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Dr. Michael E. Lynch is a research historian and assistant professor at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. As a research historian, Dr. Lynch conducts and supervises research for senior Army leaders on contemporary issues to provide insight and historical context. He deployed to Iraq in 2017 to collect on the division headquarters during Operation Inherent Resolve. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Temple University, a Graduate Certificate in Public History from Shippensburg University, a Master of Arts in History from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from East Tennessee State University. Dr. Lynch is also a retired U.S. Army officer, and served at Fort Lee, VA; Fort Benning, GA; Fort Ord, CA; Fort Lewis, WA; Carlisle Barracks, PA, and Butzbach, Frankfurt, Schwetzingen, and Heidelberg Germany.

His book, Edward M. Almond and the US Army: From the 92nd Infantry Division to X Corps (University Press of Kentucky, 2019), was awarded the 2019 Distinguished Writing Award for Biography from the Army Historical Foundation. Dr. Lynch also contributed chapters to Drawdown: The Liberty Dilemma ed. Jason Warren (NYU Press, 2016) and Black History of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, 1860-1936 ed. Steven Burg (Shippensburg, PA: Shippensburg University Press, 2005).