Dirk D. Ringgenberg
Dirk Ringgenberg is a Associate Director and Senior National Security Fellow for Instruction in the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas of Austin.
Dr. Ringgenberg received his PhD in History (military technology) from Iowa State University, MA in military arts and science from U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and BA in History from Columbus State University. Dirk is completing a book manuscript on the U.S. Army Signal Corps adoption and development of wireless / radio from 1898 to 1917. Future projects include a biography on Major General Adolphus Greely and history of the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
Dirk published and collaborated on several military history articles including the 2008 Army History J. Lawton Collins Award Winning “The Battle of Bulac Kalay,” and recent historical presentations at the National World War I Museum, University of Kansas, and Kansas City public library.
Prior to joining the Clements Center, Dirk served ten years as an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in the Department of Military History and the U.S. Army for 24 years, retiring in 2011 as a Major with a distinguished military career. Dirk is a highly decorated (Silver Star, Bronze Star for Valor and Legion of Merit) Infantryman with 10 years’ service enlisted and non-commissioned officer and 14 years as an officer with notable service in the 75th Ranger Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division and 173rd Airborne Brigade. Dirk completed numerous courses, schools and deployments. His combat service includes Desert Shield /Storm in 1990/91, Iraq 2003/04, Afghanistan 2005/06, Iraq 2009/10.
Dirk and wife, Michelle (Beauregard) Ringgenberg live in Cedar Park, Texas with son, Hunter.
Dirk can be reached at dirk.ringgenberg@austin.utexas.edu.