Jeffrey A. Engel
Center for Presidential History and Clements Department of History
Southern Methodist University
318 Dallas Hall, PO Box 750176
Dallas, TX 75275
Academic Employment:
Southern Methodist University
Founding Director, Center for Presidential History, 2012-Present
Professor, Clements Department of History, 2018-present
Associate Professor, Clements Department of History, 2012-2018
Senior Fellow, John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, 2012-Present
Texas A&M University, Bush School of Government & Public Service
Verlin and Howard Kruse ’52 Founders Professor, 2009-2012
Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, 2009-2012
Assistant Professor of History and Public Policy, 2004-2009
Evelyn and Ed F. Kruse ’49 Faculty Fellow, 2006-2009
Texas A&M University, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs
Director of Programming, 2009-2012
Director, 2008-2009
Associate Director, 2007-2008
University of Pennsylvania
Lecturer in History and International Relations, 2003-2004
Yale University
Olin Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Studies, 2001-2003
Lecturer in the Department of History, 2002-2003
Education:
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. in American History, 2001
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Master of Arts in American History, 1996
Cornell University, Bachelor of Arts, Magna cum Laude in History, 1995
Oxford University, St. Catherine’s College, Trinity Term, 1994
Publications:
Books
The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush’s Decision to Surge in Iraq, Timothy Andrew Sayle, Jeffrey A. Engel, Hal Brands, and William Inboden, eds, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2019).
Impeachment: An American History, Jeffrey A. Engel, Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, and Peter Baker (New York: Random House, 2018).
When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017).
When Life Strikes the President: Scandal, Death, and Illness in the White House, Jeffrey A. Engel and Thomas J. Knock, eds., (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea, Jeffrey A. Engel, ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror, Jeffrey A. Engel, Mark A. Lawrence, and Andrew Preston, eds. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014).
Into the Desert: Reflections on the Gulf War, Jeffrey A. Engel, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Rethinking Leadership and “Whole of Government” National Security Reform, Joseph R. Cerami and Jeffrey A. Engel, eds., (Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2010).
The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989, Jeffrey A. Engel, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). Excerpted in Foreignpolicy.com, November 9, 2009.
The China Diary of George H.W Bush: The Making of a Global President (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008). Excerpted in Newsweek, December 24, 2007.
Local Consequences of the Global Cold War, Jeffrey A. Engel, ed. (Palo Alto and Washington, DC: Stanford University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008).
Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007).
- American Historical Association’s 2008 Paul Birdsall Prize.
Web-Published Projects
Collective Memory of the Life and Times of the George W. Bush Administration, Jeffrey A. Engel and Brian Franklin, eds. Ongoing Oral History Program for Archival and Public Use. http://www.smu.edu/CPH/CollectiveMemoryProject
Current Projects
Fourteen Points for the Twenty-First Century, Jeffrey A. Engel and Richard Immerman, eds, (University of Kentucky Press, Expected Spring 2020)
Thinking about Tomorrow: 1992 and the Campaign that Defined Our Times (under contract with W.W. Norton & Company’s Liveright imprint).
Edited Journal Edition
Diplomatic History, Guest Editor of Special Edition, “The End of the Cold War: New Evidence and Interpretations from the First Bush Administration,” 34(1), January 2010.
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
“George H.W. Bush: Strategy and the Stream of History,” in Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher Nichols, and Andrew Preston, eds., Rethinking Grand Strategy (New York: Oxford University Press, expected 2019).
“Hippocratic Diplomacy: George H.W. Bush’s First Year,” in Michael Nelson et al, Crucible: the President’s First Year (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018), 113-117.
“When the World is Going Your Way…Let It. The Hippocratic Foreign Policy of George H.W. Bush,” in Melvyn Leffler and William Hitchcock, eds., The Dangerous First Year: National Security at the Start of a Presidency (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018), also published as part of the Miller Center for Public Affairs POTUS2017 Project, http://firstyear2017.org/
“Beijing and Malta, 1989,” with Sergey Radchenko, in David Reynolds and Kristina Spoehr, eds. Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970-1990 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), 180-203.
“The Four Freedoms: FDR’s Legacy of Liberty for the United States and the World,” and “The Scene, the Phrase, and the Debate,” in Engel, ed., The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), 1-14 and 15-38.
“When George Bush Believed the Cold War Ended, and Why that Matters,” in Michael Nelson and Barbara Perry, eds, 41: Inside the George H.W. Bush Presidency (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014), 100-121.
