Prof. Christopher Capozzola

Professor Capozzola's research interests are in the history of citizenship, war, and the military in modern American history. His first book, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (Oxford University Press, 2008), examines the relationship between citizens, voluntary associations, and the federal government during World War I. Uncle Sam Wants You won the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize of the New England American Studies Association.

His next book, Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century , was published by Basic Books in 2020. Research for Bound by War was supported by the Historical Society of Southern California, the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. A portion of this project won the annual Cold War Essay Prize given by the John Adams Center at the Virginia Military Institute.

With funding from the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs’ initiative on “The Living Legacy of the Great War” he began preliminary research for a new project on Congressional investigations of the munitions industry during and after the First World War.