Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Taylor Howard grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and attended North Carolina State University where he earned his BA in history. After graduation, he joined the United States Marine Corps. During his enlistment, Taylor served as an infantry rifleman with 1st Battalion, 8th Marines and later transferred to Wounded Warrior Battalion East. There he represented Team Marine Corps in the 2022 Warrior Games. Teaching, learning, and history are his passions. After the completion of his MA program, Taylor intends to continue on to a history PhD program. When not haunting his office in Leconte Hall, Taylor spends his free time lifting weights at the gym, playing video games in his apartment, riding his motorcycle around Athens, and enjoying the local scene with friends downtown. Research Research Areas: Europe-Modern Russia and Soviet history War and Diplomacy Transnational U.S. 19th & 20th Century Research Interests: At the University of Georgia, Taylor is currently conducting research to examine the relationship between the German Democratic Republic's Stasi and the Red Army Faction, a Marxist terror group that operated primarily in the Federal Republic of Germany. Degree Completion Date: Thu, 05/08/2025 - 12:00pm Education Education: Taylor graduated from North Carolina State University in 2019 with a BA in history and minors in German and naval science. There he completed his honors thesis "Nudging the Bear: The Soviet KGB, the East German Stasi, and the American Nuclear Threat 1981-1989" under the advising of Dr. Daniel P. Bolger.
