Community of Practice

Honorary Members

Alice Butler-Smith

Dr. Alice Butler-Smith is a Professor of History, School of Advanced Military Studies, Ft Leavenworth, KS, and is a graduate of the University of Kansas from which she holds an MA degree in International Relations and Comparative Politics, and a PhD with specialties in Middle East History, American Diplomatic and Military History, and International Relations and Comparative Politics. She is a James B. Pearson Fellow and a Fellow of the Temple University Feinstein Center for American Jewish History.

Dr. Butler-Smith has done extensive archival research in American and British Middle East diplomacy and Middle East politics in the United States, Great Britain, and Israel and has published on related topics. She has taught at King’s College, London, and is currently an adjunct faculty member at the University of Kansas.

At the School of Advanced Military Studies, Dr. Butler-Smith teaches across the curriculum on topics related to Great Power perspectives, military theory and history, design, and Middle East history and politics.