Addie Jensen is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studies Twentieth Century U.S. Foreign Relations under the direction of Salim Yaqub. Her dissertation, “Blowing in the Wind: Media, Counterculture, and the American Military in Vietnam,” examines and analyzes the intersections of foreign policy, media, and popular culture by situating the experiences of American servicemembers during the Vietnam War alongside the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. It explores the various mediums through which news of social and racial justice movements reached men and women of diverse racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds serving in Vietnam, and how these movements influenced the troops’ attitudes towards the war and their return to American society. Addie’s work has been funded by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation, UCSB’s Chicano Studies Institute, and the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, among other institutions. She received her BA in History and English from the University of San Diego in 2014.