Episode 173 - Thomas Lecaque, PhD.

Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Thomas Lecaque, PhD.

Thomas is a dual citizen, France and the United States. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Paris, France, and spent the first two years of his life in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, where his parents were professors at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius. They moved to the U.S. when Thomas was two, and he grew up in Kirksville, Missouri, where his parents were professors at Truman State University. In high school, Thomas was in choir and theater, and his passion for musicals has never waned. Thomas met Tommy the summer after his senior year of high school, when they were both in a community theater production of Pippin. Thomas started his undergraduate career as a theater major at Tulane University in New Orleans. He left in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina and transferred to Truman State University, where he completed his bachelor's in history in 2007 and got married to his wife Annie a month later. They did a master's program in English together at Truman. Thomas started his Ph.D. program in medieval history at the University of Tennessee eight weeks later. He graduated in 2015, and taught at UTK for a year. He then taught at SUNY-Orange, a community college in downstate New York for a year. Since 2017 he has been an assistant professor of history at Grand View University in Iowa. He and Annie live in the Des Moines metro area with their four kids, three boys and a girl. In addition to teaching a wide range of history classes and an annual class on video games and history, Thomas has started doing community theater again (well, was pre-pandemic) and has indulged in the great Iowan past time of national politics, now writing occasional public history and commentary pieces for places like The Washington Post, Foreign Policy and The Bulwark.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tlecaque

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