VITA
Emily S. Rosenberg
Department of History
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
949 8240390; [email protected]
Current Position: Chair and Professor of History, University of California Irvine, 2006Past Position: Assistant-Titled Professor, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, 1974-2006
Fellowships and Awards
Major Fellowships:
American Association of University Women, 1971-72
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1983-84
Social Science Research Council, l991-92
Visiting Distinguished Chairs: Carleton College, 1985, 1986
San Diego State University, 1996-7
DeWitt Wallace Titled Professor, Macalester College, l993-2006
Burlington-Northern Award for Outstanding Teaching, l993
Thomas Jefferson Award for outstanding teaching, scholarship, and college service, l994
Outstanding Faculty Award from Macalester Alumni of Color, 1999
Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska, 2000
Robert Ferrell Senior Book Award, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2000
Professor of the Year Award, University of California, Irvine, 2010
Publications
Books
Co-editor, Body and Nation: The Global Realms of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century (Durham: Duke
University Press, 2014). [co-ed with Shanon Fitzpatrick]
Editor, A World Connecting: 1870-1945, Vol. 5 of Akira Iriye and Jürgen Osterhammel, gen. eds., A History of the
World (English ed., Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press; German ed., Munich: Beck, 2012) 6 vols. [translated into
German, Chinese, Korean, Italian]
Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World, 1870-1945 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014) [from a section
of the above edited volume].
A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory (Duke University Press, 2003; paperback, 2005), 235 pp.
(translated into Japanese, with a new introduction, Hosei University Press, 2007)
Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930 (Harvard University
Press, 1999; paperback, Duke University Press, 2004), 334 pp. [Ferrell Book Award winner, 2000; Chapters
reprinted in other books]
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Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People (New York: Cengage, 6 rev. ed., 2013),co-authors John
Murrin, Paul Johnson, James McPherson, Alice Fahs, Gary Gerstle, and Norman Rosenberg
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Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Enhanced Concise Edition (6 rev. ed., 2014),co-authors
John Murrin, Paul Johnson, James McPherson, Alice Fahs, Gary Gerstle, and Norman Rosenberg
America Transformed: A History of the United States Since l900 (New York: Harcourt Brace, l999), co-author Norman
Rosenberg and Gary Gerstle
In Our Times: America Since 1945 (Prentice-Hall, 1976; rev. eds., 1982; 1987; 1991, l995, 1999, 2002), co-author
Norman Rosenberg, 330 pp
Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890-1945 (Hill and Wang, 1982).
[Selected by Choice as one of the outstanding academic books of 1982; chapters have been reprinted in
many readers; translated into Korean, 2002], 258 pp
World War I and the Growth of United States Predominance in Latin America (Garland Press, 1986)
Postwar America: Readings (New York: Prentice Hall, 1976; rev eds., 1980), co-editor with Norman Rosenberg
America: A Portrait in History (New York: Prentice Hall, 1973; rev. ed, 1977), co-author with Norman Rosenberg,
David Burner, Robert Marcus
Articles
“World War I, Wilsonianism, and Challenges to U.S. Empire,” Diplomatic History (2014)
“Re-visioning the American Century,” in “Forum: The End of the American Century?,” Revista di Studi Americani
[RSA Journal published by the Italian Association of North American Studies] (summer, 2014).
“U.S. Mass Consumerism in Transnational Perspective,” Michael J. Hogan and Frank Costigliola, eds., America in
the World: The Historiography of U. S. Foreign Relations Since 1941 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
“Introduction to Roundtable on Indians and American Foreign Relations,” Diplomatic History, 2014
“Response,” in H-Diplo Roundtable on A World Connecting, 1870-1945, H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Volume XIV,
No. 40 (July, 2013) at http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XIV-40.pdf
“American Freedom and the World: External Threats, Internal Dissent,” Pennsylvania Historical Society, Preserving
American Freedom Digital History Project, (July, 2013) at http://digitalhistory.hsp.org/preserving-american-freedom
“Another Mission to Moscow: Ida Rosenthal and Consumer Dreams,” in in Choi Chatterjee and Beth Holmgren, eds.,
The Russian Experience: Americans Encountering the Enigma, 1917-Present (New York: Routledge, 2013), 127-138.
“Consuming the American Century,” in Andrew J. Bacevich, ed., The Short American Century: A Postmortem
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), 38-58.
