Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

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THURSDAY, 25 JUNE 2009

SHAFR Council Meeting: 8:00AM – 12:45PM (Presidential Boardroom, 10th Floor)

Registration and Book Exhibit: 10:00AM – 5:00PM (Grand Foyer and Tickets Lounge)

Teaching Committee Meeting: 11:00AM – 1:00PM (Boardroom, 1st Floor)

Session I: 1:00PM – 3:00 PM

Panel 1: Why Do ‘They’ Hate ‘Us’?: Global Arab Reactions to U.S. Power in the Middle East, 1940s-1970s (Salon 1)

Chair: Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara

Pluralism, Patriotism, and Palestine: Arab American Activism, 1944-1948

Chapin Rydingsward, Ohio State University

‘We Have a Campaign of Hatred Against Us’: Arab Anti-Americanism, U.S. Street Diplomacy, and the 1958 Lebanon Crisis

Maurice Jr. Labelle, University of Akron

ll Guns Toward the Enemy: The Palestinian Resistance and the United States, 1968-1975

Paul Chamberlin, Ohio State University

Comment: James Goode, Grand Valley State University

Panel 2: Early American Foreign Relations Below the Level of the Nation-State (Great Falls)

Chair: David Fitzsimons, John Carter Brown Library at Brown University

Custom Houses, Local Power, and the Origins of the War of 1812

Gautham Rao, Rutgers-Newark and The New Jersey Institute of Technology

Banditti to Destroy: The Southern Borderland and the Jacksonian Theory of War

J. M. Opal, Colby College

Foreign Affairs and the Ratification of the Constitution in Virginia

Robert W. Smith, College of William and Mary

The Governors’ War: Heads of State and Interstate Coordination in the American Revolution

Cheryl Collins, University of Virginia

Comment: David Fitzsimons

Panel 3: Missionaries, Foreign Policy, and the American Self-Image, 1935-1990: New Cases, New Perspectives (Salon 3)

Chair: Jon Davidann, Hawai’i Pacific University

A Japanese Christian’s 1936 Tour of the U.S.: Inverting the Missionary Enterprise?

Robert Shaffer, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

The Missionary Factor in U.S.-Ethiopian Cold War Relations, 1941-1960

Philip Dow, Cambridge University

Religious Rights: Global Evangelicalism and the Origins of U.S. Religious Freedom Policy

Benjamin Brandenburg, Temple University

‘Going Native’: Radicalized Evangelical Missionaries in Central America during the 1970s and 1980s

Rod Coeller, American University

Comment: Jon Davidann

Panel 4: The U.S. and the Pacific Basin in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Falls Church)

Chair: Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University

From Nation-Building to Strategic Outpost: The Transformation of the U.S.-Philippines Relationship, 1942-1953

Wm. Christopher Hamel, Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics

Tools of Empire Reconsidered: Communications Technology and the Pacific Basin in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Jonathan R. Winkler, Wright State University

‘States Directly Concerned’: The U.S.-Soviet Dialogue over the Disposition of Micronesia and the Kuriles, 1945-1947

Hal Friedman, Henry Ford Community College

Comment: Dirk A. Ballendorf, University of Guam, Mangilao

Panel 5: Identity, Representation, and Cultural Conflict in U.S.-Latin American Relations, 1910-1985 (Salon 6)

Chair: James Siekmeier, West Virginia University

Race, Cosmopolitanism, and Postcolonial Struggle in Afro-Panamanian Media, 1910-1970

Katherine Zien, Northwestern University

The 1939 Love-Watson Murder Case: Violence, Gender, and Identity Conflict in World War II Panama

Michael Donoghue, Marquette University

Sport and Power in U.S.-Venezuelan Relations: Identity, the State, and the Venezolanización of America’s Pastime, 1955-1985

David Sheinin, Trent University

Comment: James Siekmeier

Panel 6: The Malleability of Law in American Empire (Vienna)

Chair: Peter J. Spiro, Temple University

The Keen and Fuzzy Edges of Sovereignty: Extraterritorial Crime, Extraterritorial Abduction, and Extradition in American Foreign Relations, 1886-1904

Daniel S. Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College

Between the Society of Nations and American Exceptionalism: Building the Discipline of International Law, 1898-1914

Benjamin Coates, Columbia University

Why Still Non-Incorporated? The Strange Existence of the United States‘ Island Territories

Bartholemew Sparrow, Univeristy of Texas at Austin

Reclaiming International Law From Extraterritoriality

Austen L. Parrish, Southwestern Law School

Comment: Peter J. Spiro

Panel 7: The Benefits of Ideological Analysis When Analyzing U.S. Foreign Policy (Salon 7)

Chair: Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma

A Neoconservative Administration? Bush, Liberalism, and Ideology

Brendon O’Connor, University of Sydney

The Clash: Realism and Democracy Promotion in the Foreign Policy of the Nixon Administration

Mark Phythian, University of Leicester

America’s Liberal Foreign Policy Ideology: 1941-1960

John Callaghan, University of Salford

Toward a Better World: LBJ, Niebuhr, and the Foundation of American Human Rights, 1964-66

Jared Phillips, University of Arkansas

Comment: Alan McPherson

Panel 8: India and the Cold War, 1947-1970 (Arlington)

Chair: Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University, Bloomington

‘India’s Rasputin’?: V.K. Krishna Menon and Anglo-American Misperceptions of Indian Foreign Policymaking, 1947-1962

Paul McGarr, University of Nottingham

Accelerating for Peace: Science, Technology, and the American Decade of Nuclear Research in India

