Kimberly Enderle

I am a veteran and military retiree. My research focuses on the social and cultural aspects of United States history in the twentieth century. Using an intersectional approach, my research investigates the discourses of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and ability that circumscribe women's and other marginalized community's participation in the U.S. military. Using oral history as a method, my research interrogates the social construct of citizen soldiers and challenges dominant historical narratives of combat veterans. By documenting the lived experiences of women, people of color, and the LGBT community I seeks to emphasize the resiliency and resolve of American's marginalized warriors and to disrupt hegemonic understandings of citizenship, soldier, and veteran. By centering on the experiences of marginalized veterans my implicit intent is to make those made invisible by the dominant historical narrative visible, and to eliminate historical silences.