“Grand Illusion,” The Vice-Presidential Debate of October 12, 2012 AHA Roundtable (October, 2012) at
http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2012/1210/2012-vicepresidential-debate_emily_rosenberg.cfm
“Remembering 9/11; Forgetting Pearl Harbor,” History News Network (December 6, 2011) at
http://hnn.us/articles/remember-911-forget-pearl-harbor
“Forgetting Pearl Harbor,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations website (December, 2011), at
http://www.shafr.org/category/roundtable/
“War and the Health of the State: The U.S. Government and the Communications Revolution during World War I,” in
Kenneth Osgood and Andrew Frank, eds., Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the
American Century (University Press of Florida, 2010), 48-66.
Reconsidering the Work of William A. Williams, a roundtable, Passport: The Newsletter of SHAFR (Spring, 2009).
“America and the World,” in James M. Banner, Jr., ed., A Century of American Historiography (Boston: Bedford/St.
Martins, 2009)
Le «modèle américain» de la consummation de masse” [“The American Model of Mass Consumerism”] in special
issue, Romain Huret, Jean-Christian Vinel, and Alexandre Rios-Bordes, eds., Les Cahiers d’Histoire, 108 (Avril-Juin,
2009), 111-144 .
“Mass Consumerism in Global Perspective,” Clio at Beida (Beijing), 14 (2009), 175-228.
“Present and Past: September 11 and Pearl Harbor,” in David Haugen, ed., Perspectives on Modern World History:
The Attack on Pearl Harbor (Cengage, 2011). [Reprinted from Chronicle of Higher Education; The Chronicle Review
(Dec. 4, 2003)].
Co-author with Norman Rosenberg, “Rethinking Themes for Teaching the Era of the Cold War,” in Carl Guarneri and
Jim Davis, eds., Teaching American History in a Global Context (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008)
“Remembering Pearl Harbor before September 11, 2001,” in Marc Gallichio, ed.,The Unpredictability of the Past:
Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations (Duke University Press, 2007), 15-48
.
“Consumer Capitalism and the End of the Cold War,” in Odd Arne Westad and Melvyn P. Leffler, eds., The
Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vol. 3 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, Vol. 3, 2010),
913-56.
“Progressive Internationalism and Reformed Capitalism: New Freedom to New Deal,” in John Milton Cooper, ed.,
Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008), 253-278.
“Far Out: American Culture in the Space Age,” in Steven J. Dick, ed., Remembering the Space Age (NASA History
Division, 2008), 157-184.
“America and the World: From National to Global,” Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, Vol.. 21
Issue 2, (Apr. 2007), 18-22.
“Bursting America’s Imperial Bubble,” Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 53 Issue 11 (Nov. 2, 2006), p. 63-64.
“Family and Nation,” review essay on Natasha Zaretsky’s No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of
National Decline, 1968-1980, Diplomatic History, Vol. 32 Issue 2 (Apr. 2008), 303-306.
“Jeane Kirkpatrick,” entry for Hasia Diner, ed., Women in American History: An Encyclopedia (Facts On File).
Essays for on-line update of Oxford Companion to United States History
“War on Terrorism”
“Iraq War”
“Ordering Others: U.S. Financial Advisers in the Early Twentieth Century,” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed., Haunted by
Empire (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), 405-426.
“Present and Past: September 11 and Pearl Harbor,” Chronicle of Higher Education; The Chronicle Review
(Dec. 4, 2003). Reprinted in David Haugen, ed., Perspectives on Modern World History: The Attack on Pearl Harbor
(Cengage, 2011).
“Rescuing Women and Children,” Journal of American History (Sept., 2002); reprinted in Joanne Meyerowitz,
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ed.,History and September 11 (Temple University Press, 2003), 81-93.
“Considering Borders,” Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson, eds., Explaining the History of American Foreign
Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 176-193
“Missions to the World: American Philanthropy Abroad, 1890-1945,” in Lawrence J. Friedman and Mark
D.McGarvie,eds., Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 241258.
Editorial on Pearl Harbor, Asahi News (Japan) and International Herald Tribune, May, 2001.
“Twenties-Twenties Hindsight,” Foreign Policy, Oct., 2000.
Essays in Oxford Companion to United States History, Paul Boyer, ed., (Oxford University Press, 2001):
“Dollar Diplomacy”
“Foreign Relations: Overview”
“Foreign Relations: The Cultural Dimension”
“Gold Standard”
“Potsdam Conference”
“Consuming Women: Images of Americanization in the ‘American Century’,” Diplomatic History
23 (Summer, 1999): 479-98. Reprinted in Michael Hogan, ed., The Ambiguous Legacy: U.S. Foreign Relations in the
“American Century”, (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 437-462.
“Revisiting Dollar Diplomacy: Narratives of Money and Manliness,” Diplomatic History 22 (Spring, l998), 155-176.
“Turning to Culture,” in Gilbert Joseph, et al ,ed., Close Encounters of Empire (Duke University Press, l998), 487-514.
“A Call to Revolution: A Roundtable on Early U.S. Foreign Relations,” Diplomatic History 22 (Winter, l998)
"Cultural Interactions," in Stanley Kutler, ed., The Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth
Century (Scribners, l996), 695-718.
Biographical entries for American National Biography of Ella Grasso and Vera Micheles Dean
"Spreading 'The American Dream' to Asia," IHJ Bulletin: A Quarterly Publication of the International House of
Japan, (Winter, l995)
"The Gender Difference," in Thomas Paterson and Dennis Merrill, eds., Major Problems in American Foreign
Relations, Vol II., (Heath, l995)
"'Foreign Affairs' After World War II: Connecting Sexual and International Politics," Diplomatic History,
18 (Jan., l994), 59-70.
"Economic Interest and U. S. Foreign Policy," in Gordon Martel, ed., American Foreign Relations Reconsidered
(Routledge, l994), 37-52.
"The Rocky Mountain West: Region in Transition," in Larry D. Swanson and Robert F.Frazier, eds.,
Visioning the New Economy in the Rocky Mountain West (University of Montana, l994)
"Growing from the Grassroots: Nontraditional Approaches to Small Business Development," Northwest
Report (Fall, l994).
"Response to the Roundtable on 'Imperialism: A Useful Category of Analysis?" Radical History Review (Fall, l993),
82-84.
"A Century of Exporting the American Dream," in Richard Horwitz, ed., Exporting America: Essays on American
Studies Abroad (Garland Press, l993) 37-51.
"The Cold War and the Discourse of National Security," Diplomatic History (Spring, l993).
"NSC-68 and Cold War Culture," in Ernest R. May, ed., American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC 68
(Bedford Books, St. Martin's Press, l993). 160-165.
"Labor, Corporatism, and U.S.-Mexican Relations," Diplomatic History (Fall, l992)
.
"The Rocky Mountain West: Region in Transition, Montana Business Quarterly 30 (Winter, l992), 1-8
"Walking the Borders," in Thomas Paterson and Michael Hogan, eds, Explaining the History of American
Foreign Relations (Cambridge University Press, l99l), 25-35.
"Signifying the Vietnam Experience," Reviews in American History, 19 (Sept., l99l), 438-44
The New, New West: Assessing a Century of Change in the Northwest Region, (Northwest Area Foundation, l99l)
"Walking the Borders," Diplomatic History, 14 (Fall, l990), 565-74
"Gender" in "A Round Table: Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations," Journal of American History,
77 (June, 1990), 116-124
"'The Empire' Strikes Back," Reviews in American History, 15 (Nov., 1988)
"Deliverance," Reviews in American History, 15 (June, 1987), 332-37
"From Colonialism to Professionalism: The Public-Private Dynamic in United States Foreign Financial Policy, 18981930," Journal of American History, June 1987, 57-82 (co-author Norman Rosenberg). Revised version of this essay
was reprinted in Paul Drake, ed., Financial Advising in Historical Perspective (Scholarly Resources, 1993).
"Restructuring in the Financial Sector: A Quiet Revolution," Northwest Report, (winter, 1987), 14-23
"The Invisible Protectorate: The United States, Liberia and the Evolution of Neocolonialism, 1909-1940," Diplomatic
History, 9 (summer, 1985), 191-214
"Foundations of United States International Financial Power: Gold Standard Diplomacy, 1900-1905," Business
History Review, 59 (summer, 1985), 169-202
"The 'Instrument of the Immortals' or 'Music for the Millions': A History of the Manufacture and Sales of Piano in
America," in The Piano: A Mirror for America (Schubert Society, St. Paul, MN, 1981)
"Mexican Oil and United States Policy," (review essay), Latin American Research Review 3 (1980)
"La politica del presidente Wilson en America Central: La lucha contra la inestabilidad economica," Revista de
Historia de la Escuela de Historia, UNA, Heredia, Costa Rica (1980), 33-58
"The Shared Career," The Two Career Family (University Press of America, 1978)
"Decoding the Values of an Age: The Use of Novels in the Teaching of American Foreign Relations," History
Teacher (March, 1978)
"Emergency Executive Controls over Foreign Commerce and United States Economic Pressure on Latin America
during World War I," Inter-American Economic Affairs (Spring, 1978)
"Anglo-American Economic Rivalry in Brazil during World War I," Diplomatic History (Spring, 1978)
"Economic Pressures in Anglo-American Diplomacy in Mexico, 1917- 18," Journal of Inter-American
Studies and World Affairs (May, 1975)
"World War I and 'Continental Solidarity'," The Americas (Jan.,1975)
"Dollar Diplomacy under Wilson: An Ecuadoran Case," Inter- American Economic Affairs, (Spring, 1971)
Book and Website Reviews since 2006
Glenda Sluga, Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013),
Journal of Modern History (2014).
