Bio
Dr. Jorden Pitt is an Instructor of History at the United States Air Force Academy. He earned his PhD in History from Texas Christian University in 2024. His research explores the intersections between modern warfare, mental health and disabilities, technology, gender, and veteran activism. In 2022-2023, the American Historical Association and NASA awarded Dr. Pitt one of its prestigious Fellowships in Aerospace History. Dr. Pitt is currently preparing his dissertation as a book manuscript and is a co-editor of an upcoming edited collection.
Education
PhD, History, TCU, 2024
Dissertation: “The Traumatic Blue Sky: The Psychological Consequences of Aerial Warfare in the Twentieth Century”
MA, History, Kansas State University, 2019
BA, History, University of Wyoming, 2015
Professional Experience
Instructor, Department of History, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado (2023 – Present)
Graduate Instructor of Record, Department of History, TCU, Fort Worth, Texas (2022)
Graduate Student Representative, the Society of Military History (2023-2025)
Honors & Awards
The American Historical Association and National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Fellowship in Space Technology, 2022-2023
The Clark-Yudkin Research Fellowship – The Friends of the Air Force Academy Library, 2023
Boller Dissertation Fellowship, TCU, 2022-2023
Research and Scholarly Interests
War & Society
Disability Studies
Aerospace and Technology
Political and Diplomatic History
Gender Studies
Publications
Articles
“Mobilizing for the Mind: Veteran Activism and the National Mental Health Act of 1946,” The Journal of Policy History 36, no. 2 (Spring 2024).
Selected Essays
Selected Book Reviews
Rebecca Schwartz Greene, Breaking Point: The Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II, on H-War via H-Net, November 2023, https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58761.
Gregory A. Daddis, Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines, in the Journal of Cold War Studies 25, no. 1 (Winter 2022-2023): 212-214.
Dillon J. Carroll, Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers, in the US Military History Review 8, no. 1 (October 2022): 53-54.
Steven Paget, Editor, Allies in Air Power: A History of Multinational Air Operations, in the Journal of Military History 86, no. 1 (January 2022): 197-198.