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A.J. Murphy

A.J. Murphy is a scholar of American military history, the history of capitalism, and the history of gender and sexuality. Their current book project - Pentagon Capitalism: How the Cold War US Military Modeled Itself on Private Business (forthcoming, Harvard University Press) - recounts how defense leaders reorganized the U.S. military on the model of the private, for-profit firm. Murphy’s research has been supported by the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, the Hagley Museum and Library, the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, the Huntington Library, and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth.

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