ANDREW L. JOHNS
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
DAVID M. KENNEDY CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
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EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA (1993-2000)
Ph.D., History [U.S. foreign relations], December 2000
M.A., History [United States], June 1995
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT (1990-1992)
B.A., magna cum laude, History, August 1992
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ (1986-1987, 1990)
APPOINTMENTS
Brigham Young University
Associate Professor, Department of History, 2011-present
Assistant Professor, Department of History, 2004-2011
Gonzaga University
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, 2004
Antelope Valley College
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2003
California State University, Northridge
Lecturer, Department of History, 2003
University of California, Santa Barbara
Lecturer, Department of History, 2001
Santa Barbara City College
Lecturer, Department of History and Geography, 2000
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RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Books
1972: A Global History. In preparation.
In the Eye of the Storm: John Sherman Cooper and the Cold War, 1946-1976 (Lexington, KY:
University Press of Kentucky, Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace Series). Under contract, in
preparation.
Loyalty, Principle, and Politics: Hubert Humphrey’s Vietnam Conflict, 1964-1968 (Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., Vietnam: America in the War Years Series). Under contract, in preparation.
Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War (Lexington, KY:
University Press of Kentucky, cloth, 2010; paper, 2012).
Edited volumes
The “Tocqueville Oscillation”: Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1945, edited with
Mitchell Lerner. Manuscript under review with the University Press of Kentucky, Studies in Conflict,
Diplomacy, and Peace Series.
A Companion to Ronald Reagan (Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Wiley Blackwell Companions
to American History Series, 2015).
Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945, edited with Heather L.
Dichter (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace Book
Series, 2014).
The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War, edited with
Kathryn C. Statler (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., The Harvard Cold War Studies Book
Series, 2006).
Journal articles
“A Cassandra from Somerset: John Sherman Cooper, the Republican Party, and the Vietnam War,”
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society; commissioned by journal editors for special edition of the
journal on “Opposition to War in Kentucky History” and in preparation.
“Raising the Stakes: Poker, Richard Nixon’s Madman Theory, and the American Style of Rhetorical
Diplomacy,” in preparation for submission to Presidential Studies Quarterly.
“The Diplomacy of Quiet Candor: John Sherman Cooper’s Tenure as Ambassador to India, 1955-1956,”
in preparation for submission to Journal of Cold War Studies.
“The Expanding Universe Theory: A Historiographical Review of the Vietnam War,” Diplomatic
History; commissioned by journal editors and in preparation.
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“The Johnson Administration, the Shah of Iran, and the Changing Pattern of U.S.-Iranian Relations:
‘Tired of Being Treated Like a Schoolboy,’” Journal of Cold War Studies 9/2 (Spring 2007), 64-94.
“Doves Among Hawks: Republican Opposition to the War in Vietnam, 1964-1968,” Peace & Change
31/4 (October 2006), 585-628.
“Achilles’ Heel: The Vietnam War and George Romney’s Bid for the Presidency, 1967 to 1968,”
Michigan Historical Review 26/1 (Spring 2000), 1-29.
*Winner, Michigan Historical Review National Essay Prize, 1999
“A Voice from the Wilderness: Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, 1964-1966,” Presidential Studies
Quarterly 29/2 (Spring 1999), 317-335.
“Opening Pandora’s Box: The Genesis and Evolution of the 1964 Congressional Resolution on
Vietnam,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 6/2-3 (Summer-Fall 1997), 175-206.
Book chapters
“Janus, Tocqueville, and the World: The Nexus of Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy,” in
Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell Lerner, eds., The “Tocqueville Oscillation”: Domestic Politics and U.S.
Foreign Policy in the 20th Century, manuscript under review with the University Press of Kentucky.
“‘To Grasp and Hold a Vision’: Ronald Reagan in Historical Perspective,” in Andrew L. Johns, ed., A
Companion to Ronald Reagan (Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Wiley Blackwell Companions to
American History Series, 2015), 1-6.
“Competing in the Global Arena: Sport and Foreign Relations since 1945,” in Heather L. Dichter and
Andrew L. Johns, eds., Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945
(Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace Book Series,
2014), 1-15.
“The Legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson,” in Mitchell Lerner, ed., A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson
(Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Blackwell Companions to American History Series, 2012), 504519.
“Hail to the Salesman in Chief: Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, and the Presidency,” in Kenneth
Osgood and Andrew K. Frank, eds., Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in
the American Century (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2010), 1-17.
Review articles
“Partners in Power,” review essay on Roham Alvandi, Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United
States and Iran in the Cold War (2014) [Roundtable participants: Malcolm Byrne, Anoush Ehteshami,
W. Taylor Fain, and Andrew L. Johns; author’s response by Roham Alvandi], H-Diplo Roundtable
Review 16/30 (July 2015).
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“The Bad News is There is No Good News,” review essay on Walter Hixson, The Myth of American
Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy (2008) [Roundtable participants: Christopher
Endy, Andrew L. Johns, and Naoko Shibusawa; author’s response by Walter Hixson], Passport: The
Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 39/3 (January 2009), 6-9.
“Choosing Diem,” review essay on Seth Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem,
Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia (2004) [Roundtable participants: James Carter,
Andrew L. Johns, Thomas R. Maddux, Edward Miller, Joseph G. Morgan; author’s response by Seth
Jacobs], H-Diplo Roundtable Review 8/6 (June 2007).
“Fighting Words,” review article on Chris Tudda, The Truth is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy
of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles (2006), Reviews in American History 35/2 (June 2007),
273-283.
Book reviews
Review of Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini, eds., Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States,
and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War (2013), Journal of American History 101/2 (September
2014), 673-674.
