Williamson Murray

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Williamson “Wick” Murray (1941-2023) attended the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts and graduated from Yale University in 1963 with honors in history before serving as an officer in the US Air Force for 5 years, including in Southeast Asia with the 314th Tactical Airlift Wing operating C-130s. He returned to Yale’s Department of History where he earned his PhD in military-diplomatic history in 1974 and taught there for two years. His doctoral dissertation resulted in his first book, The Change in the European Balance of Power, 1938-1939.

In 1977 Murray moved to Ohio State University where he taught military and diplomatic history, retiring in 1995; in 2012 he was made professor emeritus of history. He also taught at several universities and military academies, including the US Air War College, the US Military Academy, and the Naval War College. He was Centennial Visiting professor at the London School of Economics, Matthew C. Horner Professor of Military Theory at the Marine Corps University, Charles Lindbergh Chair at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, and Harold K. Johnson Professor of Military History at the Army War College.

Murray authored numerous books and articles on military history and strategic studies, and edited other projects. In 2019 the Society for Military History awarded Murray the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement in the field of military history.

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