Dr. David Bath

Name: Dr. David Bath

Email: [email protected]

Phone Number: 918-343-6820

Title: Associate Professor and Faculty Advisor, Student Veteran Association

Department: History & Political Science

Office: Baird Hall, Room 219J

Dr. David BathEducation

Ph.D. in History
Texas A&M University
Dissertation: “Flameout: The Rise and Fall of Missiles in the U.S. Air Force, 1957-1967” 
Ph.D. Chair: Joseph G. Dawson III

M.S. in Strategic Intelligence
National Intelligence University 
Thesis: “Learning from our Past: Gathering Intelligence from our Prisoners of War” 
Advisor: James Major 

M.A. in History
University of North Dakota 
Thesis: “The Captive Samurai:  Japanese Prisoners Detained in the United States during World War II” 
Advisor: Albert Berger 

B.A. in History
Texas A&M University-Commerce 

Research and Teaching Interests

Leadership; US military history; Cold War; Recent U.S. History, Diplomacy & War in Society; intelligence; Modern Asia; Middle East  

Teaching experience: 

2023 – Present, Associate Professor, Rogers State University
2018-2023, Assistant Professor, Rogers State University 
Courses taught:   

  • American History to 1877 (on-ground, online) 
  • American History since 1877 (on-ground, online, dual on-ground/distance learning) 
  • Introduction to Military History 
  • U.S. Conflicts Since 1945 
  • History of the American West 
  • War, Ethics, and Religion 
  • Intelligence, Politics, and Public Policy 
  • The Cold War 
  • Writing and Research for Historians (on-ground, distance learning) 
  • America and the World, 1914-1945 
  • Readings in Ancient History 
  • Introduction to Public History 
  • Integration of the U.S. Military 
  • Readings in Recent U.S. History 
  • American Foreign Policy 
  • U.S Conflicts after the Cold War 
  • Readings in Military Leadership/Strategy 
  • Hegemonic Conflict 
  • The Vietnam Conflict
  • Introduction to U.S. Intelligence
  • History Senior Capstone
  • Courses developed: 
  • U.S. Conflicts Since 1945 
  • The Cold War 
  • Readings in Ancient History 
  • Introduction to Public History 
  • U.S. Conflicts after the Cold War 
  • Hegemonic Conflict
  • The Vietnam Conflict
  • Introduction to U.S. Intelligence
  • Critical Thinking and Communications
  • Created and proctored Advanced Standing Test for Hist 2483 

2016-2018, Visiting Assistant Professor/Program Coordinator, Center for Intelligence and Security Studies, University of Mississippi 
Courses developed and taught:   

  • Introduction to Intelligence 
  • National Security Issues of the 21st Century 
  • Capstone – Intelligence and Security Studies 

2012, Section Leader/Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 
Courses taught: 

  • United States through 1877 
  • United States since 1877 
  • Civil War and Reconstruction 

2009-2010, Adjunct Instructor/Instructor of Record, Alamo Area Colleges, San Antonio, Texas 
Courses taught: 

  • U.S. History from Colonization to the Civil War 
  • U.S. History from Reconstruction to Present 

2005-2006, Adjunct Instructor, U.S. Special Operations School, Eglin AFB, Florida 
Course taught: Level II Antiterrorism Officer Training 

2004-2006, Lecturer, Intelligence Masters’ Skills Course, San Antonio, Texas 
Course taught: Cutting-edge Technologies and Methodologies 

Publications

  • Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force, Naval Institute Press, 2020.
  • Editor, Air Force Missileers and the Cuban Missile Crisis:  A Collection of Personal Reminiscences from Missileers and Others who Experienced the Cuban Missile Crisis of Cheyenne, WY:  Association of Air Force Missileers, 2012. 
  • “World War II Interrogation Centers in the United States,” North American Society for Intelligence History Newsletter, Winter 2022. 
  • “First Alert,: Combat Crew, 26-27, Strategic Air Command, Dec 1989. 

