Dr. Matthew B. Goetz Assistant Professor History Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies matthew.goetz [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Matthew Goetz earned his doctorate in American history from The George Washington University (GW) in 2023. His research focuses on foreign policy and politics 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. Ph.D. - The George Washington UniversityM.A. - Marquette UniversityB.A. - Loyola Marymount University Selected Publications "The Barbary Wars," in The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States since 1775, Cara Lee Burnidge and Lauren Frances Turek, eds. (Routledge Press, 2024).“George Washington: Father of the Navy,” White House History Quarterly 71 (Fall 2023): 16-25. “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)