Biography - Brian T Carey

Brian Todd Carey earned Bachelor of Arts in History (with Religious Studies Interdisciplinary Certification) from Colorado State University in 1992, a Master of Arts in History from Colorado State University (with Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Certification) in 1994, and a Master of Arts in Military Studies from the American Military University in 1998.

He has been a full-time Assistant Professor of History and Military Studies at the American Public University System since 2002, and an instructor here since 1997. He is also a part-time instructor of western civilization and world civilizations at Front Range Community College. He has served as vice-president of the Rocky Mountain Regional World History Association and faculty advisor to the Asian Studies Program Board at Colorado State University. He has also served as a member of a six-professor scientific committee who oversaw the veracity of articles submitted for publication for two French-language bi-monthly military history and science periodicals. Histoire Mondiale des Conflits highlighted different battles, campaigns and martial technologies throughout the history of warfare, while Histoire Mondiale des Conflits -Thematique concentrated on one military subject per issue.

In 2007, Professor Carey was the recipient of American Public University System’s inaugural Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award for the School of Arts and Humanities.

He is the author of dozens of articles in numerous magazines and journals, including Aviation History, Command Magazine, History Magazine, Marine Corps Gazette, Medieval History Magazine, Military Heritage, Military History, Strategy and Tactics, World History Bulletin, World at War, World War II, and WWII Quarterly: The Journal of the Second World War. He also contributed seventeen peer-reviewed articles on ancient, classical and medieval Eurasian warfare to the twenty-one volume ABC-CLIO-World History Encyclopedia (2011).

Collaborating with map illustrators Joshua Allfree and John Cairns he published a two-volume military history survey in 2006 entitled Warfare in the Ancient World and Warfare in the Medieval World covering the evolution of warfare in western civilization from the rise of Sumer through the Thirty Years' War. In 2008 they published a book describing the campaigns of Hannibal Barca and the Second Punic War entitled Hannibal's Last Battle: Zama and the Fall of Carthage. Their fourth book, entitled Manzikert, 1071 (Pen and Sword Books, forthcoming November 2011), will explore the martial relationships between Byzantium and Islam culminating in the famous battle of Manzikert.