Dr. Thomas A. Hughes is a Professor of Strategy and Security Studies at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB), Alabama. SAASS is a selective one-year graduate school for strategists with 16 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.
His teaching expertise includes collegiate and graduate courses in American and European history, military history, aviation history, the history of strategy, security studies, and military doctrine.
EDUCATION
1986 Bachelor of Arts in History, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minn.
1991 Master of Arts in History, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
1994 Doctor of Philosophy in History, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
September 1988 – June 1994, Graduate Teaching Associate, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
September 1994 – June 1995, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mershon Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
July 1995 – June 1996, Visiting Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
June 1996 – June 2002, Assistant Professor, Air War College (AWC), Maxwell AFB, Ala.
July 2002 – May 2003, Associate Professor, AWC, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
June 2003 – May 2016, Associate Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), Maxwell AFB, Ala.
June 2016 – present, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), Maxwell AFB, Ala.
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
September 2000 – September 2001, Ramsey Fellow, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
PUBLICATIONS
“Over Lord: General Pete Quesada and the Triumph of Tactical Air Power in World War II Europe, New York: The Free Press, 1995.
Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2016.
Numerous articles and book chapters.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
American Historical Association
Society for Military History