Max Paul Friedman, Rethinking Anti-Americanism: The History of an Exceptional Concept in American Foreign
Relations (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), Journal of American Studies (2014)
Sarah E. Ruble, The Gospel of Freedom and Power: Protestant Missionaries in American Culture after World War II
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012) for Journal of American History 100 (2013), pp. 585-586.
David Ekbladh, The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order
(Princeton University Press, 2010) for Journal of Global History 7 (July 2012), pp. 334-335.
Jason M. Colby, The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and US Expansion in Latin America (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2011) for Pacific Historical Review 82 (May, 2013), pp. 295-296.
Steven M. Gillon, Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation into War (New York: Basic Books, 2011) for Presidential
Studies Quarterly 42 (Dec. 2012), pp. 909–910.
Contributor, H-Diplo Roundtable on Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine, Arc of Empire: America’s Wars in Asia
from the Philippines to Vietnam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012, H-Diplo Roundtable Review,
Vol. XIV, No. 27 (2013).
Contributor, H-Diplo Roundtable on Nick Cullather, The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in
Asia (Harvard University Press, 2010), H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Vol. VIII, No. 5 (2011).
Contributor, Roundtable on John Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq (Norton/New Press,
2010), Critical Asian Studies 43:3 (2011), pp. 450-454.
John Bodnar, The ‘Good War’ in American Memory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), Cercles
(2010) at http://www.cercles.com/review/reviews.html
Introduction, H-Diplo Roundtable on Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel J. Sargent, eds., The
Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2010) , H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Vol. XI, No. 49, (2010)
Contributor, H-Diplo Roundtable on Bruce Cumings, Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American
Power (Yale University Press, 2010), H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Vol. XI, No. 34 (2010).
Contributor, H-Diplo Roundtable on Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle
City (Picador, 2010), H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Vol. XI, No. 27 (2010).
Contributor, Roundtable on Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population
(Harvard University Press, 2008), in the journal Il Mestiere dello Storico (n.2, 2009).
David Holloway, Cultures of the War on Terror: Empire, Ideology, and the Remaking of 9/11. (Montreal and Kingston:
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008) for The Historian 72 (2010), pp. 928-299.
Alexander Missel, Seaway to the Future: American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009) in Pacific Historical Review, 79 (2010), pp. 154-155.
Kristin Hoganson, Consumer’s Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 (2007) for
Pacific Historical Review 78 (Feb., 2009), pp. 145-6
Contributor, H-Diplo Roundtable on Paul Kramer, The Blood of Empire: Race, Empire, The United States, and The
Philippines (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews, Vol. X, no. 3 (2009).
Aims McGuinness, Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush (Cornell, 2008) for American Historical
Review Jun 2008, Vol. 113 Issue 3, pp. 883-884
Eric Rauchway, Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America (2006) for American Historical Review, Apr
2007, Vol. 112 Issue 2, pp. 494-495
“Irresistible US,” a review essay of Victoria de Grazia’s Irresistible Empire (2005) for Passports (newsletter for
SHAFR) April, 2007
Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, (2005), for Journal
of Global History, Vol. 1 Issue 3 (Nov. 2006), pp. 410-413
Kenneth Osgood, Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad (2006) for Bulletin
of Atomic Scientists, Vol. 62 Issue 4 (Jul/Aug 2006), pp. 57-59
Richard T. Arndt, The First Resort of Kings: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century (2005) for
American Historical Review, Vol. 111 Issue 4, (Oct. 2006), pp. 1212-1213
National Geographic: Remembering Pearl Harbor website, for Journal of American History, Vol. 93 Issue 2 (Sept.
2006), p.626
Work in Progress
The Looks of Power: U. S. Coercion and Persuasion in the Post-World War II American Ascendancy [book project]
Addresses and Papers and Conferences since 1985
Keynote Address, Actor Networks between “Global Markets” and “the Nation,” 1650-1950, Freie Universität Berlin,
Berlin, Germany, August 1-3, 2013.
Chair, panel “No Laughing Matter: Comic Books in U.S. International History,” annual convention of Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlinglinton, VA, June 25, 2013.