Review of J.C.A. Stagg, The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent (2012), Canadian Journal of
History/Annales Canadiennes de Histoire 49/1 (Spring/Summer 2014), 129-130.
Review of Michael Bowen, The Roots of Modern Conservatism: Dewey, Taft, and the Battle for the Soul
of the Republican Party (2011), Journal of American Studies 46/4 (November 2012), E70.
Review of Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment
(2010), Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes de Histoire 47/2 (Fall 2012), 457-459.
Review of Eugenie M. Blang, Allies at Odds: America, Europe, and Vietnam, 1961-1968 (2011),
American Historical Review 116/5 (December 2011), 1453-1454.
Review of Richard H. Immerman, Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from
Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz (2010), Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes de
Histoire 46/2 (Fall 2011), 409-411.
Review of W. Taylor Fain, American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region (2008),
Journal of Cold War Studies 13/4 (Fall 2011), 217-218.
Review of Colin Dueck, Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II
(2010), Journal of American History 98/2 (September 2011), 597-598.
Review of Timothy Stanley, Kennedy vs. Carter: The 1980 Battle for the Democratic Party’s Soul
(2010), Journal of American Studies 45/3 (August 2011), 636-638.
Review of Julian E. Zelizer, Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security–From World War
II to the War on Terrorism (2009), Journal of Military History 74/4 (October 2010), 1328-1329.
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Review of James M. Carter, Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968
(2008), Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes de Histoire 44/2 (Fall 2009), 380-382.
Review of Guangqiu Xu, Congress and the U.S.-China Relationship, 1949-1979 (2007), Journal of
American History 94/4 (March 2008), 1315.
Review of Salim Yaqub, Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East
(2004), Journal of Cold War Studies 9/4 (Fall 2007), 147-149.
Review of Mark Moyar, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1945-1965 (2006), Canadian Journal of
History/Annales Canadiennes de Histoire 42/1 (Spring/Summer 2007), 160-163.
Review of John M. Shaw, The Cambodian Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America’s Vietnam War
(2005), Journal of American History 93/2 (September 2006), 610-611.
Review of Walter LaFeber, The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election (2005), Canadian
Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes de Histoire 41/1 (Spring/Summer 2006), 164-166.
Review of John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter, eds., Inside the Pentagon Papers (2004), Presidential
Studies Quarterly 35/3 (September 2005), 619-621.
Review of David L. Anderson, The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War (2002), Journal of Conflict
Studies 25/1 (Summer 2005), 185-186.
Review of Dale Bumpers, The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir (2003), Southwestern
Historical Quarterly 108/3 (January 2005), 418-419.
Review of Philip E. Catton, Diem’s Final Failure: Prelude to America’s War in Vietnam (2003), Pacific
Historical Review 73/1 (February 2004), 159-161.
Review of John Hagan, Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada (2001), Journal
of Cold War Studies 5/2 (Spring 2003), 86-89.
Review of Thomas Preston, The President and His Inner Circle: Leadership Style and the Advisory
Process in Foreign Affairs (2001), H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, December 2001.
Review of Paul Kengor, Wreath Layer or Policy Player: The Vice President’s Role in Foreign Affairs
(2000), H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, May 2001.
Review of Mitchell K. Hall, The Vietnam War (2000), H-War, H-Net Reviews, February 2001.
Review of Zachary Karabell, What’s College For?: The Struggle to Define American Higher Education
(1998), Perspectives 37/7 (October 1999), 45-46.
Review of Frank E. Vandiver, Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson’s Wars (1997) & James Morley
and Masashi Nishihara, eds., Vietnam Joins the World (1997), H-US-Japan, H-Net Reviews, October
1998.
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Reference essays
“George Ball,” “Barry Goldwater,” and “Walt Rostow,” in Ruud Van Dijk, William Glenn Gray,
Svetlana Savranskaya, Jeremi Suri, and Qiang Zhai, eds., Encyclopedia of the Cold War, 2 vols. (New
York: Routledge, 2008).
“Boland Amendments,” “Tet Offensive,” and “X Article,” in James Ciment, ed., Postwar America: An
Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History, 4 vols. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe,
Inc., 2007).
“J. William Fulbright,” “Green Berets,” “Pleiku incident,” “Southeast Asia Treaty Organization,” and
“Strategic hamlets,” in James I. Matray, ed., East Asia and the United States: An Encyclopedia of
Relations since 1784, 2 vols. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002).
“David Crockett,” “General George Armstrong Custer,” “Admiral George Dewey,” and “Admiral Alfred
Thayer Mahan,” in Elizabeth Marshall Dubrulle, ed., 19th Century American History (Santa Barbara, CA:
ABC-CLIO, 1998).
“General Edward Braddock,” “Silas Deane,” “Daniel Dulany, Jr.,” and “General Sir William Howe,” in
Elizabeth Marshall Dubrulle, ed., 18th Century American History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO,
1998).
Opinion & editorial columns
“The Last Word: Team SHAFR,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Review 47/3 (January 2017), 71.
“The Last Word: SHAFR and the Patriots’ Way,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations Review 46/3 (January 2016), 78-79.
“The Last Word: Things I Think,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Review 46/1 (April 2015), 59.
“The Last Word: Signs of the Apocalypse,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations Review 42/3 (January 2012), 43.
“Foreign Policy and the 2012 Presidential Election,” Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations web site [SHAFR.org], 6 June 2011.
“Back to the Shores of Tripoli,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations web site
[SHAFR.org], 23 March 2011.
“The War of Analogies over Egypt,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations web site
[SHAFR.org], 16 February 2011.
“WikiLeaks and the Diplomatic Historian,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations web
site [SHAFR.org], 29 December 2010.
