Dr William Westerman serves as an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. His academic background includes a PhD from UNSW Canberra completed in 2014, with a thesis titled Soldiers and Gentlemen: Australian Battalion Commanders in the Great War, 1914-1918, which was published as a book by Cambridge University Press in 2017. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours in History from the University of Melbourne. Westerman's research specializations encompass Australian military history, First World War studies, and contemporary warfare. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Westerman's career history features appointments as an ANU Teaching Fellow at the Australian Command and Staff College in Canberra and as a researcher on the Official History of Australian Operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and East Timor at the Australian War Memorial. He authored the Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq, 2003-2011, and co-authored the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping Operations in Timor-Leste, 2000-2012. His major publications include Soldiers and Gentlemen: Australian Battalion Commanders in the Great War, 1914-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), The Battle of Broodseinde Ridge 1917 (Big Sky Publishing, 2018), and as editor of Clash of the Gods of War: Australian Artillery and the Firepower Lessons of the Great War (Big Sky Publishing, 2020). He has contributed book chapters such as 'Military Education: Establishing the Diploma of Military Science, 1907-1915' in Beyond Combat: Australian Military Activity Away From the Battlefield (UNSW Press, 2018) and journal articles including 'More than a mere footnote: the department of military studies, University of Sydney, 1907-1915' in History of Education (2020) and 'Entry by Air and Sea' in Australian Army Journal (2023). Westerman has delivered conference presentations at events like the International Society for First World War Studies conference in 2018 and UNSW Canberra's Beyond Combat conference in 2017. His scholarship has advanced understandings of Australian military leadership, artillery tactics, and professional military education during key historical periods.

Professional Email: w.westerman@adfa.edu.au