THOMAS ('TIM') BORSTELMANN
THOMAS (“TIM”) BORSTELMANN
Department of History 6048 Cross Creek Rd.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68516
Lincoln, NE 68588 (402) 327-8372
(402) 472-2414 tborstelmann@neb.
EMPLOYMENT
Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of Modern World History,
Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2003-present
Professor, Department of History, Cornell University, 2003
Associate Professor, Department of History, Cornell University, 1997-2002
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Cornell University, 1991-1997
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Duke University, Spring 1991
EDUCATION
Ph.D. – Duke University, 1990
M.A. – Duke University, 1986
B.A. – Stanford University, 1980 (Phi Beta Kappa)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Apartheid’s Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001)
Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States, co-authored with Jacqueline Jones, Peter Wood, Elaine Tyler May, and Vicki Ruiz (New York: Longman Publishers, 2003)
* Brief Edition, main author (New York: Longman, 2004)
* 2nd Edition (New York: Pearson Longman, 2005)
* Advanced Placement Edition (New York: Pearson Longman, 2005)
* 2nd Brief Edition, main author (New York: Pearson Longman, 2007)
* 3rd Edition (New York: Pearson Longman, 2008)
* 3rd Brief Edition (New York: Prentice Hall, 2010)
* 4th Edition (New York: Prentice Hall, 2013)
* 5th Edition (New York: Prentice Hall, 2016)
The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
* Chinese translation (Commercial Press, 2015)
Scholarly Articles
“Jim Crow’s Coming Out: Race Relations and American Foreign Policy in the Truman Years,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 29 (September 1999): 549-569
“Hedging Our Bets and Buying Time: John Kennedy and Racial Revolutions in the American South and South Africa,” Diplomatic History 24 (Summer 2000): 435-463
“The United States, the Cold War, and the Color Line,” in Origins of the Cold War: An International History, ed. Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter, 2nd Edition (New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 317-332
“The American South and the Cold War,” in Local Consequences of the Global Cold War, ed. Jeffrey A. Engel (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007), pp. 77-95
“Epilogue: The Shock of the Global,” in The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, ed. Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel Sargent (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 351-354
“Connelly Roundtable,” in “SHAFR in the World” roundtable, Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 42, 2 (September 2011): 10-11
“U.S. History and Beyond,” Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 44, 1 (April 2013): 14-15
“Conclusion: More Equal and Less Equal since the 1970s,” in Winning While Losing: Civil Rights, the Conservative Movement, and the Presidency from Nixon to Obama, ed. Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2014), pp. 275-286
“A Worldly Tale: Global Influences on the Historiography of U.S. Foreign Relations,” in America in the World: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1941, 2nd edition, ed. Frank Costigliola and Michael J. Hogan (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 338-360
“Inside Every Foreigner: How Americans Understand Others,” SHAFR presidential address, Diplomatic History, 40, 1 (January 2016): 1-18
“The Cold War,” in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Race, ed. Matthew Pratt Guterl (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Encyclopedia Articles
“South Africa-U.S. Relations” in Dictionary of American History Supplement, ed. Robert Ferrell and Joan Hoff (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996)
“de Klerk, F. W.”; “Mandela, Nelson”; “Mobutu, Seke Seso”; “Race and Racism”; “Young, Andrew” in Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations, ed. Karen Christensen (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
“Cold War,” in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 3: History, ed. Charles Wilson Reagan (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
Book Reviews
“Featured Review” of Alexander DeConde, Ethnicity, Race, and American Foreign Policy: A History (Northeastern University Press, 1992), American Historical Review 98 (April 1993): 463-465
David M. Barrett, Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers (University Press of Kansas, 1993), Journal of American History 81 (December 1994): 1381-1382
Peter J. Schraeder, United States Foreign Policy toward Africa: Incrementalism, Crisis and Change (Cambridge University Press, 1994), Diplomatic History 20 (Fall 1996): 681-684
Nina Davis Howland and Glenn W. LaFantasie, eds., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, Vol. 21: Africa (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996), Journal of American History 83 (December 1996): 1097
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s (Harvard University Press, 1998), American Historical Review 104 (February 1999): 222-223
Donald Culverson, Contesting Apartheid: U.S. Activism, 1960-1987 (Westview Press, 1999), International History Review 22 (September 2000): 715-717