“Bush, Germany, and the Power of Time: How History Makes History,” Diplomatic History, 37(4), September 2013, 639-663.
“The Gulf War at the End of the Cold War and Beyond,” in Engel, ed., Into the Desert: Reflections on the Gulf War, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 1-56.
“Diplomatic History’s Ill-Deserved Reputation and Bright Future,” Perspectives on History: Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, 50(9), December 2012, 41-43.
“Not Yet a Garrison State: Reconsidering Eisenhower’s Military-Industrial Complex,” Enterprise & Society, 12(1), March 2011, 175-199.
“‘A Better World…but Don’t Get Carried Away’: The Foreign Policy of George H.W. Bush Twenty Years On,” Diplomatic History, 34(1), January 2010, 25-46.
“Change is Hard…But Even Small Steps Matter,” in Cerami and Engel, eds., Rethinking Leadership and “Whole of Government” National Security Reform (Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2010), 187-208.
“1989: An Introduction to an International History,” in Engel, ed., The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989, Jeffrey A. Engel, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 1-35.
“Rethinking Leadership and ‘Whole of Government’ National Security Reform: Problems, Progress, and Prospects,” A Strategic Studies Institute Colloquium Brief, Joseph R. Cerami, Jeffrey A. Engel, and Lindsey Pavelka,” Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, December 2009.
“The Democratic Language of American Imperialism: Race, Order, and Theodore Roosevelt’s Personifications of Foreign Policy Evil,” Diplomacy and Statecraft 19(4), December 2008, 671-689.
“Over There…To Stay this Time: The Forward Deployment of American Basing Strategy in the Cold War and Beyond,” in Luis Rodrigues and Sergiy Glebov (eds.), Political and Social Impact of Military Bases: Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Challenges (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2008), 17-28.
“On Writing the Local within Diplomatic History: Trends, Historiography, Purpose,” co-authored with Katherine Carté Engel, in Engel, ed., Local Consequences of the Global Cold War (Palo Alto and Washington, DC: Stanford University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008).
“A Shrinking World: Transport, Communication, and Towards a Global Culture,” in Gordon Martel, ed., Companion to International History, 1900-2001 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), 52-64.
“Of Fat and Thin Communists: Diplomacy and Philosophy in Western Economic Warfare Strategies toward China (and Tyrants, Broadly),”Diplomatic History 29(3), June 2005, 445-474.
“The Surly Bonds: American Cold War Constraints on British Aviation,” Enterprise and Society 6(1), March 2005, 1-44.
“Hubris is the Handmaiden of Tragedy: Truman’s Lesson for Bush,” International Journal 60(1), Spring 2005, 531-543.
“A Politíca de Bases Norte-Americana no Imediato Pós-Guerra,” in Luis Nuno Rodriques, et al, eds., Portugal E O Atlântico: 60 Anos Dos Acordos Dos Açores (Lisbon: Centro de Estudos de História Contemporânea Poruguesa, 2005), 50-65.
“The Personification of Evil: Understanding Presidential Language in the New American Empire,” Clio’s Pysche 10(3), 2003, 57-69.
“The American Tendency to Personify Foreign Threats, from Thomas Jefferson to George W. Bush: A Note on American Diplomatic Rhetoric,” Political Internacional 25(2), 2002, 197-230.
“‘Every Cent from America’s Working Man’: Fiscal Conservatism and the Politics of International Aid after World War II,” The New England Journal of History 58(1), 2001, 20-60.
“‘We are Not Concerned Who the Buyer Is’: Engine Sales and Cold War Security at the Dawn of the Jet Age,” History and Technology 17(1), 2000, 43-67.
Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Magazines/Syndicated Columns
“Lest We Forget: The Lesson of D-Day for Americans Today,” The Washington Post, June 6, 2019.
“Impeachment Should Be a No-Brainer, no Matter What the Mueller Report Says,” The Washington Post, April 15, 2019.
“The Last of the Non-Chicken Hawks: What George H.W. Bush Learned about War by Serving in Combat,” New York Daily News, April 29, 2018.
“Bush 41 Could School Trump in the Art of the Quiet Deal,” USA Today, November 7, 2017.
“Trump Should Try Quiet Diplomacy,” The Houston Chronicle, October 19, 2017.
“Putin Wants to Make Russia Great Again, Too,” The Dallas Morning News, October 8, 2017.
