Wayne Hsieh

Associate Professor, School of Civic Leadership, University of Texas at Austin

Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh is the author of West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace, co-author with Williamson Murray of A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War, and various essays and articles on military history and military affairs.

He received his doctoral degree from the University of Virginia and taught for two decades at the United States Naval Academy. He has also taught in the Directed Studies program at Yale University (where he was also once a student) as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, and he also held a Henry Chauncy Jr., ’57 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale’s Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy.

Between 2008–2009, he also served as the Tuz Satellite Lead for the Salah Din Provincial Reconstruction Team in Tuz, Iraq, where he led all non-military U.S. Government efforts in the Tuz district.