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“Of Mice, Men, and Presidents,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations web site
[SHAFR.org], 29 December 2008.
“The Last Word: The Yoo-Cole Debate,” Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations 39/2 (September 2008), 79.
Other academic publications
Author’s response, roundtable on Andrew L. Johns, Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the
Republican Party, and the War (2010) [Roundtable participants: James M. Carter, Steven Casey, Joseph
A. Fry, and KC Johnson], H-Diplo/International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 1/4
(November 2010); cross-posted on H-War, 18 January 2011.
Editors’ response, with Kathryn C. Statler, roundtable on Kathryn C. Statler and Andrew L. Johns, eds.,
The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War (2006)
[Roundtable participants: Kenton Clymer, Brian Etheridge, Mary Ann Heiss, Thomas R. Maddux, and
Chris Tudda], H-Diplo Roundtable Review 8/2 (March 2007).
“Needles in the Haystacks: Using Congressional Collections in Foreign Relations Research,” The
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter 34/1 (March 2003), 1-7.
“The Emergence of an Anti-communist Consensus in the Early Cold War,” in History in Dispute,
Volume 2–American Social and Political Movements, 1945-2000: Pursuit of Liberty, Robert J. Allison,
ed. (Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2000): 204-208.
“Ten Steps toward a Successful Graduate Student Career,” Organization of American Historians
Newsletter 27/3 (August 1999), 17, 24.
“A Thriving Scene: Cold War History at U.C., Santa Barbara,” with Kenneth A. Osgood, The Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter 30/1 (March 1999), 1-7.
“Planning a Graduate Student Conference,” with Kenneth A. Osgood, Perspectives 37/3 (March 1999),
39-41.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Contested Legacy: Ronald Reagan’s Influence in Myth and Reality,” roundtable on “Reagan, IranContra, and Terrorism 30 Years Later,” Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association (PCBAHA), Northridge, CA, August 2017; panel co-sponsored by the Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations (SHAFR). With Kyle Longley, Chester Pach, Dustin Walcher, and Salim Yaqub.
“Reagan and the World: Legacy, Myth, and Memory,” roundtable on “Ronald Reagan’s Foreign Policy
at 35,” PCB-AHA conference, Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii, August 2016. With Chester Pach, Vanessa
Walker, and Dustin Walcher.
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“The Diplomacy of Quiet Candor: John Sherman Cooper’s Tenure as Ambassador to India, 1955-1956,”
American Historical Association (AHA) conference, New York, New York, January 2015; panel cosponsored by the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia (SAHSA).
“Quiet Candor in the Era of Détente: John Sherman Cooper’s Tenure as Ambassador to East Germany,
1974-1976, ” SHAFR conference, Lexington, Kentucky, June 2014; organized panel.
“Politics and Policy: Two Sides of the Same Coin?,” roundtable on “Policy History and Diplomatic
History: Together at Last?” Policy History conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 2014; co-organized panel;
panel co-sponsored by SHAFR. With William Hitchcock, Mitchell Lerner, Grant Madsen, and Robert
McMahon.
“The Role of Foreign Relations in U.S. Elections,” roundtable on “Domestic Politics and Foreign
Policy,” PCB-AHA conference, San Diego, California, August 2012; panel solicited by PCB-AHA
president and program committee chair and co-sponsored by SHAFR. With Kenneth Osgood, Chester
Pach, Dustin Walcher, and Thomas Zeiler.
“Politics, Diplomacy, and the Gipper,” roundtable on “Reconsidering Ronald Reagan and U.S. Foreign
Relations,” SHAFR conference, Hartford, Connecticut, June 2012; organized panel. With Jason Colby,
Jeremy Kuzmarov, Chester Pach, and Dustin Walcher.
“Elections, Partisan Politics, and U.S. Foreign Policy,” roundtable on “Not All Politics is Local:
Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations,” SHAFR conference, Alexandria, Virginia, June 2011.
With Campbell Craig, Andrew Falk, Andrew Johnstone, Ralph Levering, and Elizabeth Sanders.
“Two Fronts in Two Conflicts: Domestic Politics and War in Vietnam and Afghanistan,” roundtable on
“Vietnam and Afghanistan,” PCB-AHA conference, Santa Clara, California, August 2010; panel
solicited by PCB-AHA president and program committee chair and co-sponsored by SHAFR. With Kyle
Longley and David Schmitz.
“Accepting the ‘Invitation to Struggle’: Congress, the Vietnam War, and the Breakdown of the Cold
War Consensus,” AHA conference, San Diego, California, January 2010; panel co-sponsored by
SHAFR.
“Diplomacy of Quiet Candor: John Sherman Cooper’s Tenure as Ambassador to India, 1955-1956,”
SHAFR conference, Falls Church, Virginia, June 2009; organized panel.
“The Expanding Universe Theory: Six Trends in the Literature on Vietnam,” roundtable on “The State
of Historiography on the Second Indochina War,” PCB-AHA conference, Pasadena, California, August
2008; organized and moderated panel by invitation of the PCB-AHA program committee and presidentelect; panel co-sponsored by SHAFR. With David Anderson, Jessica Chapman, and Joseph A. Fry.
“Poker and the Rhetorical Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: A Reconsideration of Richard Nixon’s
Madman Theory,” Presidential Panel, Society for Military History (SMH) conference, Ogden, Utah,
April 2008; panel solicited by SMH president and conference organizers and co-sponsored by SHAFR.
“Raising the Stakes: Poker, Chess, and Richard Nixon’s Madman Theory Reconsidered,”SHAFR
conference, Chantilly, Virginia, June 2007; organized panel.