“President Trump is Ignoring the Lesson of Two World Wars,” The Washington Post, July 10, 2017.
“No, Trump’s Presidency Won’t Be Unprecedented,” with Aaron Crawford, The Dallas Morning News, January 22, 2017
“Everything You Think You Know about Reagan is Wrong,” The Dallas Morning News, September 25, 2016.
“FDR Spoke for Everyone in the World,” The Catalyst, Fall 2016.
“No One Else to Trust: The Ultimate Logic of the Special Relationship,” The American Interest, June 4, 2015.
“What Brought Down the Berlin Wall?: How the U.S., China, Europe and Russian Answer is Shaping our Future,” The Los Angeles Times, November 1, 2014.
“Bush Center Can Help Chart Nation’s Future,” The Dallas Morning News, April 23, 2013.
“Evil Personified,” Project Syndicate (syndicated to 450 newspapers worldwide), October 28, 2009.
“The Velvet Delusion: 1989 and Lessons for the World Today,” Project Syndicate, November 27, 2009.
“The First Bush Presidency: Made in China,” The History News Network, August 4, 2008.http://hnn.us/articles/51902.html
“China Shaped Bush 41’s Policies,” The Eagle, May 4, 2008, A16.
“Enough Already, It’s Here to Stay! Why We Should Stop Probing and Prodding the Anglo-American Special Relationship,” Argentia, Newsletter of the British International Studies Association U.S. Foreign Policy Group, 2(1), Dec. 2007, 11-14.
“The Cuban Missile Crisis,” in John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds. Europe since 1914 (New York: Charles Scribners’ Sons, 2006), 742-746.
“The Comet Affair,” Air & Space Magazine, 18(3), 2003, 36-41.
“Great Britain, Relations With” in Stanley Kutler, et al., eds., Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002), Volume 4, 40-44.
“Technology”; “Aviation”; “Automobile Industry”; “ENIAC”; and “The Computer,” in Gary Nash and Allan Winkler, ed., Facts on File Encyclopedia of American History, vol. 9 (New York: Facts on File, 2002).
“The Cold War and Commercial Aviation,” in Walter Boyne, ed., Air Warfare: an International Encyclopedia (New York: ABC-CLIO, 2002), 141-142.
“The Comet Affair,” Air & Space Magazine, 18(3), 2003, 36-41.
“Great Britain, Relations With” in Stanley Kutler, et al., eds., Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002), Volume 4, 40-44.
“Technology”; “Aviation”; “Automobile Industry”; “ENIAC”; and “The Computer,” in Gary Nash and Allan Winkler, ed., Facts on File Encyclopedia of American History, vol. 9 (New York: Facts on File, 2002).
“The Cold War and Commercial Aviation,” in Walter Boyne, ed., Air Warfare: an International Encyclopedia (New York: ABC-CLIO, 2002), 141-142.
Book Reviews
Review of Susan Dunn, A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days that Mobilized America and Eric Rauchway, Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash over the New Deal, Reviews in American History, 47(2019), 428-435.
Author Response, Roundtable Review of When the World Seemed New, H-Net, December 2, 2018.
Author Response, Roundtable Review of When the World Seemed New, Passport, 49(1), April 2018, 30-31.
Review of Gregory F. Domber, Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the End of the
Cold War, Passport: The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Review, 49(1), 64-66.
Response to Roundtable Review of When the World Seemed New, Passport: The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Review, 49(1), April 2018, 30-31.
Review of Frederic Bozo, A History of the Iraq Crisis: France, the United States, and Iraq, 1991-1993, H-Diplo Roundtable Review, 19(5), October 2017.
Review of Katherine C. Epstein, Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain, H-Diplo Roundtable Review, 16(14), January 2015.
Introduction and Review of James Wilson, The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev’s Adaptability, Reagan’s Engagement, and the end of the Cold War, Passport, 45(2), September 2014, 35-36.
Review of G. John Ikenberry, Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order, Journal of American History, 99(2), June 2012, 368-369.
Review of Richard Immerman, Empire for Liberty, H-Diplo Roundtable Review, 2(3), February 2011.
Review of Norman A. Graebner, Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev: Revisiting the End of the Cold War, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 21(3), September 2010, 534-536.
Review of Gordon S. Barrass, The Great Cold War: a Journey Through the Hall of Mirrors, American Communist History, Forthcoming.