Participant, Professional Review Seminar for Jooling Lee, postdoc fellow and PhD from Brown, USC Korean Studies
Institute, April 25, 2013
Roundtable Participant, “The Cultural Turn in US Foreign Relations,” annual convention of the Organization of
American Historians, San Francisco April, 2013.
Commentator and Panelist , Berkeley International and Global History (Big-H) Graduate Student Conference,
University of California, Berkeley, March 15-16, 2013.
Lecture and Seminar, “Persuasion and Coercion in the Post-WWII US Empire,” Princeton's Institute of International
and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Princeton University, Feb. 13, 2013.
Chair, panel on “US in the World,” for a symposium on New Presidential History, Miller Center, University of Virginia,
October 25-26, 2012.
Public lecture, “The World of Madeliene Albright,” Bowers Museum [to open an exhibit of Albright’s pins], October 20,
2012.
“The American Look: The Nation in the Shape of a Woman,” for panel on “Bodies/Nations,” annual convention of
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Alexandria, VA, June 2011.
Chair, panel on Bodies/Nations II, annual convention of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations,
Alexandria, VA, June 2011.
Plenary panel, “Transnational History,” Berkeley International and Global History (Big-H) Graduate Student
Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March 4-5, 2011.
Chair, panel on “US-Japanese cultural relations in the Cold War,” annual convention of Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations, Madison, June, 2010
Roundtable Participant, panel on George Herring’s From Colony to Superpower, annual convention of Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, Madison, June, 2010
“American Century/Consumer Century,” invited address for lecture series on “End of the American Century,” Boston
University, March, 2010
Chair and commentator, panel on “Capitalism after the Cultural and Transnational Turns,” American Historical
Association Annual Convention, January, 2010, San Diego
Roundtable, “The New History of U.S. Empire,” American Historical Association Annual Convention, January, 2010,
San Diego
Presentation, symposium on “Transnational History,” Department of History, UCLA, October 23, 2009
Roundtable Participant, “Considering the Name of the Journal Diplomatic History,” annual convention of Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, June, 2009
Chair, “Empire without Borders,” panel at annual convention of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations,
Washington, June, 2009
“What Enters the Open Door,” Retrospective Conference on William A. Williams, Rutger’s University, April, 2009
Keynote, plenary address, “Consumerism and Cold War,” Merschon Center Conference, Ohio State University, April
3, 2009.
Consumerism in Global Perspective,” Bejing Forum, 2008, November 7-9, 2008
“The Changing Landscape of Historical Methodology,” Peking University, November 10, 2008.
“Advertising American Technology Abroad during the Cold War,” National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C.,
December 2, 2008.
Chair and Comment, session on “U.S. Women's Organizations, Citizenship and Gendered Diplomacy in the
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Twentieth Century“, 14 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Minneapolis, June 12-15, 2008.
Convener and Chair, panel on “U.S. Cultural and Informational Policy in the Cold War,” UCI, May 21, 2008. [This is a
new interest group of historians of U.S. international history from colleges and universities in Southern California that
I have convened and will now meet regularly at UCI, USC, and UCLB.]
“Americanization and Globalization: A New Look at Cold War History,” Texas Community College Teachers
Convention, February, 22, 2008. (keynote address)
”Mass Consumerism and the Cold War as Global History,” Robert Strauss Center’s Globalization Speaker Series,
University of Texas, Austin, Feb. 20, 2008. (public symposium)
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From Irrational Exuberance to Hearts of Darkness: US Imperial Debates in the 20 Century,” Keynote speaker for
series on “American Empire,” The College of New Jersey, Feb., 26, 2008. (Keynote, public address)
Conducted faculty seminar on Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy in the New Deal’s Foreign Economic Policy, The College of
New Jersey, Feb. 26, 2008.
“Consumer Capitalism and the End of the Cold War,” UCSB-GWU-LSE Cold War and International History
Conference, UCSB, April 4-5, 2008. (keynote address)
“War and the Health of the State: The U.S. Government and the Communications Revolution during World War I,”
Larkin Symposium on “Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century,”
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Feb. 15, 2007. (public symposium).
“Consumer Capitalism and the End of the Cold War,” paper presented to Cambridge History of the Cold War
Conference, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., Mar., 2007.
“Did Consumerism Help End of the Cold War?” Rundell lecture, University of Maryland, May 2007. (keynote public
address)
“Far Out: American Culture in the Space Age,” Conference on Remembering the Space Age, sponsored by NASA
and the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, October, 2007. (keynote, public address)
Chair and Comment, session on “Interiority and External Relations: Racial, Religious, and Gendered Influences on
American Diplomacy,“ Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, April 2007.
