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Michael McGuire’s research considers how American non-state actors affected American foreign relations. He is currently transforming his dissertation into a book manuscript entitled Hidden Transformations. It explores how five American aid societies helped 150,000 French civilians dynamically recover from World War I. Dr. McGuire’s work explains why the transformative labors of over 1,000 volunteers in these five relief agencies has remained ‘hidden’ from the broader contours of national, international, and transnational histories of the Great War Era (1914-1929). Since obtaining his Ph.D. in History from Boston University in 2012, Dr. McGuire has maintained an active publication and presentation agenda. He has repeatedly lectured on facets of Americans’ Great War Era humanitarianism at the annual conferences of the Society for French Historical Studies (SFHS), the Western Society for French History (WSFH), and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). He has published two articles on ‘hidden’ American transformations of northeastern France in First World War Studies and Pour mémoire. Dr. McGuire will soon publish a third exposé on wartime American humanitarianism in Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques.