Biography - Barry M Stentiford

Dr. Stentiford, originally from Massachusetts, holds a B.S. from the University of Great Falls, an M.A. from the University of Montana, and a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama, all in History. His dissertation, The State Militia in the Twentieth century, dealt with non-National Guard militia units created by states, mainly to perform state missions during wartime, when the National Guard was unavailable to the states. After some revisions, it was published as The American Home Guard by Texas A&M Press in 2002.

Dr. Stentiford is an Associate Professor of History at the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) on Fort Leavenworth. Prior to that he was an associate professor at Grambling State University, in Louisiana, for eleven years. He is also an adjunct faculty member for Distance Education at the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College.

Dr. Stentiford also holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserve, and serves as an instructor for the 104th Regiment, where he teaches Intermediate Level Education, Common Core. He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College Intermediate Level Education Course (CC and AOWC). Before joining the Army Reserve, he served three years in the Montana Army National Guard and six years in the Mississippi Army National Guard, as an Armor officer. He spent four years in the late 1980s in the Air Force as an enlisted man, working on Minuteman III ICBMs in Montana and Ground Launched Cruise Missiles in Belgium. He has been in the Army National Guard or Army Reserve ever since.

In addition to the American Home Guard, Dr. Stentiford is the co-editor of the Jim Crow Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press, 2008). His book on the Tuskegee Airmen was published by ABC-Clio in 2011. He has recently completed a manuscript on the decline of a once prestigious militia company, which is currently under review for publication.


He is married and has one son. They live in eastern Kansas.