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“Breaking the 11th Commandment: Paul McCloskey, Richard Nixon, and Vietnam in the 1972
Presidential Election,” SHAFR conference, Lawrence, Kansas, June 2006.
“Tail Wagging the Dog: The Johnson Administration’s Policy Toward Iran and Lessons for the Bush
Administration,” conference on “Americans and the World: Foreign Relations, Immigration, and
Cultural Exchange in Historical Perspective,” sponsored by the Indiana Association of Historians,
Hanover, Indiana, February 2006.
“‘Tired of Being Treated Like a Schoolboy’: U.S.-Iranian Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam, 19651967,” SHAFR conference, College Park, Maryland, June 2005; organized panel. Panel selected by
conference program committee to serve as the plenary session for the conference.
“Doves Among Hawks: Republican Opposition to the War in Vietnam, 1964-1968,” SHAFR
conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2000; organized panel.
“Hawks, Doves, and Elephants: The Vietnam War and the 1968 Republican Presidential Nomination,”
PCB-AHA conference, Maui, Hawaii, August 1999; organized panel.
“‘Considerable Influence’: Eisenhower, the Republican Party, and the ‘Democrats’ War,’ 1960-1969,”
SHAFR conference, College Park, Maryland, June 1998.
“‘The Tocqueville Oscillation’: Domestic Politics and the 1964 Congressional Resolution on Vietnam,”
SHAFR conference, Boulder, Colorado, June 1996; organized panel.
“Taking the Next Step: Lyndon Johnson’s Decision to Pursue a Congressional Resolution on Vietnam,”
Cold War History Group conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 1996.
INVITED LECTURES
“Vietnam’s Second Front: The Nexus of Domestic Politics and Foreign Relations during America’s
Longest War,” Department of History, Binghamton University, SUNY, October 2013.
“Confronting the Hydra: Lyndon Johnson, Domestic Politics, and the Vietnam War, 1965-1967,”
Department of History, Metropolitan State College of Denver, March 2011.
“War on Multiple Fronts: Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, and the Historiography of the Vietnam
War,” Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice & Department of History, University of San Diego,
November 2010.
“Vietnam’s Second Front: The Nexus of Domestic Politics and Foreign Relations during America’s
Longest War,” Center for Cold War Studies and International History, Interdisciplinary Humanities
Center, Walter Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, & Department of
History, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2010.
“Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy during the Vietnam Era,” Reves Center for International Studies,
East Asian Studies, Asian Studies Initiative, & Lyon G. Tyler Department of History, College of William
& Mary, April 2010.
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“The State of the Field in U.S. Foreign Relations,” Graduate Student Association, Department of
History, College of William & Mary, April 2010.
“The Expanding Universe Theory: Recent Trends in Historiography on the Vietnam War,” Stanley
Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy & Department of History, Williams College, February
2009.
“The GOP and U.S. Vietnam Policy,” Bush School of Government and Public Service, College Station,
Texas, October 2007.
“The Perils and Promise of the Academic Job Market: A Cautionary–Yet Inspiring–Tale,” Graduate
Student Association, Department of History, Texas A&M University, October 2007.
“The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War,” Department
of History, Texas A&M University, October 2007.
“The Goldwater and Fannin Papers: Using Congressional Collections in Foreign Relations Research,”
Arizona Historical Foundation, Tempe, Arizona, February 2006.
“The Republican Party’s Influence on U.S. Vietnam Policy,” Third Annual American Foreign Policy
Lecture, American Foreign Policy Center, Louisiana Tech University, August 2005.
“The Queen of Diamonds and the Delphic Oracle: George Romney, Richard Nixon, and the Vietnam
War, 1967-1968,” Department of History, California State University, Northridge, April 2000.
“George Romney and the Vietnam War,” Mark C. Stevens Fellowship Lecture, Bentley Historical
Library, University of Michigan, August 1998.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION AND OTHER ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
Chair, roundtable on “Democracy and Diplomacy: Twenty Years Later,” SHAFR conference, San
Diego, California, June 2016.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Opposing Any ‘Substitute for Victory’: Conservatism and U.S.
Foreign Policy during the Cold War,” SHAFR conference, Lexington, Kentucky, June 2014.
Chair, panel on “People and Plutonium in Motion: Global Grassroots Anti-Nuclear Activism,” PCBAHA conference, Denver, Colorado, August 2013.
Commentator, panel on “The Roots of a Republican Postwar Foreign Policy, 1945-1955,” SHAFR
conference, Arlington, Virginia, June 2013.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Sports and Foreign Relations in a Global Age,” SHAFR conference,
Arlington, Virginia, June 2013.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Confronting Dien Bien Phu: Why the United States Decided Against
War in 1954,” Policy History conference, Richmond, Virginia, June 2012.
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Chair and commentator, panel on “Countering the Protest: Domestic Supporters of the Vietnam War,”
SHAFR conference, Alexandria, Virginia, June 2011.
Chair, panel on “Religion and Foreign Relations in Contemporary America,” PCB-AHA conference,
Santa Clara, California, August 2010.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy during the Early Cold War,”
SHAFR conference, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2010.
Chair (invited), panel on “Congress, the President, and U.S. Foreign Relations,” conference on “Breaking
Down the Walls: Increasing the Discourse and Exchanging Ideas in the American Policy-making
Community,” Phoenix, Arizona, April 2010. Conference co-sponsored by Arizona State University,
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Phoenix
Committee on Foreign Relations, and SHAFR. Organized panel at request of conference chair.