Awards

  • Student Government’s Most Impactful Professor, 2023
  • Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, Rogers State University, 2023
  • Nominated for College of Arts and Sciences Service Award, 2022 
  • Nominated for College of Arts and Sciences Scholarly Activities (Research) Award, 2021
  • Patron of the Year, Stratton Taylor Library, Rogers State University, 2020 
  • Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, Rogers State University, 2019 
  • Professor of the Year, Rogers State University Athletics Department, 2019 

Presentations

  • “Declining Enrollment of Male Learners in US Colleges and Universities” with Mary Millikin, Dana Gray, and Michelle Owens to Société Internationale pour L’enseignment Commercial, 2023.
  • “Bracing for Armageddon: Missileers in the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Society of Military History Conference, Fort Worth, TX – Apr 2022.  
  • “Captive Samurai: Japanese Rebellion in American P.O.W. Camps.” Northern Great Plains History Conference, Virtual Conference – Sep 2020. 
  • “Rebellion in the Camp: WWII Japanese POWs in Wisconsin.”  Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE – Mar 2020. (Conference cancelled one day before presentation due to coronavirus.) 
  • “Ultimate Long-Range Bombers:  The USAF and the Pursuit of Ballistic Nuclear Missiles.”  Society for Military History, Columbus, OH – May 2019.
  • “What Should We Teach About Nuclear Weapons in U.S. History?” Northern Great Plains History Conference, Grand Forks, ND – Oct 2017. 
  • “The Impending Irrelevance of the Director of National Intelligence: A Historical Perspective.”  International Association for Intelligence Education Conference, Charles Town, WV – May
  • “Alert!: The Rush to Ready U.S. Ballistic Missiles for the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Texas Oral History Conference, Commerce, TX – 2015. 
  • “Culture in Crisis:  SAC’s Response to the Cuban Missile Crisis.”  Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE – 2013.
  • “USAF Close Air Support in Theater Conflict:  A Doctrinal Imperative.” Northern Great Plains History Conference, Fargo, ND – 2012. 

Invited Speaker

  • “D-Day” – Alliance Française de Tulsa, Military History Museum Broken Arrow, Jun 2024
  • “Remembering September 11” – HC Men, Oologah, OK, Sep 2023.
  • Veterans Day Presentation – Legacy Christian School, 2022. 
  • Modern Scholar Podcast over Assured Destruction with Phillip Shackelford, Mar 2022. 
  • Book talk: Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force. RSU Libraries, Jan 2021 
  • Book talk: Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force. Claremore Museum of History, Sep 2020 
  • “History of the Oklahoma Military Academy.” Claremore Historical Society, June 2019 
  • “Ethics of U.S. Intelligence Collection.” Tulsa Philosophical Society, March 2019 
  • “Centennial Honoring World War I.”  Tulsa Historical Society, November 2018  
  • RSU Senior Day, Nov 2020 and Nov 2021 
  • Opening of RSU Student Veterans’ Center – February 2020 
  • Tulsa Metro Days, Nov 2019 
  • OKC Counselors’ Luncheon, Oct 2019 

Exhibitions

  • OMA Uniform displays throughout RSU campus (ongoing) 
  • Smithsonian Institute Exhibit on 100th Anniversary of the Ratification of 19th Amendment 

Manuscript Reviews

  • Brent Ziarnick’s To Rule the Skies: General Thomas Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War for Naval Institute Press. Published 2021. 
  • Terry Anderson’s Bush’s Wars for the author. Oxford University Press, 2013. 
  • Tamir Sinai, “Eyes on Target: Stay Behind Forces during the Cold War,” for War in History, Vol. 28, Issue 3, 2021. 
  • John Milam, “Rogers County Doughboy Honor Roll,” biographical sketches of Rogers County soldiers who died in WWI, for the author.  