Peter L. Hahn and Mary Ann Heiss, eds., Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World since 1945 (Ohio State University Press, 2000), International History Review 23 (December 2001): 981-983
Irwin M. Wall, France, the United States, and the Algerian War (University of California Press, 2001), Journal of American History 89 (September 2002): 711-712
“Feature Review” of Gerald Horne, From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980 (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) and Andrew DeRoche, Black, White, and Chrome: The United States and Zimbabwe, 1953-1998 (Africa World Press, 2001), Diplomatic History 27 (January 2003): 155-161
Maria Höhn, GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), International History Review 25 (June 2003): 483-485
Barnett R. Rubin, Blood on the Doorstep: The Politics of Preventative Action (Century Foundation Press, 2002), Peace and Change 29 (January 2004)
Petra Goedde, GIs and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949 (Yale University Press, 2003), International History Review 26 (September 2004): 675-677
Carol Anderson, Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), American Historical Review 109 (October 2004): 1253-1254
Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Race for Sanctions: African Americans against Apartheid, 1946-1994 (Indiana University Press, 2004), Diplomatic History 29 (June 2005): 569-572
Jeff Woods, Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968 (Louisiana State University Press, 2003), American Historical Review 110 (December 2005): 1558-1559
Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Cambridge University Press, 2005), International History Review 28, 4 (December 2006): 900-901
Jonathan Rosenberg, How Far The Promised Land? World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam (Princeton University Press, 2006), Peace and Change 32, 2 (April 2007): 229-232
Naoko Shibusawa, America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy (Harvard University Press, 2007), Pacific Historical Review 77, 3 (August 2008): 527-529
Sue Onslow, ed., Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation (Routledge, 2009), H-Diplo Roundtable 13, 10 (November 14, 2011): 6-10,
Michael L. Clemons, ed., African Americans in Global Affairs: Contemporary Perspectives (Northeastern University Press, 2010), The Historian 73, 4 (Winter 2011): 810-811
Ryan Irwin, Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order (Oxford University Press, 2012), H-Diplo Roundtable, 15, 3 (September 23, 2013): 6-9,
Robert B. Rakove, Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (Cambridge University Press, 2013), American Historical Review 119, 3 (June 2014): 937-938
Introduction to roundtable review of Daniel J. Sargent, A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s (Oxford University Press, 2015), H-Diplo Roundtable Review, 17, 10 (January 2016): 2-4,
Film Reviews
"Have You Heard from Johannesburg: Seven Stories from the Global Anti-Apartheid
Movement” (Connie Field, dir., 2011), Diplomatic History 36, 5 (November 2012): 801-804
Miscellaneous Articles
“The Scholarship of Walter LaFeber,” Cornell University Arts & Sciences Newsletter 15 (January 1994): 4-5
“The Future of Civil Rights: A Dialogue,” Focus on Law Studies (American Bar Association) 17 (Spring 2002): 1-12
“Iraq ‘Surge’ Evokes a Reminder of MacArthur’s Escalation Plan,” Omaha World-Herald, February 4, 2007
“Who We Were: How Equality Begat Inequality, and Other Ways the 1970s Shaped Our World,” Zócalo Public Square, December 19, 2011,
“Nixon Changed Our Worldview,” Zócalo Public Square, February 11, 2013,
“Presidential Column: Exploring Borders in a Transnational Era,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 45, 3 (January 2015): 6
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
* Annis Chaikin Sorensen Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2015
* Election as Vice-President (2014) and President (2015) of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
* Nebraska Humanities Council symposium grant, “Pauley Symposium on History, Truth, and Reconciliation” ($5,000), 2012 (co-recipient)
* University of Nebraska-Lincoln Research Council symposium grant, “Pauley Symposium on History, Truth, and Reconciliation” ($3,000), 2012 (co-recipient)
* Outstanding Research and Creative Achievement in the Humanities Award, College of
Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2012
* Honorary Member, Innocents (Honors) Society, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009
* Honorary Member, Black Masque Chapter of Mortar Board Honors Society, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007
* UNL Parents Association Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students, 2006-07, 2008-09, 2013-14
*“People Who Inspire” Award, Mortar Board Honors Society, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2004 and 2005
* First Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of Modern World History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2003
* Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists, Cornell
University, 1998 (competitive university award to recognize undergraduate teaching
among recently-tenured faculty, granting one half year’s salary and benefits)
* Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation Grant-in-Aid, 1995
* 1994 Stuart L. Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (for best first book in diplomatic history)
