Curriculum vitae



Timothy J. Naftali

7-13 WASHINGTON SQUARE NORTH, APT. 48A, Y, NY 10003 │ TIMOTHY.NAFTALI@NYU.EDU

EDUCATION

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MA. 1993

M.A and Ph.D. in History

Dissertation: "X-2 and the Apprenticeship of American Counterespionage, 1942-44."

Advisors: Akira Iriye & Ernest May

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies University, Washington, DC 1987

M.A. with Distinction in American Foreign Policy and International Economics

Yale College, New Haven, CT. 1983

B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Distinction in History

foreign languages

FRENCH READ, SPEAK

German Read

Russian Read

books

JFK, THE PRESIDENT EXPECTED 2021

New York: W. W. Norton.

Impeachment: An American History 2018

(with Jon Meacham, Peter Baker and Jeffrey A. Engel)

New York: Random House

The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy, Volume 4-6, Gen. Ed. 2016

(with Philip Zelikow), New York: Norton.

The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson, Volumes 7-8, Gen. Ed. 2011

New York: W.W. Norton

George H. W. Bush, 2007

New York: Times Books.

Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of An American Adversary, 2006

(with Aleksandr Fursenko), New York: Norton.

Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism, 2005

New York: Basic Books.

US Intelligence and the Nazis 2005

(with Richard Breitman, Norman J. W. Goda and Robert Wolfe)

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

"One Hell of a Gamble": Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964, 1997

(with Aleksandr Fursenko), New York: Norton.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Public Policy Major Sept. 1, 2018-Current

NYU CAS-Wagner

Director

Designated Survivor: Season Three August 2018-Current

Entertainment One/Netflix

Historical Consultant

Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Feb.23-25, 2018

Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Middlebury College

Monterey, CA

[Course: The Evolution of US Counterterrorism Policy]

Adjunct Faculty

Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Oct. 27-29, 2017

Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Middlebury College

Monterey, CA

[Course: An Introduction to US Intelligence]

Adjunct Faculty

NYU Wagner and NYU History Department Sept. 1, 2017-Current

Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service

Clinical Associate Professor of History

CNN June 1, 2016-Current

Presidential Historian

NYU Wagner and NYU History Department Sept. 1, 2015-Current

Clinical Associate Professor of History

Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service

[Courses include Espionage & The Making of the Modern World;

Nationalism, the Cold War and the Collapse of the Old Empires]

Center for the United States and the Cold War Jan.2014-August 2016

New York University

Co-Director

CBS Studios [“Cheerleader Death Squad” project] 2014-2015

Consultant

Department of History, New York University May 2014-Aug. 31, 2015

Adjunct Associate Professor of History

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Jan. 2014-Aug. 31, 2015

New York University

Director

New America Foundation. January 2012-Current

Senior Research Fellow

Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, July 2007-Nov. 2011

National Archives and Records Administration

College Park, MD/ Yorba Linda, CA

Director

Nixon Presidential Materials Project, Oct. 2006-July 2007

College Park, MD/ Yorba Linda, CA

National Archives and Records Administration

Director

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (9/11 Commission). 2003-2004

Historical Consultant

Nazi War Crimes and Imperial Japanese Government Records Interagency 1999-2006

Working Group, National Archives and U.S. Department of Justice.

Historical Consultant

Center for Counterintelligence and Security Studies 1998-2006

Arlington, VA

Adjunct Instructor

public history

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES PROJECT, MAY 4 VISITOR CENTER SUMMER 2018-PRESENT

Kent State

Advisor

Developing “Spies & Lies,” a new series with WNET Summer 2014-Current

Creator, Producer, Presenter

Richard Nixon Library Watergate Gallery Opened March 2011

Curator of the federal Nixon Library’s first Watergate Gallery

Oral history

JOHN BRADEMAS CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CONGRESS MAY 2015-CURRENT

NYU

Principal interviewer, Reflections Project

(@12 interviews, e.g., Walter Mondale, David Bonior, Trent Lott, Blanche Lincoln)

Tamiment Video Oral History Project April 2014-Aug. 2015

NYU

Founder and Principal Interviewer

(4 interviews, including Daniel Rubin and Jack O’Dell)

John F. Kennedy Video Oral History Project July 2012

NARA/John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

Principal Interviewer (2 interviews, Dan Fenn and Richard Donohue)

Richard Nixon Video Oral History Program Dec. 2006-Nov. 2018

National Archives and Records Administration

Founder and Principal Interviewer

(Over 110 interviews, e.g. Lamar Alexander, Frank Borman, Benjamin Bradlee, Stephen Breyer,

Dick Cheney, Charles Colson, Daniel Ellsberg, Elizabeth Holzman, John Kerry,

Melvin Laird, Anthony Lake, G. Gordon Liddy, Rolando Martinez, Paul O’Neill, Charles Rangel,

Donald Rumsfeld, James Schlesinger, Brent Scowcroft)

Lloyd Cutler Biographical Oral History Project 2003

Miller Center of Public Affairs

Interviewer (Interview with Lloyd Cutler)

Jefferson Clinton Presidential History Project 2002-2005

Miller Center of Public Affairs/Clinton Foundation

Interviewer

(Interviews with Warren Christopher, Strobe Talbott, John Deutch and Sandy Berger)

George H. W, Bush Oral History Project 2000

Miller Center of Public Affairs/Bush Foundation

Interviewer (Interview with Robert Gates)

OSS Oral History Program 1997

National Archives and Records Administration/Central Intelligence Agency

Interviewer (6 interviews, including Eloise Page, Roger Goiran, John Waller)

Fellowships/AWARDS

DUKE OF WESTMINSTER’S MEDAL FOR MILITARY LITERATURE (WITH ALEKSANDR FURSENKO). 2007

Smith Richardson Foundation, “Why Terrorists Stop” 2006-Current

Sesquicentennial Fellowship, University of Virginia. 2003-2004

Akira Iriye Prize for International History (with Aleksandr Fursenko), 1997-1998

Olin Fellowship in National Security, International Security Studies, 1996-1998

Yale University.

Research Fellowship, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1996

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Charles Warren Fellowship for Studies in American History, Harvard University. 1995

John Addison Porter Prize in American History, Yale College. 1983

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS & APPEARANCES

“PRESIDENTS UNDER FIRE: THE HISTORY OF IMPEACHMENT” DEC. 2. 2018

CNN Special Reports

“The Puffer Fish & the Eagle: Russia & the United States since the End of World War II” Nov. 30, 2018

Conference: “US-Russian Relations: From Teheran to Yalta and Beyond”

Bard College

Panelist, “Inclusive Presidential History” Aug. 29, 2018

Presidential Sites Summit

White House Historical Association

Washington, DC

The 2000s, CNN [episodes 2, 3, 6] July-August 2018

1968: The Year That Changed America, CNN [episodes 2, 3, 4] May 2018

American Dynasties: The Kennedys, CNN March-April 2018

[episodes 1,2,3,4 and 6]

Moderator, Panel on Nixon v Trump April 14, 2018

OAH Annual Conference, Sacramento, CA

“On Khrushchev,” Panel: “Averting Armageddon from JFK to Nixon,” Nov. 9, 2017

Conference: “U.S. Presidents Confront the Russians:

A Century of Challenge, 1917-2017,”

Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Moderator, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Forum, Oct. 26, 2017

Book talk by Richard Aldous, Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian, Boston, MA.

The Nineties, CNN [episodes 2, 3, 6] July-August 2017

Chair, “Nixon and Vietnam Revisited: Global and Domestic Political Perspectives June 24, 2017

on United States Strategic Withdrawal, 1967-1975,”

Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Annual Conference, Arlington, VA

Speaker. “New Evidence From the Clinton Years: Planning FRUS”, June 24, 2017

Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Annual Conference, Arlington, VA

“Watergate-Truth and Lies” 20/20, ABC June 16, 2017

“Nixon’s The One: 1968 and the first months of the Nixon era,”

Miller Center of Public Affairs, UVA

Charlottesville, VA Sept.30, 2016

“The Elusive President: Why is JFK so hard to understand?”

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF FORCE AND DIPLOMACY,

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, APRIL 14, 2016

Q AND A WITH PAUL SPARROW, DIRECTOR OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LIBRARY, APRIL 6, 2016

FOLLOWING SCREENING OF “KENNEDY V. NIXON,” FDR LIBRARY, HYDE PARK, NY, .

“EXHIBITING CONTROVERSY,” PANEL MARCH 17, 2016

NATIONAL COUNCIL ON PUBLIC HISTORY, ANNUAL MEETING,

BALTIMORE, MD.

PANEL, 1960 ELECTION WITH LT. GOV. KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND MARCH 6, 2016

FOLLOWING SCREENING OF KENNEDY V. NIXON, NEWSEUM, WASHINGTON DC,

THE EIGHTIES, CNN [EPISODES 3,7] APRIL-MAY 2016

RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE, CNN [EPISODES 1,5] MARCH-APRIL 2016

“BEING NIXON, A CONVERSATION WITH EVAN THOMAS” NOV. 2, 2015

JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY

BOSTON, MA

A CONVERSATION WITH BOB WOODWARD ON “THE LAST OF OCT. 14, 2015

THE PRESIDENT’S MEN”

COOPER UNION, NYC

“DEMYSTIFYING JFK” OCT. 6, 2015

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF TRANSFORMATIVE LIVES

NYU

THE BOMB, PBS JULY 28, 2015

THE SEVENTIES, CNN [EPISODES 2,5,6,8] JUNE-AUG. 2015

“Kazakhstan in the Mind of Cold War America” May 18-22, 2015

“Soyuz: The Secret History of US-Soviet Collaboration for Victory

in World War II,” Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan

“The 1990s: The Forgotten Decade” May 1, 2015

Kent State University

Dick Cavett’s Vietnam, PBS April 28, 2015

The Day the 60’s Died, PBS April 27, 2015

James Baker: The Man Who Made Washington Work, PBS March 24, 2015

Panelist, American Journalism Historians Association, Minneapolis, MN Oct. 10, 2014

President Ford’s Pardon of Richard M. Nixon: Sept. 8, 2014

A 40-year Retrospective

Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA

PBS NewsHour, Nixon resignation discussion August 9, 2014

Dick Cavett’s Watergate , PBS August 8, 2014

The Sixties, CNN [Episodes 2,4,5,8,9] June-August 2014

selected articles

“THE OVERLOOKED PRESIDENT,” [GEORGE H. W. BUSH OBITUARY] DEC. 1, 2018



“The midterms pit our system against the Agitator in Chief,” Oct. 24, 2018



The Problem with Trump’s Madman Theory,” The Atlantic Oct. 4, 2017

“How Obama’s Note to Trump Defied History,” Sept, 5, 2017

“Comey is the Opposite of J. Edgar Hoover,” June 9, 2017

JFK’S Russia Conspiracy May 27, 2017



The Hundred Days, What Does it All Mean April 28, 2017



Team Trump, Don’t Repeat Nixon’s Mistake,” Nov. 11, 2016,



“The Secrets First Ladies Always Keep,” Nov. 2, 2016



Review of ”True Believer: Stalin’s Last American Spy,” ”

New York Times Book Review, Sept. 9, 2016

“CIA reveals its secret briefings to Presidents Nixon and Ford,” , August 26, 2016

“What Bill O’Reilly Missed About Slavery,” . July 27, 2016

“Russia not the first to mess with our politics,” , July 25, 2016.

Review of “The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961,”

New York Times Book Review Sept. 11, 2015

“Did the CIA go Rogue after 9/11?” Slate Dec. 9, 2014

“The Long Road of Redemption for One Gay Public Servant.” Jan. 23, 2014

[with James Kirchick], National Journal

“Obama should reveal Secret Syria Intercepts,” Slate August 29, 2013

“From Cold War to Cold Shoulder Why Putin Made the Spy Game Personal” August 14, 2013

Foreign Affairs (online)

“Will the Bush Library Address Torture?” Slate April 25, 2013

“First Brother: Why is it taking RFK’s Family so long to show us his papers from Oct. 15, 2012

the Cuban Missile Crisis?” Slate

“The Malin Notes: Glimpses inside the Kremlin during the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Fall 2012

The Global Cuban Missile Crisis at 50, Cold War International History Project Bulletin,

No. 17/18.

“George Kennan, Michael McFaul and Their Paranoid Hosts,” Foreign Affairs (online) April 17, 2012

“What JFK Can Teach Obama About Dealing with Iran,” Slate March 13, 2012

“George W. Bush and the “War on Terror,” The Presidency of George W. Bush: 2010

A First Historical Assessment, Julian E. Zelizer, ed., Princeton, NJ: Princeton

University Press.

“Snoop Dogs: What does Congress do next about the NSA?” (with Shane Harris), Feb. 3,2006

Slate.

“Homeland Security Screw-up,” Slate. Sept. 1, 2005

“Cracking the London Case,” Slate. July 13, 2005

“Berlin to Baghdad: The Pitfalls of Hiring Enemy Intelligence,” Foreign Affairs. July/August 2004

“Word for Word: Khrushchev Unplugged,” The New York Times. Sept. 14, 2003

“Learning Lessons Learned by Kennedy,” The New York Times. April 6, 2003

“The Mystery of Heinrich Mueller: New Materials from the CIA,” Winter 2001

(with Norman J. W. Goda, Richard Breitman and Robert Wolfe), Holocaust and

Genocide Studies.

“Soviet Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” (with Aleksandr Fursenko), in 1998

Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis, James Blight and David Welch, ed.,

London: Frank Cass.

"Creating the Myth of the Alpenfestung: Allied Intelligence and the Collapse of the 1996

Nazi Police-State," Contemporary Austrian Studies, Vol. V.

"History Declassified: The Perils and Promise of Intelligence Documents," Fall 1994

(With Zachary Karabell) Diplomatic History

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