Rose Mary Sheldon

Colonel Rose Mary Sheldon (born October 10, 1948) is an American professor and military and classical historian who held the Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. Chair of Military History at the Virginia Military Institute, where she taught from 1993 to 2019. She received her doctorate in ancient history from the University of Michigan, for which she won a National Intelligence Book award in 1987. In 1981, she became a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. She sat on the editorial boards of the Journal of Military History and International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence.

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