Jahnavi Phalkey, Georgia Institute of Technology

Exercitatio Anatomica de Buddha

Jaideep A. Prabhu, Vanderbilt University

The Bandung Spirit: Indo-U.S. Propaganda from Bandung to Hungary

Eric Pullin, University of Wisconsin

Comment: Sumit Ganguly

Panel 9: The U.S. and China in the Cold War: The View from Southeast Asia (Salon 8 )

Chair: Gregg Brazinsky, George Washington University

Isolating the Enemy: Bandung Conference and Sino-American Relations

Tao Wang, Georgetown University

The Vietnam Card: The Nixon Administration, Zhou En-lai, and the Search for an ‘Honorable Withdrawal’ from Vietnam, 1969-1972

Chris Tudda, U.S. Department of State

Communism, Containment, and the Chinese Overseas, 1949-1969

Meredith Oyen, Hopkins-Nanjing Center

Comment: Gregg Brazinsky

Panel 10: Choc’late Soldiers from the USA: U.S. Armed Forces and Race Relations in Britain, 1942-45 (Salon 2)

Partial screening of the new documentary, with commentary by:

Neil Wynn, University of Gloucestershire

Gregory Cooke, Co-producer and writer

Thomas Guglielmo, George Washington University

BREAK: 3:00PM-3:30PM

Refreshments in the Grand Foyer and Tickets Lounge

Session II: 3:30PM – 5:30PM

Panel 11: Ethnicity and Race (Salon 1)

Chair: Sonja P. Wentling, Concordia College

Universal Standards or Special Interests?: The Ethnic Effect on Human Rights Policymaking

Joe Renouard, The Citadel

The Snubs and the Sukkah: New York City Mayor John Lindsay’s Municipal Foreign Policy

Jeffrey F. Taffet, United States Merchant Marine Academy

Herbert C. Pell, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Negro Problem

Graham Cox, University of Houston

This Handful of Semi-Civilized People Called the Haitian Nation: The Experiences of Ebenezer Bassett, the First African-American Minister to Haiti, 1869-77

Stephen E. McCullough, University of Indianapolis

Comment: Sonja P. Wentling

Panel 12: Education, Americanization, and Paternalism, 1868-1918 (Great Falls)

Chair: Lisa Jarvinen, La Salle University

Bringing Horace Mann’s Public Schools to the Argentine Republic: The Power of the Local and the Atlantic World Contexts, 1868-1898

Karen Leroux, Drake University

Educating the Sons of the Revolution: The Cuban Educational Association, 1898-1903

Lisa Jarvinen

The 1918 Dewey Report and Questions of Americanization in Philadelphia Parochial Schools

Francis Ryan, La Salle University

Comment: Charles Dorn, Bowdoin College

Panel 13: Assuming the Burden: Succeeding Britain in the Middle East (Falls Church)

Chair: Sanford Silverburg, Catawba College

‘Buffer or Lightning Rod?’: The US Commitment to Jordan in the Context of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1957-1965

Avshalom Rubin, University of Chicago

Towards the Nixon Doctrine: British Withdrawal from the Persian Gulf, 1964-1971

Shohei Sato, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford

The Truman Administration and Revolution in Egypt: The Language of Stability and Middle East Defense

Kelly McFarland, Office of Historian, U.S. Department of State

Couscous Mussolini: U.S. Perceptions of Gamal Abdel Nasser, 1952-1958

Richard McAlexander

Comment: Clea Bunch, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Panel 14: The Influence of U.S. Information Control Policies on the Structuring of German Cultural and Political Life, 1945-1949 (Vienna)

Chair: Rebecca Boehling, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Dresher Center for the Humanities

Survivors and Victims in the Frankfurt Press: The Development and Re-Development of the Frankfurter Rundschau, 1945-1949

Robert Williams, American University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Capturing the German Eye: American Visual Propaganda in Occupied Germany

Cora Sol Goldstein, California State University, Long Beach

Text, Context, Audience: Political Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin and the Struggle for Legitimacy During the Berlin Airlift, 1945-1949

Nicholas Schlosser, History Dvision, Marine Corps University, Quantico

Tod und Verklärung: Why Did the American Effort to Transform Classical Music Life Fail?

David Monod, Wilfrid Laurier University

Comment: Rebecca Boehling

Panel 15: Major Aspects of U.S.-Japan Relations: Comparing the Interwar Period and the 1970s (Arlington)

Chair: David Paull Nickles, U.S. Department of State

Two Interwar Japanese Diplomats’ Perceptions of the United States and Britain and Their Influence upon Japanese Diplomacy: The Cases of Shidehara Kijuro and Matsuoka Yosuke

Seung-Young Kim, University of Aberdeen

Coping with the Rise of a ‘New Major Power’: U.S. Foreign Policymaking in Relation to Japan under the Nixon/Ford Administrations

Liang Pan, University of Tsukuba

The Evolution of the U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy in the 1970s and U.S.-Japan Relations

Shinsuke Tomotsugu, George Washington University

Worlds Apart?: NSSM-122 and the Rebuilding of Post-Shocks U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1971

Fintan Hoey, University College, Dublin

Comment: Haruo Iguchi, Nagoya University

Panel 16: Re-Examining the First Bush Era: Twenty Years After Its Beginning (Salon 3)

Chair: Jeffrey A. Engel, Texas A&M University

The Rhetorical Trajectories of Tiananmen Square

Randy Kluver, Texas A&M University

Realism and Religion: Christian Responses to Bush’s New World Order

Andrew Preston, Clare College, University of Cambridge

Not One Inch Eastward: Bush, Baker, Kohl, Genscher, Gorbachev, and the Origins of Russian Resentment Toward NATO Enlargement

Mary Elise Sarotte, University of Southern California

Realism’s Practitioner: Brent Scowcroft and The Making of The New World Order, 1989-1993

Bartholomew Sparrow, University of Texas at Austin

Comment: Mark Kramer, Harvard University

Panel 17: Presidential Choices and National Security Decision-Making (Salon 2)

Chair: Richard H. Immerman, Temple University

What Did Nixon Learn from Eisenhower?

