Biography
Grace Anne Parker is a fourth-year PhD candidate studying inefficiencies in women’s military integration from 1948 to 1953, with a particular emphasis on the Korean War. Her research also encompasses the experiences women had with various veterans organizations in the decades after the Korean War. Grace Anne is fluent in French and has an intermediate level of Mandarin. She holds a master's degree from North Carolina State University in public history and hopes to get a job tying her love of military and public history together after she finishes her PhD.
Grace Anne loves to teach and has taught War and Peace and American Military Culture, and is passionate about serving her department. She is currently chairing the 29th annual James A. Barnes Conference, one of the largest and longest-running graduate student conferences in the region, which draws participants from across the nation and around the world. Before her time as conference chair, she was a member of the conference committee and treasurer. She is also a member of the Society for Military History. Last year, she presented on a panel titled Women in the Twentieth-Century US Army: Ambition, Frustration, Sacrifice alongside Molly Sampson and Kaitlyn Ross. This year, they continue to build upon that work and put together another panel for the 2024 Society for Military History Conference in Arlington, VA, titled The Irony of Efficiency: Servicewomen and the U.S. Military in the 20th Century. They are working towards creating an edited volume based around the papers featured in this panel.
Faculty Advisor: Gregory Urwin
Curriculum Vitae
Courses Taught
- American Military Culture; War and Peace