Book Reviews:

  • Cold War Deceptions: The Asia Foundation and the CIA by David H. Price (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2024) on Choice Connect.
  • Uncertain Warriors: The United States Army between the Cold War and the War on Terror by David Fitzgerald (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024): in Choice Connect, Vol. 61, No. 11.
  • Soft Power and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy edited by Hendrik W. Ohnesorge (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2023) in Choice Connect, Vol. 61, No. 6.
  • Imperfect Partners: The United States and Southeast Asia by Scot Marciel (Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 2023) in Choice Connect, Vol. 61, No. 4.
  • Autumn of Our Discontent: Fall 1949 and the Crises in American National Security by John Curatola (Baltimore, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2022) for The Strategy Bridge.
  • Racism, Diplomacy, and International Relations by Ko Unoki (Routledge, 2022) in Choice Connect, Vol. 60, Issue 8. 
  • The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great Power Rivalry Today by Hal Brands (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022) in Choice Connect, Vol. 60, Issue 7. 
  • Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump by Benjamin Miller and Ziv Rubinovitz (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020) in H-Net. 
  • The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War by Brendan Rittenhouse Green (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020) in H-Net. 
  • Eisenhower’s Nuclear Calculus in Europe:  The Politics of IRBM Deployment in NATO Nations by Gates Brown (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2019) in H-Net. 
  • Maxwell Taylor’s Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam by Ingo Trauschweizer (Lexington, KY:  University Press of Kentucky, 2019), Journal of Military History, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Oct 2019), 1341-42. 
  • Subordinating Intelligence:  The DoD/CIA Post-Cold War Relationship by David P. Oakley (Lexington, KY:  University Press of Kentucky, 2019), U.S. Military History Review (Sep 2019). 
  • Silence was Salvation: Child Survivors of Stalin’s Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union by Cathy Frierson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015), The Oral History Review, Vol. 44, Issue 1 (Winter/Spring 2017), 136-138. 
  • Great Sioux War: Orders of Battle by Paul Hedren (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012) in H-Net (Apr 2013). 
  • Jackson’s Sword: The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1810-1821 by Samuel Watson (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012) in H-Net (July 2013). 

Institutional Service

  • Co-chair, HLC Assurance Argument Criterion 4: Teaching and Learning-Evaluation and Improvement Team, 2022 to present 
  • Faculty Advisor and founder, Alpha Mu Eta chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society, 2021 to present 
  • Faculty advisor, Student Veterans’ Association, Rogers State University, 2018-present 
  • Senator-at-Large, School of Arts and Sciences – RSU Faculty Senate, 2022-23 
  • Completed post-audit review of Military History major for Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Ed 
  • Faculty advisor, University of Mississippi/Rogers State University “Days of Intrigue” intelligence simulation, 2016-2019 
  • Initiated “Advising Training” at commencement through Faculty Development Committee  

Professional Service:

  • Gilman Scholars Selection Panelist (RSU representative), 2021-present Selecting scholarship recipients for State Dept’s study abroad language programs  
  • Chair and commentator, “Unexplored Legacies of The Great War: Much More Still to Be Learned!”, Society for Military History virtual conference – Mar 2023.
  • Chair and commentator, “Leading through the Ranks,” Society of Military History, Fort Worth, TX – May 2022  
  • Chair, Weapons, “Arms, and Strategy,” Pi Sigma Alpha National Student Research Conference, virtual, March 2022 
  • Chair, “Civil Wars Far and Near,” Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE – 2020 (Conference cancelled the day before presentation due to coronavirus.) 
  • Chair, “World War II: Prisoners of War and Veterans’ Rights,” Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE – 2019 
  • Chair and commentator, “Insurgency, Decolonization, and Foreign Aid in Vietnam,” Society of Military History Annual Conference, Louisville, KY – 2018 
  • Chair and commentator, “Blockade Culture of the American Civil War” and Judge, MA paper competition, 5th Annual Texas A&M History Conference, College Station, TX – 2014 
  • Expert consultant on ballistic missiles to news media–The New Yorker, 2020-present 
  • RSU liaison to U.S. intelligence community, 2018-present 
  • Manuscript reviewer, Naval Institute Press, 2018-present 
  • Manuscript reviewer, War in History, 2019- present 
  • Reviewer, Choice Reviews (Association of College and Research Libraries), 2022-present 
  • Reviewer, Journal of Military History, 2019-present  
  • Reviewer, U.S. Military History Review, 2019-2023 
  • Reviewer, H-Net Social Sciences & Humanities Online, 2012-present 

