Dr. Robert W. Hutchinson is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Security Studies at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), Maxwell AFB, Alabama. SAASS is a selective one-year graduate school for strategists with 17 terminally credentialed faculty and 45 Air Force, Department of Defense, and international students. As a professor, he is responsible for creating warrior-scholars who have a superior ability to develop, evaluate, and employ airpower as a component of military force in support of national objectives.
He received his PhD in modern European history from the University of Maryland in 2016, and before joining SAASS in 2020 held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and at the US Naval War College in Newport,
Rhode Island. His research focuses on 20th century European political and military history, intelligence studies, and Holocaust and genocide studies. He is the author of After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals (Yale University Press, 2022) and German Foreign Intelligence from Hitler’s War to the Cold War: Flawed Assumptions and Faulty Analysis (University Press of Kansas, 2019).
At SAASS, he teaches courses in twentieth century air power history, military theory, and irregular warfare.
EDUCATION
2008, Bachelor of Arts, History, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2016, Doctor of Philosophy, Modern European History, The University of Maryland, College Park, MD
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
2013 Professor Russell F. Weigley Award in Military History, Army Heritage Center Foundation
2013 Norman Raab Research Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
2020 German Historical Institute Research Fellowship
2024 Robert E. Dalton Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Foreign Relations Law, American Society of International Law
PUBLICATIONS
German Foreign Intelligence from Hitler’s War to the Cold War: Flawed Assumptions and Faulty Analysis (Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 2019)
After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2022)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
German Studies Association
Society for Military History
American Historical Association