Dr. Kara Dixon Vuic received her PhD from Indiana University and is currently the LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America at Texas Christian University. Her career has focused extensively on women in the U.S. Military with particular focuses on the Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War and the history of military entertainment. Her work reflects the Archives’s mission of bridging the past and present. As the case National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System was recently denied hearing by the Supreme Court, women continue to hold unequal obligations for Selective Service registration. Using details found in Selective Service System and other records documenting the history of women in the military, Dr. Vuic will complete her book Drafting Women, which will intertwine the past debates about conscripting women with their present, and future, implications.

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