Response to H-Diplo Roundtable Review, “Diplomatic History Special Forum: Reconsidering the Foreign Policy of the First Bush Administration, Twenty Years on,” H-Net, XI(25), May 2010.
Review of Christopher Maynard, Out of the Shadow: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War, American Historical Review, 115(2), April 2010, 582-583.
Review of William Walker III, National Security and Core Values, Political Science Quarterly, 125(1), Spring 2010, 137-138.
Review of William Inboden III, Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960, Presidential Studies Quarterly, 40(2), June 2010, 383-384.
Review of Alan P. Dobson, Globalization and Regional Integration: The Origins, Development, and Impact of the Single European Aviation Market,” Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 10(3), September 2009, 458-459.
Review of the George Bush Presidential Museum,” Journal of American History, 95(3), December 2008, 792-794.
Review of Michael S. Goodman, Spying on the Nuclear Bear: Anglo-American Intelligence and the Soviet Bomb, American Historical Review, 113(5), December 2008, 1490-1491.
Review of Jonathan A. Grant, Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism, Business History Review, 81(1), Spring 2008, 184-186.
Review of Walter Hixson, The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy, H-Diplo Roundtable Review, June 15, 2008. h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/MythAmericanDiplomacy-Roundtable.pdf.
Review of Warren A. Chin, British Weapons Acquisition Policy and the Futility of Reform, 1945 to the Present, Journal of Cold War Studies, 9(2), Spring 2007, 179-181.
Review of David Nickles, Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy, International Journal 60(3), Summer 2005, 874-874.
Review Essay: Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack,” International Journal 59(3), Summer 2004, 722-726.
“Cleveland Seems a Good Place to Hide: A Review Essay of Edward P. Glazur’s Secret Assignment: the FBI’s KGB General,” American Communist History 1(1), 2002, 69-73.
Fellowships and Awards
SMU Faculty Member of the Year, Honoring Our Professor’s Excellence (HOPE) Award, 2019
Gerald J. Ford Research Fellowship, 2019
Ford HePowell Global Order and Foreign Policy Fellow, Tower Center for Political Studies, 2018
Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London, 2015
Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility Faculty Fellowship, 2015
Powell Global Order and Foreign Policy Fellow, Tower Center for Political Studies, 2013
Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Bernath Lecture Prize, 2012
Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2012
Texas A&M Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching, 2011
Texas A&M University Competitive Faculty Development Leave, 2011.
History News Network “Top Young Historian,” 2010Texas A&M University System Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award, 2010
Verlin and Howard Kruse ’52 Founders Professor, 2009-Present
Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, Texas A&M University, 2008
2008 Paul Birdsall Prize in European Military and Strategic History for Cold War at 30,000 Feet, American Historical Association
Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Summer Institute Participant, 2008
Bush Faculty Excellence Award (Annually Awarded to Outstanding Faculty Member), 2007
Evelyn and Ed F. Kruse ’49 Faculty Fellow, Awarded to Outstanding GBS Assistant Professor, 2006-2009
Visiting Fellow, International Security Studies, Yale University, 2007
Silver Star Award, Awarded by Graduating Students to Outstanding Bush School Professor, 2006
John M. Olin Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Studies, Yale University, 2001-2003
Visiting Fellow, Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Temple University, 2000-2001
Guggenheim Research Fellow (renewed), National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2000
Guggenheim Research Fellow, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1999-2000
Stull Holt Memorial Fellowship of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2000
United States Military Academy, West Point, Summer Teaching Fellow in Military History, 1999
Research Fellow, Harry S Truman Presidential Library Institute, 1999
Dissertation Research Fellow, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation, 1999
Visiting Research Fellow, Eisenhower World Affairs Council (Eisenhower Library), 1999
University of Wisconsin-Madison Vilas Fellow, 1997
Blattberg Writing Award, University of Wisconsin Department of History, 1997
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanistic Studies, 1995-1996
George Lustig Prize, Awarded to Outstanding History Department Graduate, Cornell University, 1995
Ford Foundation Scholar of the Cornell University Institute for Modern European Studies, 1994
National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar, 1993
Select Scholarly Presentations and Invited Lectures:
“Unfaking the News: Historians in the Media in the Era of Trump,” American Historical Association, 2019.
“Who Lost Russia?” Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado, 2018.
“When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War,” Foreign Policy
Research Institute and Temple University’s Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, November 2017.
