Dr. Caleb Karges
Dean of Students
Associate Professor of Humanities
Doctor of Philosophy, University of St Andrews
Research Interests
Military History • Diplomatic History • British History • Austrian History • Early Modern Europe, Alliances • Prisoners of War
Dr. Caleb Karges serves as the Dean of Students and Associate Professor of Humanities at Luther Classical College. He brings over a decade of experience in scholarship, teaching, and student life in Lutheran higher education. He received his Ph.D. in Modern History from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) in 2016. Specializing in European diplomatic and military history, Dr. Karges also relishes the opportunity provided by Luther Classical College to teach broadly and to connect ideas across disciplines in the way that only a liberal arts education can. His dedication to these principles won him the recognition from the student body of Concordia University Irvine as the 2019 CUI Bono? Professor of the Year. Dr. Karges and his wife Jennifer have five children. They enjoy travel, spending time outdoors, and opening their home to students.
Courses Taught at LCC
- LAW 100 Principles of Civil Government
- HIS 121 Ancient Greece
- HIS 132 Republican and Imperial Rome
- HUM 241 Early Medieval Worldviews
- HUM 242 Late Medieval Worldviews
Academic Publications and Presentations
Popular Publications and Media Appearances
Awards and Grants
Academic Publications and Presentations
- Books
- (Working Manuscript) A New Mediterranean Order: The Spanish Succession, the Austrian Alliance and the Foundations of Britain’s Naval Supremacy.
- (Forthcoming) The War of the Spanish Succession: The Violent Reordering of Europe into the Modern World. London: Reaktion, 2025.
- Journal Articles
- (Working Manuscript) “Use and Abuse of Captives: The treatment of prisoners of war in the early eighteenth century”
- “Britain, Austria, and the “Burden of War” in the Western Mediterranean, 1703-1708,” International Journal of Military History and Historiography 39 (2019).
- Book Chapter
- “The Logistics of the Allied War Effort in the Mediterranean,” in Der Spanische Erbfolgekrieg (1701-1714) und seine Auswirkungen, edited by Katharina Arnegger, Leopold Auer, Friedrich Edelmayer, and Thomas Just (Vienna: Studienverlag, 2018).
- Reference Works
- “Prince Eugene of Savoy.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Military History. Ed. Kaushik Roy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
- “John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Military History. Ed. Kaushik Roy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- “War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Military History. Ed. Kaushik Roy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Conference Proceedings
- “Looking at the Individual’s Role in History through Joseph Roth’s The Emperor’s Tomb” in Tradition and Renewal: Continuity and Change in Core Texts and the Liberal Arts, edited by Tuan Hoang and Daniel Nuckols (2021).
- Book Reviews
- “The Habsburg Mediterranean, 1500–1800. Edited by Stefan Hanß and Dorothea McEwan. Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2021. ISBN 978-3-7001-8809-4.” Mediterranean Historical Review (2023).
- “Revolt in the Netherlands: The Eighty Years War, 1568-1648. By Anton van der Lem. Translation by Anthony Brown. London: Reaktion Books, 2018. Pp. 8, 271. ISBN 978-789140866.” Michigan War Studies Review (2022).
- “England and Spain in the Early Modern Era: Royal Love, Diplomacy, Trade, and Naval Relations, 1604-25. By Óscar Alfredo Ruiz Fernández. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-1784531171.” Journal of Military History 85 (2021).
- “Military Strategy: A Global History. By Jeremy Black. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. vii, 306. ISBN 978-0-300-21718-6.” Michigan War Studies Review (2021).
- “The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815. Third Edition. By Charles Ingrao. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. vii, 310. ISBN 978-1108499255.” Austrian History Yearbook 51 (2021).
- “Marlborough’s Other Army: The British Army and the Campaigns of the First Peninsular War, 1702–1712. By Nicholas Dorrell. Solihull, UK: Helion and Company, 2015. Pp. vi, 186. ISBN 978-1910294635.” Michigan War Studies Review (2020).
- “The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire. By A. Wess Mitchell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. xiv + 403 pp.£27.00 boards. ISBN 978 0 691 17670 3.” War In History 27 (2020).
- “Karges on Kling, ‘Great Northern War Compendium,’” H-War, H-Net Reviews. January 2018. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=49893.