Anna Kasten Nelson, American University

Massive Extrapolation: Presidents and the Inflation of National Security Threats

John Mueller, Ohio State University

Dien Bien Phu, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Cognitive Calculus Theory

Lori Helene Gronich, Georgetown University

Commentators: Gary R. Hess, Bowling Green State University

Fred I. Greenstein, Princeton University

Panel 18: Lost in Translation: Transnational Exchange in the Cold War

(Salon 6)

Chair: Philip Nash, Pennsylvania State University, Shenango

Academic Ambassadors in the Middle East: Negotiating Higher Education in Turkey and Iran, 1955-1970

Richard Garlitz, University of Tennessee at Martin

‘Scaring the Shit Out of Honkey America‘: Che Guevara, Regis Debray, and the Weather Underground

Jeffrey Bloodworth, Gannon University

A Tough Audience: International Responses to Reagan’s Anticommunist Appeals

Jon Peterson, Ohio University

Comment: Kenneth Osgood, Florida Atlantic University

Panel 19: Roundtable: Race, Capital, and Empire (Salon 7)

Chair: Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania

Anne Foster, Indiana State University

Aims McGuinness, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Jason Colby, University of Victoria

Panel 20: The Fight at the Back Door: The U.S. in the Third World during the 1950s (Salon 8 )

Chair: David C. Engerman, Brandeis University

‘The Virgin Mary is Going South’: Refugee Resettlement in South Vietnam, 1954-1956

Jessica Breiteneicher Elkind, San Francisco State University

Publishing Culture: Franklin Publications, Inc. and the Global Imaginary of Integration in 1950s Cairo

Erin Glade, University of Chicago

‘Chicken Aid’: Point Four in Nasser’s Egypt

Amanda McVety, Miami University

Comment: David C. Engerman

Reception and Plenary: 5:30PM – 8:00PM

(Grand Foyer and Salons 4 & 5)

“Independent Media in a Time of War”

Amy Goodman, TV & Radio journalist, Democracy Now! daily grass roots global newshour broadcasting on 800 public TV and radio stations.

FRIDAY, 26 JUNE 2009

Registration and Book Exhibit 8:00AM – 5:00PM (Grand Foyer and Tickets Lounge)

Graduate Student Breakfast – Publishing Workshop: 7:30AM – 9:00AM (Salon 4)

DH Editorial Board Meeting: 7:30AM – 9:00AM (Presidential Boardroom, 10th Floor)

Refreshments: 8:00AM – 9:00AM (Grand Foyer and Tickets Lounge)

Session III: 9:00AM-11:00AM

Panel 21: European Perspectives on U.S. Foreign Relations from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush (Salon 1)

Panel co-sponsored by the Transatlantic Studies Association

Chair: Lloyd Ambrosius, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

How the British Sought to Overcome American Isolationism, 1900-50

John A. Thompson, Cambridge University

‘Allies are the Most Aggravating of People’: Great Britain and the United States from Wilson to Bush

Kathleen Burk, University College, London

A Gallic Exception in Europe? French Reactions to U.S. Foreign Relations from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush

Serge Ricard, Sorbonne Nouvelle, University of Paris III

Five German Images of the United States: 1919-1945-1947-1989-2003

Klaus Schwabe, RWTH Aachen

Comment: J. Simon Rofe, University of Leicester

Panel 22: White Shadows: Black Internationalist Rethinking of the World (Salon 2)

Chair: Joshua Guild, Princeton University

Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights: Black Women Radicals, the Cold War, and the Origins of Modern Black Feminism

Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Winter on the Equator: China’s Impact on the Radical Politics of Robert F. Williams

Robeson Frazier, University of California at Berkeley

Common Cause with All Forces Menacing the British Empire and the Capitalist World: New Negro Radical Internationalism from Harlem to London

Minkah Makalani, Rutgers University

Comment: Joshua Guild

Panel 23: Teaching Research in the Secondary Classroom (Great Falls)

Chair: Carol Jackson Adams, Webster University

Presenters: Student participants in National History Day competition.

Commentators: Jennifer Heckard, Friendship Collegiate Academy

Robert Shaffer, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

Panel 24: American Empire and Cultural Relations in the Twentieth Century (Salon 6)

Chair: Jessica Gienow-Hecht, University of Cologne

Marching to ‘Progress’: Music and Race in the Philippine Military Band during American Colonial Rule, 1898-1946

Mary Talusan Lacanlale, Tufts University

U.S. Musical Presentations and the Nature of Soft Power

Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State University

American Post-War Cultural Policy and Generalissimo Franco’s Vision of Iberian Painting, 1950-1959

Carmen de Michelle, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

State-Corporate Relations, Film Trade, and the Cold War: The Failure of MPEAA’s Strategy in Spain, 1945-1960

Pablo Leon Aguinaga, Georgetown University

Comment: Panel and the audience.

