Assistant Professor Andrew Kless to speak at Oct. 7 Bergren Forum: 'Monuments Men'
Andrew Kless, Alfred University Assistant Professor of History and Global Studies, will present the Oct. 7 Bergren Forum, “Monuments Men.” Kless’s talk will focus on how the United States Army looks back to the Second World War to address new global challenges.
Andrew Kless, Alfred University Assistant Professor of History and Global Studies, will present the Oct. 7 Bergren Forum, “Monuments Men.” Kless’s talk will focus on how the United States Army looks back to the Second World War to address new global challenges.
Kless earned his doctorate in History from the University of Rochester in 2020; his dissertation was titled “Infighting at the Front: Officers, Bureaucrats, and Politicians at War in German-Occupied Russian Poland, 1914–1915.” He subsequently won a 2021 University of Rochester Outstanding Dissertation Award in the category of Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences.
The Bergren Forum, sponsored by the Division of Human Studies in Alfred University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is held at 12:10 p.m. each Thursday. Each Forum is offered virtually via Zoom and will return to an in-person format once the University considers this sufficiently safe. The Zoom links can be obtained by e-mailing Marilyn Saxton.