“When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War,” Clements Center for
National Security, The University of Texas-Austin, November 2017.
“When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War,” Triangle Institute for
Security Studies, North Carolina, November 2017.
“Who Lost Russia?” St. Thomas University, October 2017.
“The Next President’s Foreign Policy Agenda,” University of Notre Dame International Security
Center (presentation in San Antonio), November 2016.
“FDR’s Four Freedoms,” Minnesota Historical Society, November 2016.
“The Gulf War: A Quarter-Century Retrospective,” George Bush Presidential Library, February 2016.
“When the World is Going Your Way…Let It. The Hippocratic Foreign Policy of George H.W. Bush,”
Woodrow Wilson Center, January 2016.
“Germany, Europe, and Unification: A Quarter Century’s Perspective,” St. Thomas University,
November, 2015
“American Strategy and Power since 1945,” University of North Texas Hurley Military History Seminar, November, 2015
“Unification: Then and Now,” Dallas Goethe Institute 25th Anniversary Celebration, October, 2015.
“Politics is Personal: Lessons from George Bush and German Unification,” Presidential Leadership Scholars, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, June 2015.
“Presidents, Policies, and History,” Duke University, February 2015.
“Plenary Forum: The Historical Legacy of George W. Bush,” The Presidency of George W. Bush, Hofstra University, February 2015.
“History and our Modern World,” The Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers (London Livery Company), January 2015
“The Future of Anglo-American Relations,” King’s College, London, November 2014.
“Keynote Address, George Bush Library and Museum 25th Anniversary Commemoration of the Fall of the Berlin Wall,” College Station, November 2014.
“Plenary Roundtable on 25 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall,” Society of Historians of America Foreign Relations, Lexington, June 2014.
“German Reunification and American Strategic Goals,” Cornell University, October 2013.
“On the Future of State Sovereignty,” The German Historical Institute, London, June 2013
“History and Strategic Thinking: A Primer for Aspiring Policymakers,”Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2013.
“Bush, Germany, and the Power of Time,” The Sorbonne, Paris, February 2013
“Memory, Meaning, and the Gulf War,” School of Oriental and Asian Studies, London, February 2013
“JFK and the Politics of Memory,” The 6th Floor Museum, Dallas, February 2013
“Reflections on the Gulf War,” Texas A&M University, January 2013
“Power at the Cold War’s End,” Norwegian Nobel Institute Seminar, April 2012
“The Politics of Ending the Cold War,” Princeton University Political History Seminar, April 2012.
“Memory, Cognitive Science, and Meta-Narratives: Deploying Oral History for ‘Good’,” Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Temple University, March 2012
“When the World Seemed New: American Foreign Policy in the Age of George H.W. Bush,” University of Virginia Miller Center Speaker’s Series, March 2012.
“What the Cold War’s End REALLY Meant, and When: The Bush Administration, in its Own
Words, and the Global Implications of their End of History,” The Miller Center, University of Virginia, Launch Conference for George H.W. Bush Presidential Oral History Project, October 2011.
“’Our Enemy is Instability’: The Evolving Nature of George H.W. Bush’s New World Order,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Alexandria, Virginia, June 2011.
“Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome: American Politics and Foreign Policy at the Cold War’s End,” Cambridge University, April 2011.
“1989 and the Lessons of History,” Texas Secondary Education Faculty Collaborative, College Station, May 2011.
“American Language and War, Jefferson to Today,” Duke University Sanford School, February 2010.
“What 1989 Means Today…and for Tomorrow,” The Mershon Center, The Ohio State University, January, 2010.
“Sino-American Relations Thirty Years after Recognition,” Confucius Institute, Rutgers University, November, 2009.
“What Technology Really Means For Strategy…Maybe,” Yale University Olin Conference, October 2009.
“What was all the fuss about? Reading Williams as a Sign of the Times,” Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of William Appleman Williams’ Tragedy of American Diplomacy, Rutgers University, April 2009.
“The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President,” Woodrow Wilson Center and New York University’s Center for the United States and the Cold War, Fall 2008.
“Theodore Roosevelt Language of American Imperialism,” Transatlantic Studies Association, 2008, Dundee, Scotland.
“Seeking Monsters to Destroy: The Language of American Wars from Jefferson to George W. Bush,” Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Ogden, Utah, April 2008.
