Darrell Reader

Thesis title: "Weaponized Nature: How the Environment Saved the Allies at Bastogne, December 16 to 23, 1944"

Specialty Areas: 20th Century warfare, the European Theater during the Second World War, the American Revolution.

I am a second year PhD student focusing on military history, particularly modern warfare in America and Europe. I also study the American founding and American Revolution. I earned a BA in political science at Northwestern Oklahoma University and a law degree at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. After practicing law I returned to school to earn an MA and PhD. My Master's Thesis focused on the ways that environmental helped the defending Allies and influenced the outcome of the Battle of the Bulge. My wife and I are diehard OU football fans and love to travel. She especially enjoys when I take her to obscure military sites on our trips to "look at the terrain."

During my undergraduate career I was on the Dean's and President's honor rolls and in law school I was on the Dean's List. While at UNT I have worked as a Teaching Assistant for four years and a Teaching Fellow for one year teaching American History 2610. I also helped to build and publish UNT's online museum "Blowout: A Community's Engagement with Fracking in Denton, TX."