* Harry S. Truman Library Institute Research Grant, 1994
* Eisenhower World Affairs Institute Abilene Travel Grant, 1994
* Harry S. Truman Library Institute Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1989-1990
* Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Fellowship, Duke University, 1989-1990 (declined)
* Harry S. Truman Library Institute Research Grant, 1988
* Richard Watson Fellowship, Department of History, Duke University, 1985-1988
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND COMMENTS
Comment on “The U.S. Senate and Foreign Policy Making in the Cold War Era,” session at annual meeting of Organization of American Historians, April 1992, Chicago, Illinois
“The Cold War and the Color Line: The United States and Southern Africa in the Truman Years,” annual meeting of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 1993, Charlottesville, Virginia
Comment on “The United States and the Third World after 1945,” session at annual meeting of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 1994, Waltham, Massachusetts
“The United States and Southern Africa: Strategic Imperatives and Racial Considerations,” annual meeting of American Historical Association, January 1995, Chicago, Illinois
“Rethinking Containment: Racial Polarization and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Johnson Era,” annual meeting of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 1996, Boulder, Colorado
Comment on “The Republican Party, the American Communist Party, and the Issue of Race in the 1950s,” session at semi-annual meeting of the New England Historical Association, October 1996, Bristol, Rhode Island
“’[I] Would Like To Be On The Side of the Natives For Once’: Dwight Eisenhower and the Rise of People of Color in the United States and Abroad,” annual meeting of American Historical Association, January 1998, Seattle, Washington
“Introducing Jim Crow to the World: Race Relations and American Foreign Policy in the Truman Years,” Comparative History Program, Cornell University, September 1998, Ithaca, New York
“Containing Racial Conflict: John Kennedy, the American South, and Southern Africa in the Early 1960s,” annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 1999, Toronto, Canada
Comment on “The United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean and Notions of Race, Class, and Citizenship in the Twentieth Century,” session at annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 2000, St. Louis, Missouri
Comment on “Frontiers of Prejudice: Race, Ethnicity, and International Policy in World War II-Era America,” session at annual meeting of the American Historical Association, January 2002, San Francisco, California
“The Demise of White Supremacy: Race Relations and U.S. Foreign Policy after 1945,” annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 2002, Washington, D.C.
Comment on session on Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1954-1976, annual meeting of the Conference of Latin American Historians/American Historical Association, January 2003, Chicago, Illinois
Plenary Session panelist on “International and Domestic Public Policy,” Policy History Conference, May 2004, St. Louis, Missouri
Chair and Comment on “The Shape of Things to Come: U.S. Policy toward the Third World in the 1960s and 1970s,” session at annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations,” June 2004, Austin, Texas
Chair and Comment on “Un-Scrambling New Challenges in Africa: Lumumba, Kaunda, Polaroid, and Genocide,” session at annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations,” June 2004, Austin, Texas
Comment on “Black and White and Red All Over: Southern Anti-Communism and the Civil Rights Movement,” session at annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, November 2004, Memphis, Tennessee
Chair, “Teaching World History,” session at Missouri Valley History Conference, March 2005, Omaha, Nebraska
“The Future of National Surveys: Curriculum, Teaching, and Texts,” conference on “Reframing Scholarship in the Global Era: Questions of Nation and Place,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2006
Comment on “Apartheid in the Cold War Era: A Transnational Perspective,” session at the Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2007
Comment on “Cold War, Civil Rights: Broadening the Dialogue,” session at annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2007
Comment on “Ideological and Devotional Upheaval in World Affairs,” session at Weatherhead Center “Global 1970s” conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2008
Chair, “The Early Years of the U.S. State Department’s African Bureau,” session at annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Falls Church, Virginia, June 2009
Chair and Comment, “The Hidden Hand: Race and the State in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations,” session at annual meeting of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2010
Chair, “Race and the International System,” session at annual meeting of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2010
Comment on “Revisioning National Histories in the Age of Global Media,” session at annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, Massachusetts, January 2011
Comment on “The Global Cities,” session at the annual Missouri Conference on History, Kansas City, Missouri, April 2011
