About the CST

Brad West

Brad West is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia. He is the immediate past co-President of the International Sociological Association & Research Committee on Sociological Theory (2018-2023), a Faculty Fellow in the  Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University  and co-founder of the Military Organisation and Culture Studies Group. His recent publications include the sole authored books Finding Gallipoli: Battlefield Remembrance and the Movement of Australian and Turkish History and Re-enchanting Nationalisms as well as journal articles on the Invictus Games and tourism of the American war in Vietnam. He is also the co-editor of Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture (with Thomas Crosbie) and The New Australian Military Sociology (forthcoming). He is currently undertaking a large project on social influence and grey zone warfare for the Defence Science and Technology Group in the Australian Department of Defence.