Brad West is an Associate Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the Social Relationships and Communities research concentration at Adelaide University. Working largely within intellectual traditions that focus on meaning-making dynamics, he is a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University and was previously the co-President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Sociological Theory (2018-2023). His book Finding Gallipoli: Battlefield Remembrance and the Movement of Australian and Turkish History was awarded the 2024 Steven Crook Memorial Prize for the best authored book in Australian Sociology.  In recent years his work has concerned the development of a 'strong' research program on the interconnections between the military, security and the civil sphere. This has included research and publications on variance in military culture, the civil-military gap as it relates to neoliberalism, the politics of commemorating twenty-first century military campaigns and service, and influence and mis/disinformation.  He is co-founder of the Military Organisation and Culture Studies Group, an institution focussed on raising the profile and capacity of Australian research on military organisation.