COL Seanegan Sculley
Academy Professor
seanegan.sculley@westpoint.edu
Biography
COL Seanegan Sculley enlisted in the US Army in January 1995 as an airborne infantryman and served in Vicenza, IT until attending Officer Candidate School in the summer of 1999. He was commissioned as an Armor officer and became a tank platoon leader in 1-12 Cavalry at Fort Hood, TX before completing his BA in History at Texas State University in December 2002. COL Sculley then deployed to Camp GarryOwen at Munsan, Republic of Korea from 2003-2005 and then earned his MA in History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2007. From 2007-2012, he served as both an instructor and assistant professor of History at the United States Military Academy during which time he deployed to Mosul, Iraq from 2009-2010. Following his assignment to West Point, COL Sculley attended the Command and General Staff College in 2012-2013 and then served as the Battalion Executive Officer for 4-10 Infantry Regiment and the Brigade Operations Officer for the 71st Infantry Brigade at Fort Jackson, SC. He earned his PhD in History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in May 2015 and he currently serves as an Academy Professor in the Department of History at West Point.
Ongoing Research Projects
“We will not be Coerced: Military Discipline in the Continental Army, 1775-1783.” Paper presentation at the 86th Annual Meeting for the Society for Military History. Columbus, OH. 9-11 May 2019.
Publications & Presentations
Books:
Men of the Meanest Sort: Military Leadership and War in the New England Colonies, 1690-1775. Saarbrucken, Germany: Verlag Dr. Mullen, 2008.
‘Contest for Liberty’: Military Leadership in the Continental Army, 1775-1783. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2019.
Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters:
“Sailing on Stormy Seas: U.S. Joint Forces Command and Reorganization in the Post-Cold War World,” in Stand Up and Fight!: The Creation of U.S. Security Organizations, 1942-2005. Edited by Ty Seidule and Jacqui Whitt. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2015.
Other Publications:
“West Point, 1775-1777,” in The West Point History of the American Revolution. Edited by Samuel J. Watson, Ty Seidule, and Clifford J. Rogers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. Page 110.
“West Point, 1778-1783,” in The West Point History of the American Revolution. Edited by Samuel J. Watson, Ty Seidule, and Clifford J. Rogers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. Foldout between pages 110 and 111.
“The War in the North, 1778-1783,” in The West Point History of the American Revolution. Edited by Samuel J. Watson, Ty Seidule, and Clifford J. Rogers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. Page 156.
“Arnold’s Betrayal, 1780,” in The West Point History of the American Revolution. Edited by Samuel J. Watson, Ty Seidule, and Clifford J. Rogers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. Page 180-181.
Conference Presentations:
“Men of the Meanest Sort: Military Leadership and War in Colonial New England, 1690-1775.” Fifth Annual Fort Ticonderoga Seminar on the American Revolution; Fort Ticonderoga, NY, 25 October 2008.
“Men of the Meanest Sort: Military Leadership and War in Colonial New England, 1690-1775.” National Guard Association of Massachusetts Annual Conference; Framingham, Massachusetts, 21 April 2011.
Commentator for “Young Scholars Panel – Economics, the Press, and Civil Rights: Shaping the Global Cold War.” 85th Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History; Louisville, Kentucky, 5-8 April 2018.
“Fortress West Point and the American Revolution.” American Revolution Round Table – Central Pennsylvania; Boalsburg, PA, 4 November 2018.
“Contest for Liberty: Military Leadership in the Continental Army.” 8th Annual Conference on the American Revolution; Williamsburg, VA, 24 March 2019.