About the Author

Rebecca A. Adelman isprofessor of media and communication studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is author of Beyond the Checkpoint: Visual Practices in America's Global War on Terror and Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War.

David Kieran is assistant professor of history at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. He is author of Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis and Forever Vietnam: How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory.

Reviews

"An excellent resource for researchers intent on forming a better understanding of the methodological challenges that are reflected in researching trauma in complex environments, such as the distant battlefield, and how contemporary modes of approaching this topic have shifted over time."-Security & Dialogue