Graham Cross

Graham Cross researches the way the United States has interacted with the world through military, diplomatic and cultural means and the intersection of their military operations and societies during the first half of the twentieth century and the era of the world wars.

He has expert knowledge of the American air campaigns in Europe and the social history of the "Friendly Invasion" of Britain by American forces during the Second World War. He has written extensively on the history of the American Eighth Air Force that conducted a strategic bombing campaign against Germany. His current research includes a British Academy funded project looking at the African American 923rd Engineer Aviation Regiment and a further project on the experience of the Women's Army Corps (WACs) in wartime Britain.

His previous research publications have covered the impact of the First World War on the foreign policy of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and he maintains an active research interest in presidential foreign policy, particularly that of the FDR era and air power.