Panel 25: Coming through the Back Yard: Latin American and Caribbean Immigration and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1810-1988 (Falls Church)

Chair: Stephen G. Rabe, University of Texas at Dallas

The First Rafter Crisis: San Domingue Refugees, Cuba, and Immigration Policy in the Early Republic

Jared Hardesty, Boston College

Dangerous Migrants: Security and Race along the US-Mexican Border, 1942-1952

Robert S. Robinson, Ohio University

‘For Fear of Persecution’: Displaced Salvadorans and U.S. Refugee Policy in the 1980s

Stephen Macekura, University of Virginia

‘Nobody Wants These People’: Reagan’s Immigration Crisis and the Detention of Mariel Cuban Refugees at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas

Kristina Shull, University of California, Irvine

Comment: Darlene S. Rivas, Pepperdine University

Panel 26: Pillars and Axes: The Evolution of U.S. Policy in the Middle East (Salon 7)

Chair: David Schoenbaum, University of Iowa

At the Crossroads of Empire: U.S. Foreign Policy Doctrines and the Construct of the Middle East, 1902-2002

Osamah Khalil, University of California, Berkeley

U.S. Policy and the Disappearing Frontier of Modernity in the Middle East

Waleed Hazbun, Johns Hopkins University

Liability to Asset: Israel’s Periphery Pact and the Birth of the Special Relationship

Noa Schonman, University of Oxford

The Origins of the Nixon Doctrine in the Persian Gulf: A New Cold War History

Roham Alvandi, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford

Comment: Douglas Little, Clark University

Panel 27: The German States and the United States during the Civil War: A Central European Perspective (Salon 3)

Chair: Charles Hubbard, Lincoln Memorial University

Perceptual Asymmetry in the Longue Durée: North America as Seen from London and Berlin, 1701-1870

Matt Schumann, Eastern Michigan University

North, South, and Prussia: Three German Perspectives on the Civil War

Michael Löffler, City Museum of Zwickau

Kladderadatsch, Economics, and the International Context: Reinterpreting the Role of Central Europe in the Civil War

Niels Eichhorn, University of Arkansas

Comment: Donald A. Rakestraw, Georgia Southern University

Panel 28: Alternatives to War and Occupation in the Twentieth Century

(Salon 8 )

Chair: Edward P. Crapol, College of William and Mary

Red Crossings: Humanitarian Assistance and the Grounding of U.S. Political and Cultural Internationalism

Julia F. Irwin, Yale University

Trans-Atlantic Pacifism, Irreconcilable Isolationism, and the Outlawry of War Movement

Christopher Nichols, University of Virginia

Pacific Internationalisms in the Naval Treaty Age, 1919-1941

Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Southern College Students and the Vietnam War

Joseph Fry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Comment: Panel and the audience.

Panel 29: Britain in the Backyard: United States-Great Britain Relations in the Western Hemisphere (Vienna)

Chair: Martin Folly, Brunel University

The ‘Hemisphere Isolationists’ and Anglo-American Relations in South America during World War II

Thomas Mills, Brunel University

Thin End of the Wedge: Anglo-American Relations and the British West Indies, 1939-46

Charlie Whitman, University of Wales Institute

Our Man in Havana, Our Ally in Washington: Anglo-Cuban Relations, 1959-64

Chris Hull, University of Nottingham

Retiring an Imperial Grandfather: Anglo-American Disputes in the British West Indies at the End of Empire, 1953-1983

Spencer Mawby, University of Nottingham

Comment: Jason Colby, University of Victoria

Panel 30: Humanitarians, Scientists, and Human Rights Activists: Transnational Networks and Outsider Diplomacy in the 1970s and 1980s (Arlington)

Chair: Akira Iriye, Harvard University

Catholic Relief Services, the Reagan Administration, and American Soft Power in Poland, 1980-1986

Gregory F. Domber, University of North Florida

Helsinki Watch and the Transnational Campaign for Human Rights in Eastern Europe

Sarah Snyder, Yale University

‘For Our Soviet Colleagues’: Scientific Internationalism, Human Rights, and the Cold War

Paul H. Rubinson, University of Texas at Austin

Comment: Andrew J. Falk, Christopher Newport University

Luncheon: 11:00AM – 1:00PM (Salon 4 & 5 – Pre-registration required)

After FDR’s Death: Dangerous Emotions, Divisive Discourses, and the Abandoned Alliance

Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut, SHAFR President

Session IV: 1:00PM – 3:00PM

Panel 31: Roundtable: What’s in a Name?: Diplomatic History and the Future of the Field (Salon 1)

Moderator: Thomas Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder

Matthew Connelly, Columbia University

Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles

Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne

Robert J. McMahon, Ohio State University

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, University of Kentucky

Emily Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine

Panel 32: Religion and American Encounters Abroad, 1840-1920 (Salon 2)

Chair: Joseph Henning, Rochester Institute of Technology

Racism and American Encounters with European Catholicism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Daniel Kilbride, John Carroll University

Empire and the Attractions of Catholicism: American Protestants in the Philippines, 1898-1910

Kate Moran, Johns Hopkins University

American Protestant Missionary Medical Work for Chinese Women and the Rockefeller Commission Critique, 1914

Connie Shemo, State University of New York at Plattsburgh

Comment: Joseph Henning

Panel 33: Thinking Outside the Beltway: Comparative and World Historical Perspectives on Foreign Relations (Salon 6)

Chair: Walter Nugent, University of Notre Dame

The Peace of Westphalia, the Federalist Papers, and Contradictory Approaches to State Sovereignty

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, San Diego State University

Imperial Layers: How an Indigenous Empire Paved the Way for the Rise of the U.S. Empire