Moderator and organizer, editorial roundtable on “Obama’s Foreign Policy: An Assessment After Year
One,” SHAFR web site [www.SHAFR.org], January 2010. With Cary Fraser, Walter Hixson, Elizabeth
Cobbs Hoffman, Robert David Johnson, Sandra Scanlon, and Thomas Zeiler.
Chair, panel on “Decolonization and the Cold War in the 1960s,” SHAFR conference, Falls Church,
Virginia, June 2009.
Chair and commentator (by invitation), symposium on “Civil Rights, the Conservative Movement, and
the Presidency,” Alan B. Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency, Florida Atlantic University,
February 2009. Symposium aired on C-SPAN, 28 March 2009.
Commentator, panel on “A Look Back as the Tet Offensive Turns 40,” AHA conference, New York,
New York, January 2009.
Panelist (invited), faculty roundtable, “What’s Next?: Post-Election Perspectives on Foreign Policy,”
David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies Global Awareness Series, November 2008. With
Darren Hawkins, Valerie Hudson, Jeffrey Ringer, and Stan Taylor.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Rethinking the Truman Era: The Politics of Culture in the Early Cold
War,” SHAFR conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008.
Commentator, panel on “Labor, Culture, and Religion in the Cold War,” University of California, Santa
Barbara Center for Cold War Studies/George Washington University Cold War Program/London School
of Economics Cold War Studies Centre (UCSB/GWU/LSE) International Graduate Student Conference
on the Cold War, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2008.
Panelist (invited), faculty roundtable, “Turning Your Paper into a Journal Article,” UCSB/GWU/LSE
International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, University of California, Santa Barbara,
April 2008. With Hope Harrison, Chester Pach, and Jason Parker.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Kennedy and Nuclear Weapons,” SHAFR conference, Chantilly,
Virginia, June 2007.
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Moderator (invited), symposium on “Selling War in a Media Age: The President and Public Opinion in
the American Century,” Alan B. Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency, Florida Atlantic
University, February 2007.
Panelist (invited), faculty roundtable, “Supreme Court in Historical and Contemporary Perspective,” Phi
Alpha Theta meeting, Brigham Young University, September 2005. With Richard Davis and Neil York.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Lyndon B. Johnson in Asia,” SHAFR conference, College Park,
Maryland, June 2005.
Commentator, panel on “The Cold War in Africa,” UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student
Conference on the Cold War, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2005.
Panelist (invited), roundtable, “Future Directions in Cold War History: Implications for the Job Market,”
UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, University of California,
Santa Barbara, April 2005. With Francis Gavin, Hope Harrison, and Chester Pach.
Panelist (invited), faculty roundtable, “Preparing for Graduate School,” Phi Alpha Theta meeting,
Brigham Young University, October 2004. With Mark Choate and Richard Kimball.
Organizer (with Kathryn C. Statler), conference on “Third World, First Priority: The Eisenhower
Administration and the Globalization of the Cold War,” Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice,
University of San Diego, March 2003; chair, panel on “Covert Operations and Psychological Warfare.”
Commentator, panel on “The Cold War in Central Europe,” Center for Cold War Studies graduate
student conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2001.
MEDIA APPEARANCES & INTERVIEWS
Interview, Tomás Croquevielle, El Mercurio (Chile), “Sport Diplomacy,” 17 March 2016.
Interview, Alexander Heffner, History News Network [hnn.us], “Jon Huntsman, China, and the 2012
GOP Presidential Nomination,” 10 October 2011.
Interview (taped for broadcast), “A Discussion of Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the
Republican Party, and the War,” on “Thinking Aloud,” KBYU-FM, Provo, Utah, June 2010; originally
aired 16 June 2010.
Interview (taped for broadcast), “John Sherman Cooper: Soldier, Senator, Diplomat,” on “Kentucky’s
Statesmen,” Kentucky Public Radio, April 2010; originally aired on WEKU-FM, Richmond, Kentucky, 2
June 2010; other broadcasts include: WKMS-FM, Murray, Kentucky, 10 June 2010; and WFPL-FM,
Louisville, Kentucky, 15 June 2010.
Interview (taped for broadcast), “A Historical Perspective on the War in Iraq,” KABC-TV, Los Angeles,
California, 9 April 2003.
