Dr Matthew Goetz Assistant Professor matthew.goetz@westpoint.edu Biography Matthew Goetz earned his doctorate in American history from The George Washington University (GW) in 2023. His research focuses on the intersection of race, gender, and foreign policy in the early American Republic. In addition to teaching at West Point, GW, and Georgetown University, he has worked in a variety of public history roles, including with the White House Historical Association, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the San Diego Archaeological Society, and the Wende Museum in Los Angeles. Ongoing Research Projects Dissertation: “‘The Barbary States of America’: The Barbary Wars and American Racial Politics” (finalist for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic dissertation award) Publications & Presentations “The Forgotten, Controversial History of DC’s First Monument,” presented at The DC History Conference (2024) “George Washington: Father of the Navy,” White House History Quarterly 71 (Fall 2023): 16-25. “‘The Algerine Mission’: American Espionage and Covert Operations during the Barbary Wars,” presented at the Society for Military Historians annual conference (2023) “Fleeing from the Shores of Tripoli: America’s First Messy Retreat from a Foreign War and the Backlash it Engendered,” Commonplace: the journal of Early American Life (2022) “‘Bona Terra, Mala Gens,’ or, Good Land, Bad Race: United States Consuls to the Barbary Coast and the Colonization of the American West,” presented at The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic annual conference (2022) “‘The Barbary States of America’: The Abolition Movement and the Collective Memory of the Barbary Wars,” presented at the Society of Civil War Historians annual conference (2022)