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Wayne H. Bowen is Professor of History and Interim Dean for the College of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Central Florida. His administrative role includes responsibility for the General Education Program, undergraduate policies, Dual Enrollment and other university-wide tasks related to the undergraduate experience. Bowen received a B.A. in History from the University of Southern California, a M.A. and Ph.D. in European History from Northwestern University, and a Master’s in Strategic Studies from the US Army War College. He is a specialist on modern Spain, focused on the era of the Franco dictatorship. Bowen is the author of ten books, six of them on Spanish history, from the early modern era to the Cold War. He has also published more than two dozen articles in academic journals, with subjects including the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Great Power relations since 1800. His articles have been published in ten countries, translated into Spanish, Polish, French, and Turkish. Bowen is currently finishing a contracted book on Spanish workers in Nazi Germany and conducting research for a subsequent monograph on relations between the Spanish and Ottoman Empires from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Bowen is also a retired Colonel in the US Army Reserve, with service in Iraq and with NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovina.