Assistant professor Alex Paul specializes in modern U.S. History, war and society, and race and ethnicity. He teaches courses including the Progressive Era, World War I and American Society, Marshall and the American Century, and the two-semester U.S. History survey. Before joining the History Department at VMI, Paul served as an infantry soldier in the British Army and received a doctorate in history from the University of Houston.

His current book project, which the University of Virginia Press plans to publish in its “Democratic Ideals in Global Perspective” series, reveals how immigrants in the United States responded to conscription during World War I.

At VMI, Paul is a co-faculty advisor for the Virginia History Society.