Jason Dawsey

Jason Dawsey joined The National WWII Museum in September 2017 as a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Special Projects Historian and investigated what happened to hundreds of American POWs in German captivity whose remains were never recovered. Between 2019 and 2023, he worked in the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy as a Research Historian. Dawsey received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2013 and has taught world history and European history at Pearl River Community College, the University of Chicago, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. In the Institute, he examines the service records of WWII veterans and writes their biographies for family members, and regularly contributes to the Museum’s website and public programming on subjects such as the anti-Nazi resistance, the Holocaust, and the lives and careers of scholars who shaped our understanding of World War II. Beyond his research on World War II, Dawsey co-edited (with Günter Bischof and Bernhard Fetz) The Life and Work of Günther Anders: Émigré, Iconoclast, Philosopher, Man of Letters (Studien Verlag, 2015) and is the author of several articles and book chapters on the philosophical and political thought of Günther Anders.