Wayne Hsieh
Associate Professor
Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh is a military historian whose work focuses on the Civil War and military affairs. He taught for two decades at the United States Naval Academy and has also taught in Yale University’s Directed Studies program, where he was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center. He also held a Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Yale’s Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy.
From 2008 to 2009, Hsieh served as the Tuz Satellite Lead for the Salah Din Provincial Reconstruction Team in Tuz, Iraq, where he led all nonmilitary U.S. government efforts in the Tuz district.
Education
PhD, University of Virginia
Publications
West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace
A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