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ACADEMIC HONORS & AWARDS
Young Scholar Award, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University,
2011-2014
Fellow, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Summer Institute, 2008
Research Fellow, American Foreign Policy Center, Louisiana Tech University, 2005
Michigan Historical Review National Essay Prize, 1999
Richard K. Mayberry Award (Outstanding Graduate Student), Department of History, University of
California, Santa Barbara, 1998
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 1992
Golden Key National Honor Society, 1992
Dean’s List, Brigham Young University (3.90 cumulative GPA), 1990-1992
Dean’s List with Distinction (4.00 GPA), University of Arizona, 1986-1987, 1990
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
External
Research Grant, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, 2010
Research Grant, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America,
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2010
Research Grant, Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National & International Affairs, 2010
Eisenhower Presidential Library Abilene Travel Grant, The Eisenhower Foundation, 2010
Samuel Flagg Bemis Junior Faculty Research Grant, Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations, 2007
Research Grant, Historical Society of Southern California/John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes
Foundation, 2007
Peter and Edith O’Donnell Grant, The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation, 2006
Moody Research Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 2006
Research Grant, Historical Society of Southern California/John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes
Foundation, 2005
Visiting Scholar Grant, Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, University of Oklahoma,
2005
Research Grant, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, 2004
Visiting Scholar Grant, Research Department, Minnesota Historical Society/State of Minnesota, 2001
Senator & Mrs. Roman L. Hruska Fellowship Fund Scholar, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
Association, 2000
Congressional Research Award, Dirksen Congressional Center/The Caterpillar Foundation, 1999
Horace Samuel and Marion Galbraith Merrill Travel Grant in Twentieth Century U.S. Political History,
Organization of American Historians, 1999
Rockefeller Archive Center General Research Grant, Rockefeller University, 1999
Moody Research Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 1998
Mark C. Stevens Researcher Fellowship, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 1998
Research Grant, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation 1998
Moody Research Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 1997
Flinn Scholar, Flinn Foundation, 1986-1987, 1990
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University
Faculty Research Grant, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University,
2016-2017
General Education Teacher Improvement Grant, Brigham Young University, 2016-2017
Faculty Research Grant, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University,
2014-2015
Research Grant, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, 2013-2014
Professional Development Leave, 2014
Research Grant, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, 2011-2012
Internship Development Grant, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2011
Faculty Research Grant, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University,
2010-2011
Research Grant, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, 2010-2011
Faculty Research Grant, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University,
2009-2010
Research Grant, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, 2009-2010
Internship Development Grant, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2009
Research Grant, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, 2008-2009
Undergraduate Education Scholarly Research Award, Brigham Young University, 2007-2008
Faculty Research Grant, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University,
2007-2008
Research Grant, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, 2006-2007
Undergraduate Education Scholarly Research Award, Brigham Young University, 2006-2007
Faculty Research Grant, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University,
2006-2007
Undergraduate Education Scholarly Research Award, Brigham Young University, 2005-2006
Faculty Research Grant, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University,
2005-2006
New Faculty Research Grant, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young
University, 2004-2005
President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, 1999-2000
Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999-2000
Regents Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998-1999
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Predoctoral Research Fellowship, University of California, Santa
Barbara, 1998-1999
Research Fellowship, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1996-2000 [five
awards]
Teaching Fellowship, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1995-1998 [three
awards]
Conference Travel Grant, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1996, 1998,
2000.
Humanities/Social Sciences Research Grant, Graduate Division, University of California, Santa Barbara,
1995-1997 [three awards]
Alvina S. Barrett Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 1991-1992
University Scholar, Brigham Young University, 1990-1991
President’s Award for Excellence, University of Arizona, 1986-1987, 1990
Regents Academic Scholarship, University of Arizona, 1986-1987, 1990
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TEACHING
Courses taught
Brigham Young University
History 190R Thetean Editing and Publication
History 199R Academic Internship
History 200
The Historian’s Craft
History 221
United States History since 1877
History 376
United States History since 1945
History 391
The United States in Vietnam, 1945-1975
History 393
U.S. Foreign Relations
U.S. Foreign Relations, 1914 to the Present
U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776 to the Present
History 490
Capstone Research Seminar
Politics & U.S. Foreign Relations
Richard Nixon & U.S. Foreign Relations
U.S. Foreign Relations
Global Cold War
Lyndon Johnson’s Foreign Policy
Dwight Eisenhower’s Foreign Policy
Vietnam War
Democracy and Diplomacy
History 498
Directed Readings
Global Environmental & Ecological Diplomacy
CIA and the Globalization of the Cold War
Ideology and Foreign Policy
Supreme Court and the Constitution
U.S. History during the Cold War
U.S.-Latin American Relations
Vietnam War
History 598
Special Readings (graduate course)
War and Society & Race Relations in the Military, 1945-1960
Pol. Sci. 391 Advanced Seminar on Current Issues (Washington, D.C. Seminar)
Pol. Sci. 399R Academic Internship (Washington, D.C. Seminar)
Gonzaga University
History 273
History 274
History 380
United States History to 1865 (Spring 2004)
United States History since 1865 (Spring 2004)
United States History since 1945 (Spring 2004)
Antelope Valley College
History 101
Western Civilization to 1715 (Fall 2003)
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California State University, Northridge
History 271
United States History since 1865 (Spring 2003)
History 303
Great Leaders in Western Civilization to 1500 (Summer 2003)
University of California, Santa Barbara
History 191P Proseminar in Cold War History (Spring 2001)
Santa Barbara City College
History 102
United States History since 1865 (Spring 2000)
Doctoral dissertation supervision
Jeffrey Crean (History, Texas A&M University), 2010-2016, “With Fear and Favor: A Rising China
Threat and the Path to Normalization, 1954-1971” (committee member; Jason Parker, Department of
History, Texas A&M University, chair).
Brian A.J. Clancy (History, University of Western Ontario), 2010, “A Time for Change: Clark Clifford
and the Struggle to End the War in Vietnam, 1965-1968” (committee member; Andrew Johnston,
Department of History, Carleton University, chair)
Harish Chandra Mehta (History, McMaster University), 2009, “‘People’s Diplomacy’: The Diplomatic
Front of North Vietnam during the War against the United States, 1968-1972” (committee member;
Stephen Streeter, Department of History, McMaster University, chair)
Master’s thesis supervision
Shane Mourtgos (History, Brigham Young University), 2007-2010, “Race Relations and the U.S.