“From Tripwire to Elvis’ Army: The Grand Strategy of American Base Policy in Cold War Europe,” NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Political and Social Impact of Military Bases, Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges, Institute of Military Studies, Lisbon, December 2007.
“Bush in China: How Foreign Service Changed the George H.W. Bush’s Presidency,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations 2007 Conference, Washington, D.C.
“Vietnam and the Viscount Conspiracy: How the American War in Vietnam Doomed the British Aircraft Industry,” Anglo-American Relations and the Vietnam Wars, University of Nottingham, March 2007.
“Teaching Strategy to Future Policymakers,” Perspectives on Teaching Grand Strategy, Yale University, March 2007.
“Peace of Illusions as Revisionist History: A Round Table Discussion of Christopher Layne’s Peace of Illusions,” 2006 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Diego.
“The Language of America’s Wars,” Clinton Centre for American Studies, University College-Dublin, March 2006.
“Seeking Monsters to Destroy: How the War on Terror Sounds to an Historian,” Yale University, International Security Studies Forum, March 2006.
“Torture as Strategy,” Texas A&M 2005 Forum on Torture and the War on Terror, College Station.
“Anglo-American Economic Warfare: Lessons for Sino-American Relations,” Beijing Forum: East Asia and the United States in the Age of Globalization, Beijing, 2006.
“Safeguarding the Skies: Fear, Morality, and Cold War Restraints on Aircraft and Aeronautics,” American Historical Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 2006.
“Bush in China: the Making of an Internationalist President,” Shanghai Institute of International Studies Symposium: Sino-US Relationship and Regional Security in Northeast Asia, Shanghai, 2005.
“Economic Warfare and Anglo-America: A Case Study of Sino-Western Trade Relations,” Shanghai Institute of International Studies Symposium: Sino-US Relationship and Regional Security in Northeast Asia, 2005.
“The Face of Evil: Rhetoric and War from Jefferson to George W. Bush,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations 2005 Conference, College Park, Maryland.
“Transitioning from Cold War to Terror: Developments in American Overseas Basing Policy since 2001,” Transatlantic Studies Association, University of Nottingham, 2005.
“Before Going to War, Try This…the Morality of Economic Warfare in Contemporary Diplomacy,” Baruch College Symposium on Preventative War, Invited Speaker, New York, 2004.
“Why Harm’s Way is Safer: American Global Base Policy during the Cold War,” Transatlantic Studies Association, University of Dundee, Scotland, 2004.
“Forward Deployed to Keep Out the World: American Cold War Base Policy,” Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Azores Treaty, Center for Portuguese Contemporary History, Lisbon, 2003.
“Balancing Public Needs and A Historian’s Creed,” Cold War Memory: Interpreting the Physical Legacy of the Cold War, The Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C., 2003.
“Aerospace and Foreign Policy: John F. Kennedy’s Atlantic Legacy,” The Kennedy Legacy: A Forty Year Perspective, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, 2003.
“Controlling Globalism’s Reach: Trade Controls and the Downfall of British Aerospace,” Business History 2003 Conference, Lowell, Massachusetts.
“Economic Warfare and Détente: Anglo-American Divisions over Technology Transfer and Development in Communist Asia,” Transatlantic Studies Association, Dundee, Scotland, 2002.
“Why Bin Laden Matters: Personalizing the Enemy as a Rhetorical Tool of American Foreign Policy,” and “A Means to Cross the Waters: Aviation and Atlantic Diplomacy,” Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Lisbon, 2001.
“On the Local Impact of Diplomacy: A Theoretical Exposition Grounded in the 1920s,” The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations 2001 Conference, Washington, D.C.
“Cold War at 30,000 Feet: Aircraft Diplomacy and Security Controls Under Ike and Churchill,” Organization of American Historians 2000 Conference, St. Louis.
“Fighting for Business in a Trade-Controlled World: The Effects of Anglo-American Technology Controls on British Aviation Firms,” Business History 2000 Conference, Stanford University.
“Anglo-American Aircraft Diplomacy and Technology Control in the Early Cold War,” Society for the History of Technology 1999 Conference, Detroit.
“‘Every Cent from America’s Working Man’: Fiscal Conservatism and American Foreign Policy in 1946,” The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations 1999 Conference, Princeton University.
“The Evolution of Anglo-American Trade Controls and British Aviation Exports Through 1975,” London School of Economics History Symposium, “COCOM: Government, Business and Strategic Technology During the Cold War,” London School of Economics, 1999.