Chair, “Lions, Liaisons, and Lectures, Oh My! Anticolonial Engagements in Cold War America,” session at annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Alexandria, Virginia, June 2011
“More Equal, Less Equal: The Reshaping of the United States and the World in the 1970s,” session at annual meeting of Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, August 2011
Chair, “Cold War Development: Ideologies, Policies, Practices,” session at annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Hartford, Connecticut, June 2012
Chair and commentator, “Myth and Memory: International Politics in the 20th Century,” session at “Public and Private Memory,” James A. Rawley Conference in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 2013
Chair and commentator, “Sovereignty Diffused, Power Transformed? International Relations in the 1970s,” session at annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, Virginia, June 2013
“State of the Field: Race and the Cold War,” session at annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2014
Chair and commentator, “Reimagining Issues of Class in the 1970s: From the Local to the Global,” session at annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2014
Chair, “Diplomacy in the Era of Détente: The United States and Europe in the 1970s,” session at annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Lexington, Kentucky, June 2014
Discussant, “Dictators, Diplomats, and Dissidents: United States Human Rights Policy in the Long 1960s,” book incubator conference for Professor Sarah Snyder, American University, June 2015
Comment on “Blurring the Color Line: Black Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa during the Early Cold War,” session at annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2016
INVITED LECTURES
“Race Relations and American Foreign Policy since 1945,” Graduate Workshop in Diplomatic History, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, December 1994
“South Africa and the World, 1945-1994,” George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, March 1995
“Introducing Dixie to the World: U.S. Foreign Relations and the American South in the Cold War,” Porter L. Fortune, Jr., History Symposium, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, September 1999
“Race Relations and Foreign Relations: The American Dilemma in the Cold War,” Southern New England Foreign Policy Seminar, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, November 1999
“The Cold War and the American South,” Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 2003
“How Will Historians Write the History of September 11?”, “September 11 as History” conference, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., September 2003
“American Race Reform in International Context,” University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, February 2004
“How the United States Understands Its Opponents,” University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, February 2004
“America and Its Enemies,” E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 2004
“The History of America and Terrorism,” Westminster Presbyterian Church, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 2004
“The Future of America and Terrorism,” Westminster Presbyterian Church, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 2004
“Threats to World Stability and Security,” Wick Alumni Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 2004
“The Global Impact of World War II,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 2005
“The Color of Cold War Diplomacy,” Teaching American History program on “War, Diplomacy, Immigration, and Democracy,” Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library, Fremont, Ohio, July 2005
“Globalization and Its Discontents,” Teaching American History program on “War, Diplomacy, Immigration, and Democracy,” Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library, Fremont, Ohio, July 2005
“The Changing Face of America’s Enemies,” Richard Dean Winchell Lecture, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, September 2005
“Israel and Sanctions: The Historical Background,” Westminster Presbyterian Church, Lincoln, Nebraska, January 2006
“The 1970s as American and Global History,” plenary session address, Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2007
“Teaching American History in a Global Era,” keynote address at Mid-America American Studies Association, Kansas City, Missouri, April 2007
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Honors Program, “Last Lecture,” Lincoln, Nebraska, April 2007
“Egalitarianism and Market Values: The Reshaping of the United States and the World in the 1970s,” Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, October 2007
“The United States and the Islamic World,” Westminster Presbyterian Church, Lincoln, Nebraska, January 2008
“Reading the Signs of the Times,” commencement address, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, August 2008
“Democracy in the Modern World,” University of Nebraska-Lincoln Honors Program lecture series, October 2008
“American History and World History,” plenary session address, Weatherhead Center “Global 1970s” Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2008
