Christopher Snyder, Dean of the Honors College and Professor of History, has been named an Affiliated Faculty Member in the Globalising and Localising the Great War Programme at the University of Oxford (http://greatwar.modhist.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=1317).  He will be conducting research at Oxford in May and June 2015 for his next book, Gatsby's Oxford: Americans in the City of Dreaming Spires.  He will be concentrating on the experiences of Mississippi State's first Rhodes Scholar, Major William M. Rogers, both in combat and during the time he spent before and after the war at Oxford.