Kevin Boylan

Kevin Boylan teaches history at Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned his BA in history from Rutgers University, and his PhD from Temple University. From 1995 to 2005, he was employed by the Pentagon as a defense analyst for the U.S. Defense Department and the U.S. Army Staff. Dr. Boylan returned to academe in 2005, teaching first at the University of Maine, Augusta, and then at a variety of colleges and universities in Connecticut and Wisconsin before moving to Boston. In October 2014, his groundbreaking article on the topic of Viet Minh artillery at Dien Bien Phu was published in the Journal of Military History, and won the Society of Military History's Moncado Prize in 2015. He lives in Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.A.