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Dr. Ostwald is an expert on Early Modern European History, focusing on the age of Louis XIV (17th-18th centuries) in western Europe. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Early Modern European History from The Ohio State University.
Dr. Ostwald is in charge of the History department’s growing Digital History curriculum, offering students the opportunity to conduct digital historical research on a variety of topics
Vauban under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. Winner of the 2009 Society for Military History Best Book Award in Non-American History
“Creating the British Way of War: English Strategy in the War of the Spanish Succession.” In Successful Strategies: Triumphing in War and Peace from Antiquity to the Present, edited by Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich, 100–129. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014
“Marlborough and Siege Warfare.” In Marlborough: Soldier and Diplomat, edited by John B. Hattendorf, Augustus J. Veenendaal, and Rolof van Hovell tot Westerflier, 122–43. Rotterdam: Karwansaray BV, 2012
“Popular English Perceptions of Louis XIV’s Way of War.” In Louis XIV Outside in: Images of the Sun King Beyond France, 1661-1715, edited by Tony Claydon and Charles-Edouard Levillain, 93–110. Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2015
“The ‘Decisive’ Battle of Ramillies, 1706: Prerequisites for Decisiveness in Early Modern Warfare.” Journal of Military History 64 (2000): 649–77