Committee Service

  • Co-chair, HLC Assurance Argument for Criterion 4: Teaching and Learning-Evaluation and Improvement Team, 2022-present
  • Member, Strategic Planning Committee – Goal #2, 2022-present
  • Member, Commencement Planning Committee, 2022-present 
  • Chair, Hiring committee for Political Science assistant professor, 2024
  • Member, Hiring committee for Director, First Year Experience, 2022 
  • Chair, Hiring committee for History/Political Science assistant professor, 2021-22 
  • Campus Security Authority, Clery Act, 2021-present 
  • Member, Hiring committee for RSU Coordinator for Counseling Services 2020 and 2021 
  • Member, Selection Committee, OMA Military History Scholarships, 2019-present 
  • Member, Selection Committee, Roosevelt Prize (top student in Military History), 2019-present 
  • Member, Strategic Planning Committee for Campus and Community Engagement, 2021-present
  • Member, RSU Budget Advisory Committee, 2019-present 
  • Member, Faculty Development Committee, 2019-23 (Chair, 2022-23)
  • Member, RSU Assessments Committee, 2018-present 
  • Member, Title IX Appeals Committee, 2019-2020 
  • Member, Enrollment Management Committee, 2019 
  • High Impact Leaders and Learners (HILL) Award selection committee, 2019 
  • Oklahoma Guard Officers Leadership Development program selection committee, 2019 

Community Service

  • Board Member, Rogers County Youth Service, 2020-present 
  • Board member, Compassion Women’s Center (VP – 2020, President – 2021-23), 2019-present 
  • FBI Civilian Academy, 2024
  • Judge, President’s Leadership Class Fairest on the Hill, 2021-23
  • College Sunday school teacher, First Baptist Church, 2021-24
  • Expert reviewer for American Association for State and Local History, 2023
  • Museum of History earned Award of Excellence from American Association for State and Local History

Advising and Mentoring

  • Student earned $30,000 Fellowship to PhD program at Florida State
  • Two students earned Teaching Assistantships for OU International Relations MA
  • Four students accepted to law school; one earned full ride scholarships to TU Law
  • Student accepted to State Department Program to learn Chinese
  • Student earned NSA internship
  • Student presented paper at Oklahoma Phi Alpha Theta History Conference, 2024
  • Student presented paper at Society for Military History virtual conference, 2023
  • Two students presented papers at Society for Military History virtual conference, 2021 
  • Two history students presented papers at SHIELD Conference, 2021 
  • Four history students had papers accepted by Missouri Valley History Conference, 2020  (Conference cancelled one day before start) 
  • One student presented a paper at the Society of Military History Conference, 2020 
  • Five history students presented papers at Missouri Valley History Conference, 2019
  • One student earned top undergraduate paper in military history 

Fellowships and Grants

  • Rogers State University – Scholarly Activities Grants, 2019 (2), 2020, 2022 
  • University of Mississippi – Conference Grants, 2016 & 2017 
  • History Department, Texas A&M University – Conference Grant, 2015 
  • Smith Richardson Foundation – World Politics and Statecraft Fellow, 2014  
  • History Department, Texas A&M University – Research Grant, 2014 
  • Office of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M – Research and Presentation Grant, 2013 
  • History Department, Texas A&M – Conference Grant, 2012 
  • Joseph J. Malone Fellow in Arab and Islamic Studies, National Council on US-Arab Relations,  2002 

Other Key Leadership Experience

  • Commissioned officer, U.S. Air Force 1988-2009 
  • Deputy Director of Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency
  • Intelligence Chief, Joint Interagency Coordination Group, US Central Command 
  • Chief, Counterterrorism for US Central Command Deployed HQ, Baghdad 2003 
  • Counterterrorism analyst for US Central Command from 2001-2003 
  • Middle East/North Africa intelligence analyst for HQ USAF 
  • AF Representative to the National Intelligence Council for Middle East/North Africa 
  • AF Representative to the National Military Joint Intelligence Center 
  • Commander, intelligence collection unit 
  • Director of Operations, intelligence collection/counter-intelligence unit 
  • Anti-terrorism/Counter-terrorism Division Chief, AF Force Protection Battlelab