Military, 1948-1954” (co-chair with Matthew Mason, Department of History); thesis not completed
Benjamin E.L. Onofrio (English, Brigham Young University), 2008-2009, “American Totalitarianism in
Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and The Armies of the Night” (committee member; Kristin
Matthews, Department of English, chair)
Mentored graduate research projects
Andrew Skabelund (French Studies, Brigham Young University), 2011-2012, “Robert F. Kennedy, the
Vietnam War, and the 1968 Presidential Election” (HBLL research grant project adviser)
Andrew Skabelund (French Studies, Brigham Young University), 2010-2011, “Leopold Senghor,
Senegalese Independence, and Decolonization in Africa” (HBLL research grant project adviser)
Honors thesis supervision
Jessica Deal (History, Utah Valley State College), 2008, “Campus Riots: National and Local Campus
Protesting after the Invasion of Cambodia” (committee member; Kathleen Brown, Department of History
and Political Science, Utah Valley State College, chair)
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Aaron Anderson (History Teaching, Brigham Young University), 2006-2007, “Bringing the Cold War to
Life in the High School History Classroom” (chair)
Mentored undergraduate research projects
Jacob Glenn (History, Brigham Young University), 2011-2012, “Protest and the PRI: Examining U.S.Mexican Relations, 1968-1971” (ORCA grant project adviser)
Phimmasone Michael Rattanasengchanh (History, Brigham Young University), 2008-2009, “U.S.
Foreign Relations with the Hmong Tribe during the Vietnam War” (ORCA grant project adviser)
Andrew Skabelund (History, Brigham Young University), 2007-2008, “Franco-American Relations and
the Algerian War for Independence” (ORCA grant project adviser)
Russell Stevenson (History, Brigham Young University), 2006-2007, “Blood Brothers: Nixon,
Bangladesh, and the Rise of Radical Islam in the Asian Subcontinent” (ORCA grant project adviser)
Aaron Anderson (History Teaching, Brigham Young University), 2006-2007, “Bringing the Cold War to
Life in the High School History Classroom” (ORCA grant project adviser)
Russell Stevenson (History, Brigham Young University), 2005-2006, “‘The Wart on the Hog of
Vietnam’: John F. Kennedy and the Laotian Frontier” (ORCA grant project adviser)
Teaching Awards & Grants
ORCA Mentoring Grant, Brigham Young University, 2006, 2007 [two awards], 2008, 2009, 2012
Excellence in Teaching Award (University Social Science Teaching Assistant of the Year), Graduate
Student Association, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998
Outstanding Instructor, Office of Residential Life, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998
Academic Senate/Committee on Effective Teaching and Instructional Support Curriculum Development
Grant [awarded for innovative curriculum], University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998
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DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Futures Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2016-present, chair
[responsible for creating a strategic plan for the department for the next decade].
Rank & Status Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2012-2015 (chair 20142015); 2016-2018 (chair 2017-2018).
Faculty mentor, Jeffrey Hardy, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2011-2017.
Faculty adviser, The Thetean [undergraduate edited and produced journal], Department of History,
Brigham Young University, 2011-2012 (Katherine White, editor-in-chief).
Graduate Program Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2011-2012
[responsible for reconfiguring the Department’s graduate program for reinstatement].
Russel B. Swensen-DeLamar Jensen Lecture Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young
University, 2011-2012; chair [responsible for selecting speakers for endowed lectures for the 2012-2013
academic year].
Teaching peer reviewer (summative), Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Phi Alpha Theta adviser, Beta Iota chapter, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 20102011.
Recruitment Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2007-2010. Served on
the Department’s standing faculty recruitment committee [responsible for hosting functions at national
academic conferences; maintaining contact with and tracking potential candidates for tenure-track
positions; strategically defining Departmental hiring needs; recommending candidates for one-year
visiting professor positions; etc.].
Search Committee, Open field, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2009-2010.
Search Committee, Modern World (especially modern Europe), Department of History, Brigham Young
University, 2008-2009.
Faculty Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2006-2007. Served as Faculty
Awards sub-committee chair [responsible for compiling recommendation portfolios for college awards,
University professorships, young scholar awards, etc.].
Student Relations Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2005-2006. Served
as Undergraduate Studies Coordinator [responsible for dealing with academic warning, probation, and
suspension issues; assessed and dealt with student grievances; approved transfer courses and
major/minor course substitutions; met with and advised students about major; etc.]; member of selection
committee for annual graduate and undergraduate awards.
Honors Program Coordinator, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2005-2006.
Responsible for approving honors theses and advising students on thesis projects.
Internship Coordinator, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2005-2006. Responsible
for supervision of graduate and undergraduate internships for history majors.
Search Committee, Europe (post-1700, especially France); Mexico/U.S. borderlands; or Africa,
Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2005-2006.
Department representative, University New Student Orientation Program, Brigham Young University,
2005.
Graduate Studies Committee, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 19971998. Served as the graduate student member of the Departmental committee overseeing the graduate
program curriculum and requirements (appointed by Department chair).
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COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Faculty, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University, 2004-present.
International and Area Studies Committee of the Whole, International Relations major, Brigham
Young University, 2004-present (invited).
Advisory Council & Faculty, American Studies major, Brigham Young University, 2012-present
(invited).
Organizer, Kennedy Center lecture, “The Morenci Marines: A Tale of a Small Western Town and the
Vietnam War,” Kyle Longley, Snell Family Dean’s Distinguished Professor, School of Politics and
Global Studies & School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies Arizona State University,
December 2016.
Organizer, Kennedy Center lecture, “Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy,”
David Milne, Senior Lecturer, School of History, University of East Anglia, September 2016.
Faculty Director, Brigham Young University Washington, D.C. Seminar, 2015-2016.
Organizer, Kennedy Center lecture, “Religion in American War and Diplomacy: A History,” Andrew
Preston, Senior Lecturer in American History, Clare College, Cambridge University, February 2013
[Preston’s book, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy, was
selected as the Kennedy Center’s book-of-the-semester after his lecture was arranged.]
Grant proposal reviewer, Office of Research and Creative Activities, Brigham Young University, 2007,
2009, 2012.