Seminar on “Historical Memory,” for University of Maryland graduate students, May, 2007.
Chaired panel on “Rethinking China and Europe: Connections and Comparisons, UCLA, Nov. 10, 2007
“Progressive Internationalism and Reformed Capitalism: New Freedom to New Deal,” “Woodrow Wilson 150,” hosted
by the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C., October, 2006. (CSPAN-taped conference)
“Representing 9/11: The Politics of Form,” for Plenary session, “9/11 in Historical Perspective,” Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Convention, held at University of Kansas, June 2006. (keynote
address)
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“Cold War and America’s Consumer Society,” panel presentation at the 50 Anniversary Convention of the Japanese
Association of International Relations, Tokyo, October 14, 2006. (“The Cold War and America’s Consumer Society,”
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10,000 word paper placed on the website for the conference proceedings of the 50 Anniversary Convention of the
Japanese Association of International Relations, Tokyo, October 14, 2006).
Chaired session on “Popular Opposition to War and Empire in the Wilson Era, ” Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations Annual Convention, June 2006.
“Scaring Hell,” presenter for LBJ School/Woodrow Wilson School-sponsored project on “liberalInternationalism,” University of Texas, October, 2006.
Respondent for sessions on “U.S.-Latin American Relations” and on “Development Programs” at Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations annual convention, College Park, 2005
“Imperial Bubbles: From Utopian Visions to Hearts of Darkness,” public address at University of Connecticut Foreign
Policy Seminar, April 22, 2005.
“Remembering Empire”,” Public lecture at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, March, 2005.
“Talking History” radio interview on memory and Pearl Harbor, aired week of Dec. 6, 2004 on many stations around
the country and Voice of America.
”Dates Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor and 9/11 in American Memory,” Tyler Lecture series and Seminar, College of
William and Mary, October, 2003
“Ordering Others: The Dilemmas of Empire,” Public Lecture and Seminar at City University of New York, Series on
“American Empire,” April, 2003
“Pearl Harbor and American Memory,” Public Lecture and Seminar, University of Maine, Oct., 2002
Speaker in Lecture Series on Secrecy: “National Security, Classification, and Secrecy,” University of Wisconsin
School of Law, April, 2002
Commentator, Harvard Graduate Student Annual Conference on Cultural Themes in Diplomatic History, April, 2002
Participant (one of 15) in a two-year project on Historical Memory in U.S.-Japanese Relations during World War II,
2000-2002 (Conference at Harvard, 2000; Honolulu, 2001; Tokyo, 2002)
Moderator, “Historymatters” internet discussion on “American imperialism,” 2000
Commentator, The Cold War in Latin America,” Latin American Studies Association Convention, Washington, 2001
Commentator, “Women Activists and International Relations in the Twentieth Century,” SHAFR Convention,
Washington, 2001
Chair, “Film and Foreign Policy after World War II,” SHAFR Convention, Toronto, 2000
Chair, “Food and Foreign Policy,” Organization of American Historians Convention, Los Angeles, 2000
“Consuming Women: Images of Americanization in the American Century,” Carson Lecturer, Oregon State University,
January, l999
Commentator, Crossing Centuries, Remaking Boundaries: Abortion Politics and the Politics of National Identity,”
American Studies Association Convention, Montreal, 1999
Chair, “Reel Internationalism: American Foreign Relations and Film in the 1940s,” AHA Annual Convention, Seattle,
Jan., l998
“Dollar Diplomacy Revisited: Narratives of Money and Manliness,” SHAFR Presidential Address, AHA Annual
Convention, Jan., l998
“The ‘New Woman’ in Images of Americanization Abroad,” all-campus lecture series, University of Connecticut,
October, l998
Chair, “Between Frontier and Empire: American Women and the Asia-Pacific in Wartime,” OAH Annual Convention,
April, l997.