Pekka Hamalainen, University of California, Santa Barbara

Revisiting ‘The World According to Washington‘: The Post-London Scholarship on United States-Chilean Relations

James Lockhart, University of Arizona

Comment: Robert Pastor, American University

Panel 34: Women’s Efforts to Shape U.S. Foreign Policy, 1900-1950

(Falls Church)

Chair: Jennifer M. Morris, College of Mt. Joseph

Early Ventures in Foreign Diplomacy: Vira Boarman Whitehouse and Florence Jaffray Harriman

Susan Goodier, Independent Scholar

Gendering the Good Neighbor: Women and U.S.-Mexican Relations, 1928-1939

Megan Threlkeld, Denison University

‘Taking the Initiative on Behalf of U.S. Policy’: The Role of Women’s NGOs in the Creation of U.S. Policy on Women’s Human Rights in the United Nations, 1945-1948

Jo Butterfield, University of Iowa

Comment: Jennifer M. Morris

Panel 35: The Politics of Cultural Connection: Ideology, Race, and the Invention of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy (Salon 3)

Chair: Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University

Selling Racial Democracy: U.S. State Cultural Policy in Brazil, 1930-1945

Jessica Graham, University of Chicago

‘To finance from the sale of war junk a world-wide system of educational exchange’: The Fulbright Program and the Foundations of American Cultural Globalism, 1945-1950

Sam Lebovic, University of Chicago

Cultural Diplomacy, African Independence, and the Cold War, 1953-1964

Karen Bell, Morgan State University

Comment: Laura Belmonte

Panel 36: Non-Governmental Actors in U.S.-Mexican Bilateral Relations:

New Visions (Great Falls)

Chair: Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University

Mexican and American Travelers in the Neighbor Country, 1820-1830

Marcela Terrazas, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Business and Diplomatic Strategies in the Economic Relationship between the United States and Mexico in the 1930s

Paolo Riguzzi, Colegio Mexiquense

The Role of Science in U.S.-Mexican Relations: The Case of Astronomy

Patricia de los Rios Lozano, Universidad Iberoamericana

Comment: Jocelyn Olcott

Panel 37: Atoms for Profit: The Nuclear Industry and Cold War Politics

(Salon 7)

Chair: Jonathan R. Winkler, Wright State University

A New Atomic Diplomacy: Atoms for Peace and the Creation of an International Market for Nuclear Technology

Mara Drogan, SUNY Albany

The ‘Peaceful Atom’ in Post-War Eastern Europe: Soviet Responses to Eisenhower’s Program

Sonja D. Schmid, Virginia Tech

Commercial Liberties and Nuclear Anxieties: The German-American Feud over Brazil, 1975-1977

William Glenn Gray, Purdue University

Comment: Stuart Leslie, Johns Hopkins University

Panel 38: Public Understandings of the Vietnam War (Arlington)

Chair: Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago

Images of Destruction: Agent Orange in the Popular and Political Culture

Michelle Mart, Penn State University, Berks

The Strange Career of the Powell Doctrine

Patrick Hagopian, Lancaster University

Private Contractors, Nation Building, and the Wars in Vietnam and Iraq

James M. Carter, Drew University

Partisan Politics and the ‘Lessons’ of Vietnam

Marianna P. Sullivan, The College of New Jersey

Comment: Mark Philip Bradley

Panel 39: The U.S. and Third World Military/Authoritarian Governments during

the 1960s and 1970s (Vienna)

Chair: David F. Schmitz, Whitman College

The Alliance for Progress and the Bolivian Coup d’Etat of 1964

Thomas Field, London School of Economics

Detente and the Global South

Matias Spektor, Getúlio Vargas Foundation

The Rockefeller Mission and the ‘New Latin American Military’ in Brazil and Panama, 1969

Andrew J. Kirkendall, Texas A&M University

O Brother Where Art Thou? Chilean Perspectives on U.S.-Chilean relations, 1973-1976

Tanya Harmer, London School of Economics

Comment: David F. Schmitz

Panel 40: The Early Years of the U.S. State Department’s African Bureau: A Roundtable in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Its Formation (Salon 8 )

Chair: Tim Borstelmann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Andy DeRoche, Front Range Community College

George White, York College, City University of New York

James Meriwether, California State University, Channel Islands

Thomas Noer, Carthage College

Comment: Panel and the audience.

Panel 41: That 70s Show: Continuity and Change in Perceptions of U.S. Global Interests (Presidential Boardroom, 10th Floor)

Chair: Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars

The Epiphany Effect: Linking Overpopulation, Food Shortages, and Women’s Issues at the Dawn of the Globalized Age, 1965-1975

William McAllister, U.S. Department of State

Human Rights or Cold War?: U.S. Policy toward Africa in the 1970s

Louise Woodroofe, U.S. Department of State

U.S.-Korea Relations during the Carter Administration: A Pluralistic Approach

Bonnie Sue Kim, U.S. Department of State

Comment: Christian Ostermann

BREAK: 3:00PM-3:30PM

Refreshments in the Grand Foyer and Tickets Lounge

Session V: 3:30PM – 5:30PM

Panel 42: Transatlantic Conversations: Visions of Order and Conflict in the German-American Atlantic of the Nineteenth Century (Falls Church)

Chair: Dirk Bönker, Duke University

Vindicating Commerce: German-American Trade and the Estatist Cosmopolitanism of Wilhelm Kiesselbach

Lars Maischak, California State University, Fresno

Now and Then: The Concept of Occupation in Francis Lieber’s Code

Rotem Giladi, University of Michigan

Manifest Destiny as Lebensraum: German-American Transnationalism and the Geopolitical Imagination