Organizer, Kennedy Center/International Cinema/Asian Studies/Department of History/Department of
Asian and Near Eastern Languages lecture, “Renewed Intimacies: Hollywood and Japanese Cinema
from the Occupation to the 1960s,” Hiroshi Kitamura, Associate Professor, College of William and
Mary, March 2012.
Library and Scholarly Communications Advisory Council, Brigham Young University, 2008-2011
(appointed). Served as College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences representative.
Organizer, Kennedy Center lecture, “Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: The United States and
North Korea in the 1960s (and Beyond?),” Mitchell Lerner, Associate Professor, The Ohio State
University and Mershon Center for International Security Studies & Director of the OSU Korean Studies
Institute, January 2011.
Organizer, Kennedy Center lecture, “Nazis and Berliners: State Power, Public Diplomacy, and
Narratives of Germany in Postwar America,” Brian C. Etheridge, John D. Winters Endowed Professor,
Louisiana Tech University, February 2010.
Organizer, Kennedy Center lecture, “Kipling’s Ghost: Decolonization, Public Diplomacy, and the
Invention of the Third World,” Jason C. Parker, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, March
2009.
Organizer, Kennedy Center lecture, “America’s Global Battle for Hearts and Minds: The Early Cold
War Reconsidered,” Kenneth A. Osgood, Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University, October
2007.
Organizer, Kennedy Center lecture, “Iraq and Vietnam: Lessons Learned and Mislearned,” Robert D.
Schulzinger, College Professor of Distinction of History and International Affairs, University of
Colorado & Editor-in-Chief, Diplomatic History, March 2007.
Dean’s Faculty Panel, University Freshman Orientation Program, University of California, Santa
Barbara, 1998 (invited).
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & ACTIVITIES
Editor, Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review, 2011-present
(appointed).
General Editor, Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace book series, University Press of Kentucky,
2011-present (invited). With George Herring, University of Kentucky; and Kathryn Statler, University
of San Diego.
Teaching Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2011-present (ex officio as
editor of Passport).
Council, Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, 2017-2022 (ex officio as presidentelect, president, and past president).
President, Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, 2018-2019 (elected).
President-elect, Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, 2017-2018 (elected).
Nominating Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2015-2017; chair 2017
(elected).
Program Committee, Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association conference, Northridge,
CA, August 2017, 2016-2017 (appointed).
Local Arrangements Chair, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations conference, San
Diego, CA, June 2016 (appointed). With Kathryn Statler, University of San Diego.
Director, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Summer Institute, “‘The Tocqueville
Oscillation’: The Intersection of Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy,” June 2015 (appointed). With
Mitchell Lerner, Ohio State University.
External tenure & promotion referee, Department of History, University of San Diego, 2004 (tenure &
promotion to associate professor); Department of History, Brooklyn College, CUNY, 2014 (promotion to
associate professor); Department of History, Philosophy, Political Science and Religious Studies, Indiana
University Northwest, 2014 (tenure & promotion to associate professor).
Ellis W. Hawley Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians [best book-length historical
study on the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or
international affairs, from the Civil War to the present], 2013-2014; chair (appointed).
SHAFR.org Oversight Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2013-2014
(appointed).
Pacific Coast Branch Book Award Committee, Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association
[outstanding first monograph], 2012-2014; chair 2014 (appointed).
Faculty Advisory Board, Foundations: An Undergraduate Journal of History [national undergraduate
edited and produced journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press], 2007-2014 (invited).
Yasuo Sakakibara Prize Committee, American Studies Association [best paper by an international
scholar], 2010-2012 (appointed).
Editorial Board, SHAFR.org [official web site for the Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations], 2009-2011 (appointed; founding member).
Stuart L. Bernath Dissertation Grant Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations, 2005-2007; chair, 2007 (appointed).
Lawrence Gelfand-Armin Rappaport Dissertation Fellowship Committee, Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations, 2005-2007; chair 2007 (appointed).
Consultant, KABC-TV, Los Angeles, California, 2003-2004. Provided background, thematic, and
contextual information for news producers on a variety of historical and foreign policy issues.
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Historian, Asia & Americas Division, Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States
Department of State, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002. Responsible for the research, compilation, and
editing of the Foreign Relations of the United States volumes on the Nixon administration and Vietnam,
1970-1972; held top secret, codeword, and other security clearances.
Executive Director, Center for Cold War Studies and International History, University of California,
Santa Barbara, 1996-2000; founding member, 1996.
Manuscript & book proposal reviewer (presses), Oxford University Press; Bedford/St. Martin’s Press;
Cambridge University Press; Houghton Mifflin; University Press of Kentucky; AB Longman; Pearson
Higher Education; University of Massachusetts Press; McGraw-Hill; Routledge; CQ Press; ProQuest;
Vanderbilt University Press; Wiley-Blackwell.
Manuscript reviewer (journals), Diplomatic History; Journal of Cold War Studies, Journal of
American-East Asian Relations, Peace & Change, Michigan Historical Review, The Historical Journal.
Professional memberships: Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (life member; 1993present); American Historical Association (1995-present); Organization of American Historians (1995present); American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch (1995-present); National Association of
Scholars (2016-present).
REFERENCES
Mitchell Lerner
Associate Professor, Department of History & Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Director, Institute for Korean Studies
The Ohio State University
Fredrik Logevall
Laurence D. Belfer Professor
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Kyle Longley
Snell Family Dean’s Distinguished Professor
School of Politics and Global Studies & School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Arizona State University
Kenneth Osgood
Director, McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs
Professor, Liberal Arts & International Studies
Colorado School of Mines
Jason Parker
Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Department of History
Texas A&M University
Andrew Preston
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of History
Clare College, Cambridge University
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Kathryn Statler
Professor, Department of History
University of San Diego
*REVISED APRIL 2017