Lecture for Foreign Policy Seminar, “Dollar Diplomacy,” University of Connecticut, April, l997
Lecture, “Cultural Narratives and Dollar Diplomacy,” University of California-Irvine, May, l997
Chair, “Tourism and American Foreign Relations,” SHAFR Annual Convention, Georgetown, June 1997
Panelist, Roundtable discussion on "Culture and Diplomacy," SHAFR Annual Convention, Annapolis, June l995
Commentator, “From the Dawes Plan to Bretton Woods: The United States and the Financial Reconstruction of
Europe,” AHA Convention, Jan., l996
Chair, “The Crisis of Early American Diplomatic History,” OAH Annual Convention, April, l996
Lefler lecture, “Performing Masculinity and the Origins of the Profession of International Financial Advising,” Carleton
College, Feb, l996
Commentator, panel on “Internationalism,” SHAFR Annual Convention, Boulder, l996
Commentator, Panel on "American Culture Abroad: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century," American
Historical Association Convention, Jan., l994
OAH Lecturer at Illinois State University at Springfield, March, l995
"Spreading the American Dream to Asia," Keynote Address at the Fifth Symposium on American Studies in the Asia
Pacific Region, Tokyo, Oct., l994. Also delivered at Doshisha University, Kyoto, and at the International
Christian University, Tokyo
"Crossing Cultural Divides: A Historical Perspective on the Expansion of American Popular Culture in the 20th
Century," part of a lecture series on American Popular Culture Abroad, Smith College, Mar., l993
"Gendered Discourses in Dollar Diplomacy," Organization of American Historians Annual Convention, April, l993
Workshop on Gender and Foreign Relations, History Department, The Ohio State University, May, l993
Chair and Commentator, panel on "Intelligence Research: Approaches to Analysis," Symposium on Teaching
Intelligence, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, October, l993
"'Foreign Affairs': Connecting Personal and International Relationships in the Late l940s," luncheon speaker for the
Missouri Valley Historical Association, Omaha, March, l992
"The New, New West," conference on "The New Rocky Mountain Regionalism," organized by the Department of
Business Administration, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, June, l992
Workshop on Gender and Foreign Relations, Institute for Contemporary History, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Sept.,
l992
Panelist, "Scholarship and Secrecy," SHAFR annual convention, June, l99l
Moderator, panel on "The Domestic Impact of the Cold War" and Leader, workshop on "Gender and the International
Order," at Conference "Re-Thinking the Cold War," Madison, WI, Oct., l99l
Chair, Panel on "Pearl Harbor as Symbol: A Fifty-Year Retrospective," American Historical Association Annual
Convention, Chicago, December, l99l
"Imperial Culture," two lectures for the Harvey Goldberg Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of History,
Jan., 1990
Commentator, panel on Culture and Diplomacy at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual
convention, 1989
Organizer and Chair, panel on "New Research on America's Cultural Impact in Europe," Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations annual convention, 1988
"'Being Grandmotherly'? The Cultural Implications of the Debate over Loan Conditionality," European Association for
American Studies Convention, Berlin, 1988
"Spreading the Politics of Plenty: Dollar Diplomacy, 1990-1930," paper presented at Conference on American
Empire, Rutgers University, April, 1988
Commentator, panel on "The American Dream in Republican China," American Historical Association Annual
Convention, Washington, December, 1987
"Dollar Diplomacy and the Creation of Neo-Imperial Culture," American Studies Association Annual Convention, New
York, Nov., 1987
Commentator, "Foundations and American Foreign Policy," American Historical Association Convention, New York,
Dec., 1985
"America's Role in International Financial Advising, 1900-1929," annual convention of the Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations, Stanford University, l985
Positions Held
American Historical Association, Committee on International Historical Activities, 2005-2010
Ways and Means Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2009Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Investment liason, 2011-12
President, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, l997-l998 (organization with a 1700 international
membership)
Vice-President, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 1996-1997
U. S. State Department's Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, l990-l995. (This
congressionally constituted committee meets at the Department of State four times a year to oversee
publication of the Foreign Relations series and review issues related to declassification.)
Executive Board, Organization of American Historians, l993-96
Governing Council, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, l992-95
Director, Women and Gender Studies Program, Macalester College, l995-96 (established major)
Governor-appointed state commissioner, Minnesota Humanities Commission, 1987-91
Acting Vice-President, Northwest Area Foundation, 1986
Vice President, Women Historians of the Midwest (WHOM), 1985-87.
Editorial and Selection Boards
External Reviewer, Institute for Advanced Study's School of Historical Studies, Princeton University, Nov., 2013.
