Participant Info

First Name
Angela
Last Name
Riotto
Country
United States
State
VA
Affiliation
Defense Security Cooperation University
Website URL
https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-riotto-phd-a3a41784/
Keywords
American Civil War, Memory Studies, Prisoners of War, Narrative, Literary Studies, Environmental History, Hard War, Reconstruction, Reconciliation, Reunion, Commemoration, Remembrance, Memorial, World War I, The Great War, Veterans, Veteran Reintergration, POWs, Imprisonment, Captivity, Capture, Memory, Memoirs, Reminiscences, Gender, Security Cooperation, Security Assistance
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Media Contact
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

Angela M. Riotto is a military historian, who specializes in the American Civil War era, prisoners of war, memory studies, and literary studies. She received her PhD in American History from the University of Akron. She currently works as the historian for the Brigadier General Charles Young Research, Analysis, and Lessons Learned Institute within the Defense Security Cooperation University. Before joining the Young Institute in March 2024, Dr. Riotto worked with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Historical Office. Prior to that, she taught as an assistant professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Before joining the faculty at CGSC, Dr. Riotto worked for Army University Press’s Films Team making documentaries to teach current U.S. Army doctrine and military history. While there, she researched and wrote scripts for films covering Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003) and the invasion of Okinawa (1945). She researched, wrote, and directed three films—OIF: The Drive to Baghdad, OIF: The Fight for Baghdad, and Okinawa 1945: Planning Operation ICEBERG—and wrote the script for the second Okinawa film—Okinawa 1945: Typhoon of Steel. To produce these films, Dr. Riotto interviewed dozens of OIF veterans, traveled to OIF reunions, as well as traveled to Okinawa to perform archival research and terrain reconnaissance. Dr. Riotto has also published numerous book chapters, journal articles, book reviews and encyclopedia entries, and presented her work at scholarly conferences across the country and abroad. She is currently working on two book manuscripts, Beyond the Prison Pen: Union and Confederate Former Prisoners of War and their Narratives of Captivity, 1861-1930 and The Life and Legacy of Robert Smalls.

Recent Publications
Media Coverage
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
18th century, 19th century, Early Modern, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
American Civil War, American Revolution, American Founding Era, Book History, Disability, Environment, Family, Gender, Government, Higher Ed, Libraries & Archives, Literary History, Military, Museums, Public History, Race, World War I