- Invited Talks
- “Prisoners of War: The transnational debris of international conflict in the age of Louis XIV” at the École supérieure d’études internationals, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada, 15 November 2023.
- “Use and Abuse of Captives: The treatment of prisoners of war in the early eighteenth century” at the University of Saskatchewan Department of History, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 3 November 2023.
- “Creating a Cooperative Relationship: The Austro-British Alliance, 1701-1703” at The Center for Austrian Studies Seminar Fellows Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 30 November-2 December 2017.
- “Britain, Austria, and the Conduct of Alliance Warfare in the War of the Spanish Succession” at The 43rd International Congress of Military History, Douala, Cameroon, 2-8 September 2017.
- Conference Papers
- “Placing Florida in the Grand Strategies of the Belligerents of the War of the Spanish Succession” at Global and Local Perspectives on Military History Scholarly Conference, Moline, Illinois 14-16 April 2023.
- “Attrition, Exhaustion, or Annihilation? The War for Florida in the Spanish Succession” at The Society for Military History Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, 23-26 March, 2023
- “Mismanaging War: Neapelpolitik, the English Alliance, and the Origins of the Rakoczi Revolt, 1701-3” at The Austrian Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 12-15 April 2022.
- “Exploring New Possibilities: Anglo-Austrian Relations in the Nine Years War” at The British International History Group 31st Annual Conference, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 5-7 September 2019.
- “Great Britain and Prisoners of War in the Spanish Succession” at The Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, 9-12 May 2019.
- “Teaching about the individual’s role in history through Roth’s The Emperor’s Tomb” at The Association for Core Texts and Courses Twenty-Second Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 14-17 April 2016.
- “Misunderstanding and Vested Interest: The Austrian Court’s Madness for Naples, 1701-1703” at College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Symposium, University of Nevada Reno, Nevada 26-28 February 2015.
- “An Entrepot of the Fiscal-Military State: The Republic of Genoa and the Austro-British War Effort in the Western Mediterranean” at the British Fiscal Military States, 1660-1783, Jesus College, Oxford, United Kingdom 16-18 September 2013.
- “A Victim of Circumstance? A reassessment of Heinrich Mansfeld’s tenure as Hofkriegsrat president 1701-1703″ at the University of Aberdeen and the University of St Andrews Joint Annual Postgraduate History Conference, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom May 2013.
- “A Comparison of the British and Austrian officer corps, 1680-1714” at the University of Aberdeen and the University of St Andrews Joint Annual Postgraduate History Conference, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom May 2012 .
Popular Publications and Media Appearances
- Podcasts
- Host of The History Suite, an arm of the CUI Bono Podcast, January 2019 to December 2021.
- Interviews and Appearances
- Military Historian, “Red Eagle: Assault on Oliveto” documentary by Native American Film Initiative, released 26 August 2026.
- “On the Road at the 2023 SMH” interview on the podcast A Confused Heap of Facts, released 15 April 2023.
- “A Man Named Martin – Part 3: The Movement” documentary by Lutheran Hour Ministries, released Summer 2017.
- “Episode 56: Christians and War” roundtable discussion on the Thinking Fellows Podcast, released 17 February 2017.
- “Ep. 159 Why Do the Nations Rage? With Dr. Caleb Karges” interview on the podcast Virtue in the Wasteland, released 18 January 2016.
Awards and Grants
- 2023
- Fulbright Canada Research Chair in International Studies at Université Laval, Fulbright Canada.
- 2022
- Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Canadian Department of Defence
- Collaborator on multi-year project entitled “Taking Care of Captives: Moral decision making, military virtue, and the welfare of prisoners in eighteenth century warfare” with principal investigator Matthew Neufeld (University of Saskatchewan) and collaborator Sabine Jesner (Universität Graz).
- Faculty Research Grant, Concordia University Irvine
- 2020
- Faculty Research Grant, Concordia University Irvine
- 2019
- CUI Bono? Professor of the Year, Concordia University Irvine
- 2018
- Travel and Research Grant, Central European History Society
- Faculty Research Grant, Concordia University Irvine
- 2017
- André Corvisier Prize for PhD Theses on Military History, International Commission of Military History
- Faculty Research Grant, Concordia University Irvine
Education
PhD | University of St Andrews | Modern History | 2016
MLitt | University of St Andrews | Moden History | 2010
BA | Concordia University Irvine | History | 2009
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