Additional Presentations at the University of Pennsylvania, The Ohio State University, Yale University, Temple University, and The National Air and Space Museum.
Panel Commentator and Chair
“The End of the Cold War: New Evidence and New Approaches,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, 2017.
“Historical “Crises in American History,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Lexington, 2014.
“Presidential Peacemaking: President George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, 2013.
“Did GATT End the Cold War?” Transatlantic Studies Association, Durham, 2010.
“Rethinking the New Left and American Labor History,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Madison, Wisconsin, 2010.
“The Constitution and Guantanamo Bay,” Memorial Student Union Wiley Lecture Series, Texas A&M University, September 2009.
“Isolationism and Internationalism: The Western Hemisphere,” Transatlantic Studies Association, Canterbury, 2009.
“The Foreign Policy of George H.W. Bush: Twenty Years On,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations 2009 Conference, Washington, D.C.
“Wilsonianism: the History of a Conflicted Concept,” Transatlantic Studies Association, Dundee, 2008.
“Perspective to Policy: Competing Conceptions of U.S. National Interest in the Era of Franklin Roosevelt,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations 2008 Conference, Columbus
“Redefining NATO for the 21st Century,” Transatlantic Studies Association, University College-Cork, 2007
“Triangular Economics,” Transatlantic Studies Association, University College-Cork, Ireland, 2007
“Faith and Prejudice in Woodrow Wilson’s Foreign Policy,” 2005 James Barnes Club Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia.
“American Bases in Europe: Impact and Experience, 1945-2000,” The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations 2005 Conference, College Park, Maryland.
“Axis of Evil: the Next Step,” Memorial Student Union Wiley Lecture Series, Texas A&M University, November 2004.
“The Limits of Détente,” The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations 2003 Conference, Washington DC.
“New Angles on Kennedy’s Foreign Policy,” The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations 2000 Conference, Toronto.
Courses Taught:
Southern Methodist University
History of the American President, Fall 2012
Grand Strategies of War and Peace, Spring 2013, Fall 2014
SMU Summer Cultural Institute: Presidents and the West, 2013
SMU Summer Cultural Institute: Presidents and Wars of the West, 2014
SMU Summer Cultural Institute: Presidential Partnerships, 2015
SMU Summer Cultural Institute: Key Moments in American Foreign Affairs, 2016
SMU Summer Cultural Institute: Great (and Terrible) Presidential Speeches, 2017
SMU Summer Cultural Institute: Commanders in Chief, 2018
Feld Group Institute Junior Fellows Program Instructor, 2015
Junior Research Seminar in History, The End of the Cold War, Spring 2015
Presidential Leadership Scholars Seminar Instructor, 2015
Policy Capstone: Evaluating the Iran Nuclear Deal, Tower Scholars Program, Spring 2016
Presidents at War, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, 2019
Junior Research Seminar in History, The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fall 2017
European Diplomacy (SMU-in Oxford), 2018
American Political History since 1945 (Graduate Seminar), Spring 2019
Operation Overlord and the Liberation of France (SMU-in-Normandy), 2018, 2019
Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Summer Seminar (with Professor Mark A. Lawrence, University of Texas-Austin):
Decision-Making and the Uses of History. Weeklong seminar for advanced doctoral students and recent PhDs.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Summer Teaching Seminar
Post-Cold War America, 2015
Post-Cold War America, 2016
Presidents at War, 2018, 2019
Master’s Level, Texas A&M University
Grand Strategies of War and Peace
Qualitative Methods for International Policymakers
American Foreign Policy since 1945
Capstone: Understanding Communications Networks within the Iraqi Insurgency
Capstone: The ‘Peking Diary
Capstone: Dubai Ports World, and Internal History of a Political Debacle
Capstone: Modeling Homeland Security Risk on America’s Southern Border
Capstone: Estimating the Economic Costs of Espionage
Capstone: Assessing Cyber Risks to Homeland Infrastructure Security
Capstone: The Scowcroft Institute: Benchmarking, Assessment, Goals, Mission
Graduate Committees, Texas A&M University
Ph.D Committees: History – 6, Political Science -2, Geography – 1
Master’s Committees in History: History – 9
Undergraduate Level, Yale University and University of Pennsylvania
Grand Strategies of War and Peace
America in a Wider World, 1898-1991
After the War is Over: Comparing American Post-War Experiences
Technology and World Affairs in the Modern Era
Senior Seminar in International Relations
Professional and Public Service:
(Detailed list of public service/community lectures and programs available on request)
Program Co-Chair, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations 2018 Conference
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of History Board of Visitors, 2015-2019
Dallas Festival of Ideas Selection Panel: “The Political City,” 2014
Organization of American Historians Richard W. Leopold Book Prize Committee, 2012-2104.
