The Military History Center at the University of North Texas is pleased to announce the Spring 2015 Executive Council Discussion Series Lecture will be held on Monday 4 May at 6:30. Dr. Ed Westermann of TAMU-San Antonio will present in Room 116 of SAGE HALL: "Colonizing the Nazi East and Conquering the American West: Comparing Processes of Conquest and Genocide." Dr. Westermann received his Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. He teaches classes on European history, the Holocaust, war and society, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. He previously taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels at the Air University in Montgomery, Alabama and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado holding the following positions: Full Professor of Military Strategic Studies, U.S. Air Force Academy (May 07-Jan 08); Associate Professor of Comparative Military History and Theory, U.S. Air Force Academy (Jun 06-May 07); and Associate Professor of Comparative Military History and Theory, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (Sep 03-Jun 06). He is the author of Hitler’s Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East (University Press of Kansas, 2005) and Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defenses, 1914-1945 (University Press of Kansas, 2001). His current research project, "Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars," uses a comparative empirical approach to examine Nazi eastward expansion in World War II and U.S. westward expansion between 1850 and 1890. Dr. Westermann is the recipient of numerous research grants and fellowships and he has been a Fulbright Fellow, a German Academic Exchange Service Fellow, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. He also is the Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio. His research interests are the Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Nazi Germany, World War II, and Air Power. Sage Hall is located on the northeast end of campus not far from the Highland Street Garage. If you have any questions, please contact the History Department at 940 565 2288. This event is free and open to the public. http://www.unt.edu/transit/pdf/2011-2012%20ParkingMap.pdf