Jesse Kauffman holds a BA in history from UCLA, and an MA and PhD from Stanford, and is currently associate professor of history at Eastern Michigan University. His area of research and teaching is modern European political, military, and cultural history. He is the author of a book on the German occupation of Poland in World War I, Elusive Alliance, published by Harvard in 2015, and is currently writing a broader survey history of the Eastern Front in World War I, which is under contract with Harvard and will be published in 2022.