Chair, Ferrell Book Prize Committee, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2013
Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Ways and Means Committee, 2011-2014
Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Ferrell Book Prize Committee, 2012
Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Diplomatic History Contract Negotiation Committee, 2011
Co-Director, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Summer Institute, 2010, “Decision-making and the Uses of History”
Executive Council, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2009-2011
Editorial Board Member, Diplomatic History, 2008-2011
Executive Committee, Transatlantic Studies Association, 2006-Present
Associate Editor, “The Post-Cold War Era,” Guide to American Foreign Relations since 1600, for the
Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Thomas Zeiler, ed., (Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, Online Edition, Ongoing).
Program Committee (International Economics), Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2007-2011.
Peer Reviewer, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Diplomatic History, Security Studies, Journal of American History, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Routledge Press, Edinburgh University Press, Cornell University Press, University Press of Florida, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, Texas A&M University Press.
College and University Service
Southern Methodist University
Director, Center for Presidential History, 2012-Present
Hunt Scholars Faculty Advisor, 2018-Present
Dean’s Research Council (Dedman College), Faculty Representative, 2019-present
Tate Lecture Series Board of Directors, Faculty Representative, 2016-2018
Tower Scholars Executive Committee, 2016-Present
“History and the Humanities at SMU,” Delivered for SMU Enrollment, National Association for College
Admission Planning National Conference, October 2015
Hunt Scholar Selection Committee (Interviewer) 2014-Present
Faculty Search Committee, John Tower Chair in International Affairs, 2012
Faculty Advisory Board, Jewish Studies Program, 2014-Present
Texas A&M:
Glasscock Center for the Humanities Executive Council, 2010
Texas A&M University Press Faculty Advisory Committee, 2010-2012
Admissions and Graduate Fellowship Committee, 2010-2011
Chair, Bush School Promotion and Tenure Evaluation Committee (single candidate), 2010
Chair, Chinese Foreign Policy Faculty Search Committee, 2010
Chair, Bush School Outstanding Faculty Award Committee, 2010
Director of Programming, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, 2009-Present
Faculty Search Committee, International Security, Bush School, 2009
By-Laws Revision Committee, Bush School, 2008-Present
Interim Director, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, 2008-2009
Associate Director, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, 2007-2008
Faculty Advisory Board, Program in American Studies, 2007-Present
MPIA Program PhD Consideration Committee, 2008-Present
Faculty Search Committee, Associate Director of the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Bush School, 2006
Faculty Search Committee, International Security, Bush School, 2006
Faculty Advisory Committee to the Vice President for Student Affairs, 2005-2007
By-Laws Revision Committee, Bush School, 2005-2006
Search Committee for the Director of Communications and External Relations, Bush School, 2005-06
Master’s Program in International Affairs Curriculum Committee, Bush School, 2005-2006
Faculty Search Committee, International Law and Area Specialist positions, Bush School, 2004-2005
Faculty Search Committee, International Security and East Asian Relations, Bush School, 2005-2006
Graduate Instruction Committee, Bush School, 2004-05, 2005-2006, 2010-2011.
Admissions and Graduate Fellowship Committee, 2004-2005
Coordinator, Bush School International Film Series, 2004-2007
Regent’s Mentor, 2004-2005
Aggie Ally, 2004-2012
Professional Associations
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations
Transatlantic Studies Association
Community Service
Brazos Valley American Civil Liberties Union, Board Member, 2007-2009
Congregation Beth Shalom Executive Board Member, 2010-Present
Congregation Beth Shalom Religious School Teacher (Hebrew High School), 2010-11
Guest Chef, Madden’s Gourmet 2009 Charity Dinner
Select Television and Radio Appearances Including
CNN, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, FOX4 Dallas, Al-Jazeera America, BBC, WGN, National Public Radio, Texas Public Radio, Dan Rather Presents, Huffington Post Live, KERA, WNYC, WBUR, WFAA, WTOP, Voice of Russia, C-SPAN.