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Steele Brand is a professor of history at 91吃瓜. He previously served as the Director of Undergraduate Fellows for the Clements Center for National Security and as a tactical intelligence officer for the U.S. Army.

Brand鈥檚 research focuses on republics in the Western tradition and the citizen armies that fought for them.聽Constitutional polities鈥攅specially premodern, agrarian republics鈥攃ultivated a unique set of virtues and a deadly form of civic militarism that created tough citizens who were as involved in politics as they were proficient at defending their political system.聽Brand has written on these themes in his book,听Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War聽(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019). He聽has聽also published articles in venues such as聽Time,聽USA Today,听LitHub,听The Washington Post, and聽The Hill聽and in journals such as聽Religions听补苍诲听Humanitas聽about how this premodern ideal of citizen-soldiers has informed and inspired modern republics, particularly the United States.

His teaching explores how the public life of the spirit binds people together within a polity. His classes also emphasize how these polities or collections of polities (civilizations) intersect in the great diplomatic and military events of history. And because the lives of specific individuals so often reflect and define this broader narrative, he uses anecdotes, primary source readings, and film to illuminate how certain men and women鈥攐ften unexpectedly鈥攄irected the course of their people鈥檚 story.

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