Lieutenant Colonel Robert Kirkland, professor and chair of the Department of Military Science and Leadership, is concluding a three-year assignment to the College. Kirkland deploys to Iraq this month to become the historian, Multi-National Force-Iraq, serving as chief advisor for historical matters to the Commanding General.
Upon his return from Iraq in 2010, Kirkland will remain connected to CMC by serving as an adjunct assistant professor of history.
"I would like to thank CMC President Pamela Gann, Dean of the Faculty Greg Hess, Dean of students Jeff Huang, the department of history, and the faculty and staff of Claremont McKenna for a wonderful tenure as the Army ROTC program head," Kirkland said. "I'm looking forward to my deployment to Iraq. As well, I am eager to return so I can share my experiences with the students as an adjunct professor."
Kirkland, who in 2008 served as president of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, is the author of Observing Our Hermanos de Armas (Routledge 2003), a book on the U.S. Military Attach? experience in Latin America in the 1950s and 1960. He has also authored several journal articles, contributed to a number of Latin American encyclopedias, and was the recipient of the Kravis Leadership Institute Faculty Research Grant (2005), the David Hetz Ethics Grant, (2005), and the Juan Espedas Prize, Middle Atlantic Council For Latin American Studies.