Bradley Naranch, Stanford University

Comment: Dirk Bönker

Panel 43: Black Soldiers and Veterans in the Early Twentieth Century (Salon 3)

Chair: Gerald Horne, University of Houston

‘Give Us a Chance: Give Us a Leadership’: U.S. Black Soldiers in Occupied Cuba, 1898-1902

Sara Berndt, George Washington University

The World’s Experience: African American Activists and World War I

Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University

Jim Crow Goes Abroad: African-American Servicemen and the International Politics of Race during World War II

Thomas A. Guglielmo, George Washington University

Global Double Victory: African-Americans, India, and the Second World War

Nico Slate, Harvard University

Comment: Gerald Horne

Panel 44: Foreign and Domestic: Re-examining U.S./European Relations in the Nineteenth Century (Salon 2)

Chair: Kelly Gray, Towson University

From Strategic Foothold to Imperial Periphery: A Re-examination of the Oregon Boundary Negotiations

Jon M. Flashnick, Arizona State University

‘Prevent them from taking part against us’: James K. Polk, Fear of Foreign Intervention in the Mexican War, and Raising of the Mormon Battalion

Gerritt Dirkmaat, University of Colorado, Boulder

‘Doctrines which may be unsound’: Intervention, Popular Enthusiasm, and Louis Kossuth’s Visit to the United States, 1851-2

Jeffrey J. Malanson, Boston College

Reconstructing Worldviews: American Interest in International Developments after the Civil War

David Prior, University of South Carolina

Comment: Scott Kaufman, Francis Marion University

Panel 45: The United States and the British Empire, 1789-1815 (Presidential Boardroom, 10th floor)

Chair: J. C. A. Stagg, University of Virginia

‘You Will Cause to be Removed, as heretofore Prescribed’: Official and Popular Responses to Perceived Threats from British Alien Enemies in the United States during the War of 1812

(John O’Keefe, George Washington University

The Bombardment of Copenhagen and the Coming of the War of 1812

David Paull Nickles, U.S. Department of State

A ‘Full and Ample Retaliation’: Prisoners of War and Citizenship in the War of 1812

David Dzurec, University of Scranton

Anglo-American Relations on the Frontier and the War of 1812

Tom Kanon, Tennessee State Library and Archives

Comment: Richard Buel, Wesleyan University

Panel 46: Ambassadors: Official and Unofficial (Great Falls)

Chair: David F. Schmitz, Whitman College

‘Bread, Spaghetti, but No Fascisti’: Charles Poletti and the American Military Government in Italy, 1943-45

Kimber M. Quinney, California State University, San Marcos

The ‘Heroine’ of Dien Bien Phu and the Resurrection of Franco-American Relations

Kathryn Statler, University of San Diego

Diplomacy of Quiet Candor: John Sherman Cooper’s Tenure as Ambassador to India, 1955-1956

Andrew L. Johns, Brigham Young University

‘To See Is to Believe’? Modernization, Private Actors, and U.S.-China Relations in the 1970s

Mao Lin, University of Georgia

Comment: David F. Schmitz

Panel 47: A Complicated Friendship: Japan in the United States since

World War II (Salon 6)

Chair: Sayuri Shimizu, Michigan State University

Ambassadors of Common Humanity: Japanese Fulbright Students and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1949-1964

Shuji Otsuka, Northwestern University

Friendship through Flowers: American Ikebana and Bonsai Enthusiasts in the Post-World War II Era

Meghan Warner, University of Iowa

Ohayo: (Good) Morning Again in Marysville

Andrew McKevitt, Temple University

Comment: Sayuri Shimizu

Panel 48: Empire without Borders: U.S. Imperial Ambitions in Global Spaces, 1900-1939 (Salon 1)

Chair: Emily Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine

Under the Forceful Guidance of a Progressive Government: American Visions of the Dutch East Indies, 1900-1930

Gregory W. Swedberg, Northern Illinois University

Letters from Africa: Celestine Smith and the YWCA in Nigeria, 1930-1939

Karen Phoenix, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

‘A Man’s Size Job’: American Masculinity in the Occupation of North Russia, 1918-1919

David Greenstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

‘New’ Empire Goes Primitive: Roads Construction in the Early U.S. Colonial Philippines

Rebecca McKenna, Yale University

Comment: Elisa Miller, Rhode Island College

Panel 49: Globalizing Foreign Policy: The Rise of Transnational Politics (Arlington)

Chair: Brad Simpson, Princeton University

Misgivings: The American Diplomatic Establishment and the Institute of Pacific Relations in the 1950s

Michael Anderson, University of Texas, Austin

The United States and the Formation of International Guidelines for Multinational Corporations in the 1970s

Vernie Oliveiro, Harvard University

Strategies and Networks: The Origins of Human Rights Watch and Transnational Public Policy

Katherine Scott, Temple University

The Struggle against Transnational Resistance: The East German Ministry for State Security, Charta 77, and Opposition in East Germany, 1977-1980

Doug Selvage, Office of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records

Comment: Brad Simpson

Panel 50: Media, Culture, and Intelligence in the Cold War (Salon 7)

Chair: Thomas Zeiler, University of Colorado, Boulder

Crusade for Freedom: The CIA, the Advertising Council, and the Selling of the Cold War

Kenneth Osgood, Florida Atlantic University

Anti-communism, Millenarianism, and the Challenges of Cold War Patriarchy: The Many Lives of Herbert Philbrick

