Bailey is currently a Foundation Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, where she teaches in the department of history and directs the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies, which she founded[1] in 2015.
Bailey was born in Atlanta on December 29, 1957, and raised in Smyrna, Georgia.
In high school, she was first clarinetist in the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra and a member of the Emory Wind Ensemble.
Bailey’s research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and she has twice received the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award.
Bailey was elected to the Society of American Historians in 2017, and has given talks or been a visiting scholar in Australia, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UK.