Keith Huxen is the Korean War Oral History Project Director at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation in support of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. His work promotes the agency’s mission to locate, identify, and recover the remains of fallen American service members from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and Middle Eastern wars. He received an MPhil in American Diplomatic History and a PhD in American History from George Washington University.

Previously, Keith was the Senior Director of Research and History in the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at The National WWII Museum. He was responsible for creating historical exhibits and galleries, including the US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center; the Road to Berlin and Road to Tokyo galleries in the Campaigns of Courage: European and Pacific Theaters pavilion; and the Arsenal of Democracy exhibit galleries. He also curated the traveling exhibit Manufacturing Victory, devoted to the industrial effort on the American home front. He has led World War II tours or lectured abroad in England, France, Germany, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, and China.

Keith has taught at Arizona State University, Louisiana State University, and the University of New Orleans. His specialties include American economic and diplomatic history, modern European history, and 20th-century international history. He has published in academic journals ranging from the Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table to Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals and appeared in TIME magazine, USA TODAY, and The Washington Post.