Veronica Wilson, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

Building an Anti-Communist Network in Hollywood: FBI, HUAC, and the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals

John Sbardellati, University of Waterloo

Comment: Chester Pach, Ohio University

Panel 51: Searching for Stability in West Africa: The United States, Guinea, and Ghana (Vienna)

Chair: John Kent, London School of Economics

Confederation as a Counterweight to Decolonization: The United States and the Concept of West African and Maghrebian Confederations, 1956-1958

Daniel Byrne, University of Evansville

A New Look for Ghana: Africa, the United States, and the Politics of Third World Nationalism

Brian Edward McNeil, University of Texas, Austin

‘Africa for the Africans’: The United States of America Confronts the United States of Africa

Mairi MacDonald, University of Toronto

Comment: John Kent

Panel 52: The Politics of Withdrawal (Salon 8 )

Chair: Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma

The British in Iraq

Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Latin America

Alan McPherson

Germany

Petra Goedde, Temple University

Japan

Michael Schaller, University of Arizona

Vietnam

Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University

FILM SCREENING: 7:30PM – 9:30PM (Salon 3)

Preview screening and panel discussion of selections from Manifest Destiny, a documentary on U.S. empire, JAK Films, producers David Schneider and Sharon Wood.

SATURDAY, 27 JUNE 2009

Registration and Book Exhibit: 8:00AM -5:00PM (Grand Foyer and Tickets Lounge)

Mentoring at Breakfast: Sponsored by the Women’s Committee and the Membership Committee: 7:30AM – 9:00AM:  (Salon 4)

Refreshments: 8:00AM – 9:00AM (Grand Foyer and Tickets Lounge)

Session VI: 9:00AM – 11:00AM

Panel 53: Roundtable: ‘Marking Time’ Three Decades Later: Charles S. Maier and the Study of The History of American Foreign Relations (Salon 1)

Chair: Tom Schwartz, Vanderbilt University

Gunter Bischof, University of New Orleans

Robert Mark Spaulding, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Mark Kramer, Harvard University

Comment: Charles S. Maier, Harvard University

Panel 54: Recasting Transatlantic Partnerships: Transnational Protest Cultures in Cold War German-American Relations (Great Falls)

Panel sponsored by the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

Chair: William Glenn Gray, Purdue University

GIs, Civil Rights, and the U.S. Military in Germany

Maria Höhn, Vassar College

Countering The Other Alliance: Transatlantic Student Protest and the U.S. Department of State in 1960 and 1970s

Martin Klimke, Heidelberg Center for American Studies

Nuclear Armament and the Transatlantic Peace Movement of the 1980s

Philipp Gassert, University of Heidelberg

Comment: Jessica Gienow-Hecht, University of Cologne

Panel 55: Culture, Morality, and Patriotism in Ronald Reagan’s Foreign Policies (Salon 6)

Chair: Stephen G. Rabe, University of Texas at Dallas

Convincing the Vatican: The Reagan Administration, the Roman Catholic Church, and Foreign Policy

Marie Gayte, University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle

Ronald Reagan and America’s Providential Mission

Bradford D. Johnston, University of California at Merced

The Power of the National Imaginary: Reagan’s Foreign Policy and Libya

Christine Lober, University of Akron

Cold War Rhetoric and Policy: The Case of the Reagan Administration’s War on Nicaragua

Roger Peace, Andrew College

Comment: M. Todd Bennett, U.S. Department of State

Panel 56: Leading Them to the Promised World?: Race, Religion, and Wilsonian Foreign Policy, 1912-1921 (Salon 7)

Chair: Sayuri Shimizu, Michigan State University

Before the Cheering Started: Japanese and African-American Disillusionment with Wilsonian Democracy, 1913-1919

Robert Kane, Niagara University

That Unspeakable Person: Henry Lane Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, and the Mexican Revolution

Mark Benbow, Marymount University

Damned Logic and Stubborn Facts: The Application of Patterns of Faith to the International Policies of the Wilson Administration

Malcolm Magee, Michigan State University

Wilson, Darwin, and Calvin: The Confluence of Evolutionism and Millennialism in Woodrow Wilson’s Vision of Progress

Matthew Phillips, Kent State University

Comment: Sayuri Shimizu

Panel 57: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Construction of American Identity: Russia as the Other, Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Centuries (Falls Church)

Chair: David Foglesong, Rutgers University

Russia Under American Eyes: Formative Period, Mid-Nineteenth Century

Ivan Kurilla, Volgograd State University

The Russian Other in the Context of U.S. Foreign Policy during the First Crisis in Russian-American Relations

Victoria Zhuravleva, Russian State University of the Humanities

America’s Jews versus Russia’s Tsars: The Struggle Over Jewish Persecution, 1881-1917

Henry Ryan, Independent Scholar

American Philanthropy in Soviet Russia in the 1920s: Learning and (Re)constructing the Russian Other On Practice

Yulia Khmelevskaya, South Ural State University

Comment: David Foglesong

Panel 58: Roundtable: Looking South: Moving Between Regions in U.S.-Third World Relations (Salon 8 )

Chair: Robert J. McMahon, Ohio State University

Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University

Jason C. Parker, Texas A&M University

Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Yale University

Panel 59: The Body Politic: Public Health and Women’s Bodies in the International Arena, 1970s-1990s (Salon 3)

Chair: Matthew Connelly, Columbia University

‘The Ovaries Are Not Catholic’: Global Culture Wars and Transnational Pro-Life Networks, 1970-1990