Selection committee for new editor of Diplomatic History journal, 2012-13
American Historical Review Editorial Board, 2012-14
Co-Editor (with Gilbert Joseph), book series entitled “American Encounters/Global Interactions,” Duke University
Press, 1998-present
Selection Committee, Grants given by Russell Sage Foundation, 2009
Head, selection committee for Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Dissertation Completion
Fellowship, 2007 - 2009
Selection Committee, Fulbright Senior Specialists Program, Council on International Education, 2004-06
Advisory Council for the Alan B. Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency at Florida Atlantic University, 2007
Ferrell Book Prize Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2003-06 (head, 2006)
Editor for one of 6 volumes in a “New World History” project under the general editorship of Jurgen Osterhammel
and Akira Iriye, (C.H. Beck and Harvard University Press), 2006Advisory Board, National History Education Project (sponsored by ACLS and Carnegie Endowment), 2001-4
Search Committee for new editor of Diplomatic History, 2001-2
Advisory Board, “The Cold War as Global Conflict,” International Center for Advanced Studies, NYU, 2000Editorial Board, Journal of American History, l997-2000
Editor [for Diplomatic/Military entries], Oxford Companion to American History, (Oxford, 1999) and on-line updates
OAH Investment Committee, 1994; Committee to Review the Office of the Treasurer, 1998; Selection Committee
for new Treasurer, 2002
OAH Leopold Prize Committee, 1998
Editorial Board, Reviews in American History, l992-97
Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century, (Scribners, l995)
Associate Editor, American National Biography (John Garraty, General Editor), l990-1996
Bernath Book Award Committee, l992-95
Proposal Reviewer for grants given by the James J.Hill Library for work in the Hill papers, annually, 1985-present
Judge for finalist competition, Bush Leadership Awards, 1987-89
Bernath Prize Committee for Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 1988-90
Editorial Board, Diplomatic History, 1988-91
National Endowment for the Humanities, History Screening Committee for grants, 1986
Peltzer Award Selection Committee, 1987-89, Organization of American Historians.
Selection Committee for Fulbright Awards, Council on International Education, 1985-1988,
Chair, 1987-1988
College and Community Service (list on request)
Confidential Reviews
Book Manuscript reviews for U. of North Carolina Press (1989, l992, l996); John Hopkins Press (1990); D.C. Heath
(1990); Cornell University Press, (l992 and l994); Stanford University Press (l994); Yale University Press
(l992, l994, 2006, 2007); Duke University Press (l997, 1998, 2000-06, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010); Columbia
University Press (1999); New York University Press (2000); University of California Press (2000); University
of Texas Press (2001); University of Massachusetts Press (2005); Harvard University Press, 2006, 2007,
2010.
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Recent article manuscript reviews: Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2006; Journal of American History,
2006; Journal of Women’s History, 2006; Diplomatic History, 2007, 2009, 2010; 2011, 2013 Security Dialogue, 2006;
Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive History, 2007, 2009; Journal of American History, 2008; International History
Review, 2008, 2009; Asia-Pacific Journal, 2010; American Historical Review, 2012, 2013.
4-6 tenure/promotion reviews for other institutions per year.
Consultant Activities and TAH Presentations
Evaluator, History Department Outside Review Committee, Scripps College, Claremont CA, Jan., 2014
Teaching American History (TAH) workshop leader, sponsored by UCI’s History Project, March, 2013
Evaluator, History Department Outside Review Committee, Chapman University, Orange, CA, March, 2013
Board Member, Shorenstein Oral History Project, University of California, Berkeley, 2010Teaching American History workshops leader (four seminars), sponsored by Wisconsin public schools, Madison,
June, 2010
Teaching American History(TAH) workshop leader, sponsored by UCI’s History Project, February, 2010
Consultant, Documentary film “Across the Pacific” on rise of US air power
Teaching American History workshop leader, sponsored by University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, July, 2008
Teaching American History workshops leader (2 seminars), sponsored by Choices, Watson Institute at Brown
University, June, 2007
Workshop leader, Institute at Pearl Harbor Memorial sponsored by East-West Center, July, 2007
Evaluator, History Department at Colorado College, May, 2007 (three-person team)
Teaching American History workshop leader, sponsored by Santa Ana High school, November, 2006.
Evaluator, History Department, Occidental College, spring, 2006 (two-person team)
Advisory Board, America Abroad Media, 2004Teaching American History workshop (week-long seminars), sponsored by Wisconsin public schools and University
of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, June 2005.
Consultant, WBGH Public Television on new American Experience series on U.S. history, 2003
Teaching American History through History Day leader (week-long seminars), sponsored by Minneapolis/St.
Paul Public Schools and the Minnesota Historical Society, Summers, 2002-2004
Evaluator, History Department, Grinnell College, Summer 1998
Evaluator, History Department, University of Minnesota at Morris, Spring, l995
Evaluator, Social Science Division, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, Spring, l994
Consultant and filmed interview for T. V. documentary on Calvin Coolidge
Program Consultant and Evaluator, Grants on Economic Development, Northwest Area Foundation, 1989-1994
Updated: Summer, 2014