“A Peculiar Partnership: Egalitarianism and Free-Market Conservatism in the United States and the World since the 1970s,” Larkin Symposium on “Civil Rights and the Presidency: Nixon to Obama,” Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, February 2009
“More Equal, Less Equal: The Reshaping of America and the World in the 1970s,” Scowcroft Institute International Affairs Seminar, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, March 2010
“Race in American History,” “Race and the Cold War,” and “Equality since the 1960s,” Teaching American History symposium, Douglas County School District, Parker, Colorado, September 2010
“Globalization: The Path to the Present,” keynote address, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Honors Program lecture series, September 2010
“The United States and the International History of the 1970s,” lead discussant with Charles Maier, Harvard University, “A Superpower Transformed” conference, Institute for International Studies, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California, November 2011
“From Hierarchical Conservatism to Egalitarian Liberalism: The Cold War and the Struggle for American Identity,” “Public Relations of the Cold War” conference, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, December 2011
“What Really Happened in the 1970s? The Reshaping of American and World History in a Crucial Decade,” Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, February 2012
“American History and World History in the 1970s,” University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, February 2012
“What Really Happened in the 1970s? The Reshaping of American and World History in a Crucial Decade,” University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, February 2012
“What Really Happened in the 1970s? The Reshaping of America and the World in a Crucial Decade,” Scott-Hawkins Lecture, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, April 2012
Plenary panel speaker, “Refiguring the 1970s: New Narratives in U.S. and International History,” conference at the University of Chicago, April 2013
“More Equal, Less Equal: The Reshaping of America and the World in the 1970s,” Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas-Austin, November 2013
“The United States and the World since 1900” (four lectures), Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Lincoln, Nebraska, January-February 2014
"The Politics of Faith and Identity during the Global Turn,” conference on "Beyond the Culture Wars: Recasting Religion and Politics in 20th Century America,” John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, March 2014
“Inside Every Foreigner: How Americans Understand Others,” presidential address, annual meeting of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Arlington, Virginia, June 2015
“The United States and the World since 1900” (four lectures), First-Plymouth Congregational Church, Lincoln, Nebraska, November-December 2015
TEACHING
Undergraduate Courses
U.S. Foreign Policy, 1912-Present
Seminar on the United States in the 1960s
Modern America since 1900
Introduction to United States History, 1865-Present
The United States and the Third World
The United States since 1945
Seminar on the Cold War
Seminar on Modern Revolutions
Seminar on Contemporary International History
Seminar on America and the World
Seminar on the Shaping of Modern America
Capstone Research Seminar on U.S. Foreign Relations and Immigration
Directing Honors Theses
Graduate Courses
Seminar in United States Diplomatic History
Introduction to Historical Methodologies
Seminar in Recent United States History
Introduction to the Professional Study of History
International History of the 20th Century
Readings Seminar in U.S. History since 1877
Graduate Students Supervised
Andrew Wilson, Ph.D. (Nebraska), 2016
Joy Schulz, Ph.D. (Nebraska), 2011
Matthew Walker, Ph.D. (Nebraska), 2010
Jason Colby, Ph.D. (Cornell), 2005
Gregg Brazinsky, Ph.D. (Cornell), 2002
Jeremy Gundel, M.A. (Cornell), 1996
Katie Wittering, M.A. (Cornell), 1995
SERVICE
Cornell Department of History
Chair, search committee for Russianist/East Europeanist position, 2001
Chair (and sole member), search committee for Americanist post-doctoral position, 2001
Search committee for Latin Americanist position, 2000
Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1998-1999
Undergraduate Curriculum committee
Graduate Curriculum Review committee
Faculty Senate representative
Cornell University and College of Arts and Sciences
Chair, Dean’s ad hoc tenure committee for Viranjani Munasinghe, Department of Anthropology, 2001
Undergraduate admissions reader
Society for Humanities applications reader
Hull Fund committee
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of History
Chair, search for African Americanist position, 2003-2004
Graduate Committee, 2003-2004, 2006-2009
Chair’s Advisory Committee, 2004, 2005-2007
Chair of Graduate Committee, 2008, 2010-2013
Teaching History Forum, “Teaching Seminars,” November 20, 2009
Co-organizer, Pauley Lecture, 2011
Co-organizer, Pauley Symposium in the Humanities, 2012
University of Nebraska-Lincoln and College of Arts and Sciences
UNL Research Council, 2003-2006
Arts and Sciences Dean’s ad hoc committee for Sorensen Professorship in American History, 2004
Interlocutor for Leon Wieseltier, E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, Lied Center,
October 2004
