Director of the Center for War and Diplomacy in the Post-Vietnam War Era. This center is responsible for developing archives for future research on those conflicts since the Vietnam War, with specific interest in the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Dr. Milam is a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, and collects and rides motorcycles.