Air War College. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, where he won the 2014-15 Barnes F. Lathrop Prize for the best dissertation written in the Department of History. Dr. McNeil’s research focuses on the United States and the world with an emphasis on the challenges that humanitarianism and decolonization posed for American foreign policy during the second half of the twentieth century. His topics of expertise include U.S. foreign relations and American society, humanitarianism, decolonization, and globalization.