Dr Kyle Sinisi
Professor of History, The Citadel Military College of South Carolina
Kyle S. Sinisi graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1984 with a BA in History. Following four years of active-duty service in the United States Army, he attended Kansas State University, where he earned both the MA and Ph.D. Kyle has served as a professor at The Citadel (The Military College of South Carolina) since 1994.
At The Citadel, Kyle concentrates his course offerings on the Civil War, World War II, U.S. military history, and the history of weaponry. He is a two-time recipient of the James A. Grimsley Award, The Citadel’s annual award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Kyle is co-editor (with Professor Michael B. Barrett) of the “War and Society” line of books for Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the author of The Last Hurrah: Sterling Price’s Missouri Expedition of 1864 (A.M. Pate Award for best book of 2015 on the Trans-Mississippi Civil War) and Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism. He is also a co-editor of Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. Kyle can be seen in programs on the Discovery Channel, the Smithsonian Channel, and South Carolina Educational Television.
