About the Center

Director

Dr. Harold Tanner is a Professor History at the University of North Texas specializing in modern China. After graduating from New England College in 1983 and traveling extensively in China in 1984, Dr. Tanner earned an M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 1985, a second B.A. in Modern Chinese from the Beijing Languages Institute in 1987, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1994. His textbook China: A History (Hackett, 2009) is adopted at more than fifty colleges and universities ranging from Johnson Community College to Kenyon College to Brown University and Columbia University. Tanner’s most recent work, Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948 (Indiana University Press, 2015) focuses on the interaction of Chinese Communist and Nationalist forces on the ground in Manchuria and U.S. diplomacy in Washington and Nanjing in one of the key military engagements of the Chinese Civil War (1945-1959). Dr. Tanner has done presentations on Chinese political and military history and strategic culture to audiences at the Hoover Institution, the Society for Military History, the United States Army’s People’s Liberation Army Conference, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the U.S. Seventh Fleet Naval Reserve, the Air War College, and the National Defense University’s Joint Advanced Warfighting School.

Deputy Director

Dr. Vojin Majstorovic is a historian of World War II, with a specialization on the Soviet Union's Red Army. His manuscript explores the topic of sexual violence, discipline, and its enforcement in the Red Army, in the context of the violent Soviet occupation of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Austria in 1944-1945. His second major research project explores the Red Army's encounter with the Holocaust. 
His research has been published in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Slavic Review, and other journals. He regularly presents at the Annual Conventions of the Society for Military History and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. He has also presented his research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The National WWII Museum, and at numerous international conferences. 

Mailing Address:

Military History Center
Department of History
P.O. Box 310650
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203-0650