Senior Vice-Chancellor’s advisory committee for Initiative for Teaching and Learning Excellence, 2005
Graduate College Dean’s advisory committee for Graduate Research Assistant Awards, 2005
Address to Chancellor’s Reception, Lincoln, October 2005
Address to Chancellor’s Reception, Scottsdale, Arizona, February 2006
Address to Chancellor’s Reception, Palm Springs, California, February 2006
Address to Chancellor’s Reception, Naples, Florida, March 2008
College of Arts and Sciences Endowed Professorship Committee, 2008-2011
Moderator, question and answer session with F. W. De Klerk, former President of South Africa, E. N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, February 2009
Moderator, question and answer session with Sen. Chuck Hagel and Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yesui, E. N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, November 2010
College of Arts and Sciences Executive Committee, 2009-2011
Senior Vice Chancellor’s Search Committee for Dean of Graduate Studies, 2011
Advisory Committee to the Director of International Studies, 2011-2012
Program Committee of the E. N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, 2012-2015
Review Team for Academic Program Review of UNL Department of Political Science, 2012
Guest Lecture, “The United States: A Force for Democracy in the World?” UNL Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) on Civic Engagement, sponsored by U.S. State Department, January 2014, February 2015, and January 2016
Debate moderator, Andrew Bacevich and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Derek Chollet, “The American Military: War and Peace, Spending and Politics,” E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, February 2014
Historical Profession
Editorial Board, Diplomatic History, 1995-1998
Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize committee of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 1996-1998 (chair, 1998)
Chair, Richard W. Leopold Prize committee of the Organization of American Historians, 1998-2000
George Louis Beer Prize committee of the American Historical Association, 2002-2005
Myrna Bernath Book Prize committee of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2003-2006 (chair, 2006)
Chair, Ellis Hawley Book Prize committee of the Organization of American Historians, 2005-2006
Ph.D. committee, Javan Frazier, Department of History, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, 2005-2006
Advisory Board, Oregon Public Broadcasting Video Series on “Teaching American History,” Portland, Oregon, 2005-2007
Chair, Program Committee for Annual Meeting, Organization of American Historians, 2008-2010
Ph.D. committee, Brian McNeil, Department of History, University of Texas-Austin, 2011-2014
Referee, Dutch Council for the Humanities, Open Fellowship Competition, 2013
Ph.D. committee, Candace Sobers, Department of History, University of Toronto, 2013-2014
Commentator, dissertation seminar for Josh Mather, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, February 2014
Vice-President, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2014
President, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2015
Mentor, Miller Center National Fellowship Program, University of Virginia, 2015-2016
Manuscript referee for American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Diplomatic History, Political Science Quarterly, The Historian, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Pacific Historical Review, Journal of Southern History, Harvard University Press, Yale University Press, Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, University of North Carolina Press, Cornell University Press, Ohio University Press, Houghton Mifflin Publishers, M.E. Sharpe Publishers, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Publishers, Bedford/St. Martin’s Publishers
Tenure and Promotion Reviews
Department of History, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002
Department of History, Arizona State University, 2004
Department of History, University of California-Davis, 2004
Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
Department of History and Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, 2005
Department of History, Colorado State University, 2005
Department of History, Villanova University, 2007
Department of History, Vanderbilt University, 2008
Department of History, Northwestern University, 2009
Department of History, Harvard University, 2009
Department of History, University of Arizona, 2009
Department of History, College of William and Mary, 2009
Department of History, University of Evansville, 2010
Department of History, University of Florida, 2010
Department of Transnational Studies, University of Buffalo, 2012
Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, 2012
Department of History, Williams College, 2013
Department of Liberal Arts and International Studies, Colorado School of Mines, 2013
Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, 2014
Department of History, University of Iowa, 2014
Department of History, Emory University, 2014
Department of History, Cornell University, 2014
School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2014
Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis, 2015
Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (past president), World History Association
March 2016
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