A native of Upstate SC, Brian K. Feltman is a Professor of History at Georgia Southern University. He specializes in the history of the World Wars, Modern Germany, and the Holocaust. He completed his BA (Secondary Education) and MA (History) at Clemson University and earned a Ph.D in Modern European History from The Ohio State University. Before arriving at Georgia Southern in 2012, he was an Instructor at Wright State University in Dayton, OH. In 2010-11, he was the Thyssen-Heideking Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universität zu Köln in Cologne, Germany. 

His first book, The Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War and Beyond received the Society for Military History's Edward M. Coffman First Manuscript Prize. In 2022 he co-edited Prisoners of War and Local Women in Europe and the United States, 1914-1956: Consorting with the Enemy, with Matthias Reiss (Palgrave). His articles have appeared in War and History, The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, and Gender & History. His work has been funded by the German Academic Exchange (DAAD) the German Historical Institute, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and Georgia Humanities. He has presented his research to academic audiences nearly a dozen countries. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Feltman's current book project, Sacrifice on Display: The Visual and Material Culture of Everyday Remembrance in Germany, 1914-1933 examines the visual and material culture of death and mourning in Germany from 1914-1945. He is also researching the history of Bulloch County, GA's African American veterans of the First World War. H eis the co-host, along with his colleague William T. Allison, of the Military Historians are People, Too! podcast.