Mark Choate

Mark I. Choate
Awards	Howard R. Marraro Prize (2009)
Academic background
Alma mater	Yale University (Bachelor of Arts) Yale University (Master of Arts) Yale University (Master of Philosophy) Yale University (Ph.D.) U.S. Army War College (Master of Security Studies) United States Army Command and General Staff College
Thesis	Defining “Greater Italy”: Migration and Colonialism in Africa and the Americas, 1880-1915 (2002)
Doctoral advisor	Frank M. Snowden III
Other advisors	Paul Kennedy, John M. Merriman, Geoffrey Parker (historian), Linda Colley
Academic work
Notable students	Amy Reeder
Main interests	International relations Military history
Notable works	Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad (2008)
Notable ideas	Emigrant colonialism

Mark Irvan Choate FRHistS is an American academic and retired colonel and diplomat. He is a history professor at Brigham Young University and adjunct research professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, specializing in international relations, the history of migration and colonialism, and grand strategy. He emphasizes the relationships between international emigration, immigration, and colonialism, and transnational influences in the fields of diplomacy, trade, currency exchange, and military power.

Early life

After living in Pago Pago, American Samoa, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a child, Choate grew up in rural Osage County, Oklahoma, and graduated from Charles Page High School in Sand Springs. While a freshman at Yale College, he enlisted as a medic in the 179th Infantry Regiment (United States), Army National Guard, using the G.I. Bill to help pay for school.

Fellowships and memberships

He has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2008, and a fellow of the Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea since 2009. He was a visiting fellow at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales at Sciences Po, Paris, in 2014–2015.

Awards and Distinctions

2017: Daniel M. Lewin Cyber-Terrorism Technology Writing Award, U.S. Army War College
2009: Howard R. Marraro Prize
2010: Council for European Studies Book Award
2010: BYU Class of 1949 Young Faculty Award teaching prize
2002: Hans W. Gatzke Prize, Yale University
1998-1999: Fulbright Fellow in Italy

Military service

Allegiance	United States of America
Branch	United States Army
Rank	File:US-O6 insignia.svg Colonel
Conflicts	War in Afghanistan Insurgency in the Maghreb
Awards	Bronze Star Legion of Merit Defense Meritorious Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal

Choate enlisted in 1989 as a Private first class in the Oklahoma National Guard. He completed basic training at Fort Jackson and advanced individual training as a medic at Fort Sam Houston. Choate ended his enlistment at the rank of staff sergeant upon being commissioned as a mustang officer through Officer Candidate School in 1994.

As a United States defense attaché, he served in United States embassies in Khartoum, Sudan; Bangui, Central African Republic; and N'Djamena, Chad.

Dates of rank

Promotions

Rank	Date
File:US-OF1B.svg Second Lieutenant	1994
File:US-O2 insignia.svg First Lieutenant	1997
File:US-O3 insignia.svg Captain	2001
File:US-O4 insignia.svg Major	2007
File:US-O5 insignia.svg Lieutenant Colonel	2013
File:US-O6 insignia.svg Colonel	2018

Decorations and badges

Choate's decorations and badges include the following:

U.S. military decorations
File:Legion of Merit ribbon.svg	Legion of Merit
File:Bronze Star Medal ribbon.svg	Bronze Star
Bronze oak leaf cluster File:Defense Meritorious Service Medal ribbon.svg	Defense Meritorious Service Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster)
File:Meritorious Service Medal ribbon.svg	Meritorious Service Medal
Bronze oak leaf cluster File:Joint Service Commendation Medal ribbon.svg	Joint Service Commendation Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster)
Bronze oak leaf cluster Bronze oak leaf cluster Bronze oak leaf cluster File:Army Commendation Medal ribbon.svg	Army Commendation Medal (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters)
Bronze oak leaf cluster Bronze oak leaf cluster File:Army Achievement Medal ribbon.svg	Army Achievement Medal (with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters)
U.S. unit awards
Bronze oak leaf cluster File:Joint Meritorious Unit Award ribbon.svg	Joint Meritorious Unit Award (with Oak Leaf Cluster)
U.S. service (campaign) medals and service and training ribbons
File:Army Reserve Achievement ribbon.svg	Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal (with Silver and 4 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters)
File:National Defense Service Medal ribbon, 2nd award.svg	National Defense Service Medal (with 1 Service star)
File:Afghanistan Campaign Medal ribbon, 1st award.svg	Afghanistan Campaign Medal (with 1 Service Star)
File:Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal ribbon.svg	Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
File:Global War on Terrorism Service Medal ribbon.svg	Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
File:Armed Forces Service Medal ribbon.svg	Armed Forces Service Medal
File:AFRM with Hourglass Device (Gold).jpg	Armed Forces Reserve Medal with Gold Hourglass and "M" Devices
File:Army Service Ribbon.svg	Army Service Ribbon
File:Army Overseas Service Ribbon.svgFile:Award numeral 2.png	Army Overseas Service Ribbon (with award numeral 2)
File:Army Reserve Overseas Training Ribbon.svgFile:Award numeral 6.png	Army Reserve Component Overseas Service Ribbon (with award numeral 6)
International decorations
File:NATO Medal ribbon (Non-Article 5).svg	NATO Medal for ISAF Afghanistan Operation Enduring Freedom XVI
File:German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency.jpg	German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency Gold

U.S. badges, patches and tabs
File:United States Army Staff Identification Badge.png	Army Staff Identification Badge
File:US Army Special Forces SSI.png	Special Forces (United States Army), 3rd Special Forces Group (United States) worn as his Combat Service Identification Badge
File:179 Inf Rgt DUI.png	179th Infantry Regiment Distinctive Unit Insignia
File:ArmyOSB.jpg	1 Overseas Service Bar

Works

• Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad (Harvard University Press, 2008)
• Italianos no mundo: uma nação emigrante (Contexto, 2023, translated by João Fábio Bertonha)
• “Liberal Economics or Racial Exclusion: Competing Political and Cultural Narratives in Italian-American Transatlantic Migration,” in “Managing Migration in Italy and the United States” (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2024)
• “Emigrazione italiana, rimesse e ascesa del « made in Italy »,” in “Storia degli italoamericani” (Milan: Le Monnier Mondadori, 2019)
• "Italian Emigration, Remittances, and the Rise of Made-in-Italy,” in “The Routledge History of the Italian Americans” (New York/London: Routledge, 2018)
• “The Frontier Thesis in Transnational Migration: The U.S. West in the Making of Italy Abroad,” in “Immigrants in the Far West: Historical Identities and Experiences” (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015)
• "New Dynamics and New Imperial Powers, 1876-1905," in The Routledge History of Western Empires (Oxford/New York: Routledge, 2014)
• "National Communications for a Transnational Community: Italy's promotion of italianità among emigrants, 1870-1920," in Transnational Political Spaces: Agents - Structures - Encounters (Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2009)