User:Stvstein

Stephen Stein is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Memphis and has taught the U.S. Naval War College's course in Strategy since 2000. Stephen K. Stein is a specialist in naval history and the history of technology who has written on topics ranging from ancient battles to aviation to the iPod. His recent publications include The Sea in World History: Exploration, Travel, and Trade; From Torpedoes to Aviation: Washington Irving Chambers and Technological Innovation in the New Navy, 1877-1913; "The Greely Relief Expedition and the New Navy" in International Journal of Naval History 5 (December 2006), which won the Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller Prize in Naval History; "The Experimental Era: U.S. Naval Aviation through 1916" in One Hundred Years of Navy Air Power; and "Interventions in Asia, 1899-1927" in A Companion to American Military History. Further interests include the history of sexuality about which he's written: Twenty-Five Years of Living in Leather: The National Leather Association, 1986-2011 (Adynaton, 2012, ISBN 978-0985900403) and Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States: Kinky People Unite (Routledge, 2021, ISBN 978-0367476809).

He maintains the Washington Irving Chambers page on Wikipedia and contributes to other pages.