Dr. Stephen R. Ortiz, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Florida, 2004).  Dr. Ortiz joined the BGSU Department of History in the Fall of 2007 after having taught for two years at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania.  His research examines US veteran’s policy and the political activism of military veterans during the 20th century.  In 2006, he published articles in the Journal of Military History and the Journal of Policy History.  The article “The ‘New Deal’ for Veterans”: The Economy Act, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Origins of New Deal Dissent,” was awarded the 2007 Moncado Prize by the Society for Military History for best article in the 2006 Journal of Military History.  Currently, he is finishing a book for New York University Press entitled, From the Bonus March to the GI Bill: How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era.   Dr. Ortiz’s teaching interests range broadly in the political, military, diplomatic, and gender history of the twentieth-century United States.  More information can be found on Dr. Ortiz’s webpage: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~sortiz/.