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Name
  
Mark Choate


Alma mater
  
Yale University (B.A.) Yale University (M.A.) Yale University (M.Phil.) Yale University (Ph.D.)

Other academic advisors
  
Paul Kennedy, Linda Colley, John M. Merriman, Geoffrey Parker (historian)

Doctoral advisor
  
Frank M. Snowden III

Battles and wars
  
War in Afghanistan

Service/branch
  
United States Army

Mark Irvan Choate is a history professor at Brigham Young University and adjunct research professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, specializing in the history of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the world, specifically international relations, migration, colonialism, and grand strategy. He emphasizes the relationships between international emigration, immigration, and colonialism, and transnational influences in the fields of diplomacy, trade, currency exchange, and military power.

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Early life

After living in Pago Pago, American Samoa, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a child, Choate grew up in rural Osage County, Oklahoma, and graduated from Charles Page High School in Sand Springs. While a freshman at Yale College, he enlisted as a medic in the Army National Guard, using the G.I. Bill to help pay for school.

Fellowships and memberships

He has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2008, and a fellow of the Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea since 2009. He was a visiting fellow at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales at Sciences Po, Paris, in 2014-2015.

Distinctions

2009: Howard R. Marraro Prize
2010: Council for European Studies Book Award
2010: BYU Class of 1949 Young Faculty Award teaching prize

Military service

Choate enlisted in 1989 as a Private first class in the Oklahoma National Guard. He completed basic training at Fort Jackson and advanced individual training as a medic at Fort Sam Houston. Choate ended his enlistment at the rank of staff sergeant upon being commissioned through Officer Candidate School in 1994.

Decorations and badges

Choate's decorations and badges include the following:

Works

  • Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad (Harvard University Press, 2008) ISBN 978-0-6740-2784-8
  • “New Dynamics and New Imperial Powers, 1876-1905,” in The Routledge History of Western Empires (Oxford/New York: Routledge, 2014) ISBN 978-0-4156-3987-3
  • “National Communications for a Transnational Community: Italy’s promotion of italianità among emigrants, 1870-1920,” in Transnational Political Spaces: Agents - Structures - Encounters (Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2009) ISBN 978-3-5933-8945-5
  • "Tunisia, Contested: Italian Nationalism, French Imperial Rule, and Migration in the Mediterranean Basin". California Italian Studies (February 2010): 1–20. Retrieved 11 January 2014. 
  • "Sending States’ Transnational Interventions in Politics, Culture, and Economics: The Historical Example of Italy". International Migration Review (Fall 2007): 728–768. 
  • "Identity Politics and Political Perception in the European Settlement of Tunisia: The French Colony vs. the Italian Colony". French Colonial History (Fall 2007): 97–109. 
  • "From Territorial to Ethnographic Colonies and Back Again: The Politics of Italian Expansion, 1890-1912". Modern Italy: Journal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (Spring 2003): 65–75. 

    • References

    Mark Choate Wikipedia
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