Cameron Zinsou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, where he studies what happens to ordinary people when war arrives on their doorstep. A scholar of modern France and the Second World War, he earned his Ph.D. in History from Mississippi State University in 2021 and focuses on how wartime requisitions affected French civilians. His manuscript, Taking France: Requisitions, Occupation, and Citizenship in World War II, is under contract with the University Press of Kansas. In 2025 he contributed a chapter to Shots in the Dark: Experimentation, Success, and Failure in World War II, and he has appeared in the documentary series World War II with Tom Hanks and World War II Battles in Color. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times and War on the Rocks.
Cameron is one of the Command and General Staff College faculty who bring the College’s scholarship to SPARK, giving our members a closer look at the military history being studied just up the road at Fort Leavenworth. We’re delighted to have him in the classroom this Winter. Hint: he will be teaching on France!