Katie Slattery, University of New South Wales

‘Dangerous, Contagious, Outrageous (?)’: The 1987 HIV Travel/Immigration Ban

Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University

A Problem of Islam?: The Anti-Female Genital Mutilation Campaign in the United States

Kelly Shannon, Temple University

Comment: Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University

Panel 60: U.S.-Francophone Africa Relations, the Cold War, and the Limits of Bilateralism (Arlington)

Chair: Philip E. Muehlenbeck, George Washington University

The United States’ Relations with Francophone Africa in the 1960s: The French Challenge

Olivier Courteaux, Ryerson University

Between Worlds: Public Diplomacy, Race, and the Cold War in 1950s French West Africa

Louisa Rice, Drury University

Triangulating the Decolonization of French West Africa: The United States, France, and Guinean Independence, 1957-1961

Abou Bamba, Hobart and William Smith College

Comment: Edouard Bustin, Boston University

Panel 61: New Perspectives on Nuclear Arms and the Cold War (Salon 2)

Chair: J. Samuel Walker, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Irradiated Ally: The United States, Japan, and Nuclear Testing, 1954-1963

Jonathan Hunt, University of Texas at Austin

Buying Fallout?: Cold War Policy Consumption as a Factor in Diplomatic Agendas

Mike Lehman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Accelerated Action: North Carolina Civil Defense Agency and the Cuban Missile Crisis, October – December 1962

Frank Blazich, North Carolina State University

Scenarios for Survival: Portrayals of Nuclear War in Soviet and American Civil Defense Manuals, 1954-1972

Edward Geist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Comment: Paul H. Rubinson, University of Texas at Austin

Panel 62: Transnational Organizations and Interwar Social Movements (Vienna)

Chair: Mark Gilderhus, Texas Christian University

A World Against Conflict: The Transnational Effort to Punish and Abolish War, 1919-1929

Binoy Kampmark, RMIT University

Booze and Batllismo: The WCTU in Uruguay, 1910-1930

James Knarr, Texas Christian University

‘Oppressed Peoples and Oppressed Nations Unite!’: The League Against Imperialism, Indian Nationalism, and the Making of Transnational Anti-Imperial Networks, 1927-1929

Michele Louro, Temple University

Awkward Anti-Imperialist: Missionary Networks and the Christian Internationalist Turn After Wilson

Michael Thompson, University of Sydney

Comment: Mark Gilderhus

Luncheon: 11:00AM – 1:00PM (Salon 4 & 5)

Diplomat Among Warriors: Reflections on the Foreign Service and the Uses of History

Ambassador Eric Edelman

Ambassador Eric Edelman (ret.) was Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2005-2009) and is a Visiting Fellow at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Session VII: 1:00PM – 3:00PM

Panel 63: Roundtable: Thinking with Empire in U.S. International History (Salon 6)

Chair: Paul Kramer, University of Iowa

Charles Bright, University of Michigan

Charles S. Maier, Harvard University

Marilyn Young, New York University

Panel 64: Clare Boothe Luce and U.S. Foreign Relations (Salon 2)

Chair: Catherine Forslund, Rockford College

Acid-Tongued Diplomat: Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce

Philip Nash, Pennsylvania State University, Shenango

Clare Boothe Luce and ‘Total Cold War’ in Italy

Alessandro Brogi, University of Arkansas

Clare Boothe Luce and Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu

Heather Stur, University of Southern Mississippi

Comment: Ralph Levering, Davidson College

Panel 65: Contested Skies: The Role of Civil Aviation in International Relations (Salon 3)

Chair: Dominick A. Pisano, National Air and Space Museum

‘There Must Be Something To These Americans’: Lindbergh in Latin America, 1927-28

Jenifer Van Vleck, Yale University

No Japanese in the Cockpit: How the U.S. Banned and then Rehabilitated Civil Aviation in Japan

Chihyung Jeon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Keeping the Soviets Out of African Air: U.S.-U.S.S.R. Competition for African Civil Aviation Markets and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1961-1963

Philip E. Muehlenbeck, George Washington University

Jetting to Dominance: The Quest for International Markets in the Commercial Aircraft Industry

Annemarie Spadafore, Miami University

Comment: John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology

Panel 66: China in the U.S.-Japan Relationship, 1952-1972, and Its Relevance to Today (Great Falls)

Chair: Robert Eldridge, Osaka University

The Reversion of Okinawa and the Handling of the Senkaku/Diaoyutai Islands, 1969-1972

Robert Eldridge

U.S.-Japan Intelligence Cooperation against the People’s Republic of China in the Early Days of the Cold War: Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru’s ‘Counter Infiltration’ Plan vis-à-vis China, 1952-1954

Masaya Inoue, Kobe University

Challenging the Cold War Consensus: Japan’s Search for Regional Security in the 1950s and the U.S. Response

Ayako Kusunoki, Osaka University

Comment: Marc Gallicchio, Villanova University

Panel 67: A Celebration of Edward C. Keefer, Former U.S. Department of State Historian (Salon 7)

Sponsored by SHAFR Historical Documentation Committee

Chair: Erin Mahan, National Defense University

John Carland, U.S. Department of State

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, San Diego State University

Craig Daigle, City College of New York

Steven G. Galpern, U.S. Department of State

David C. Geyer, U.S. Department of State

Gerald Haines, University of Virginia

Robert J. McMahon, Ohio State University

Robert Schulzinger, University of Colorado, Boulder

James Siekmeier, West Virginia University

James Van Hook, Open Source Center

Thomas Zeiler, University of Colorado, Boulder

Philip Zelikow, University of Virginia

Panel 68: Teaching the White House Tapes: An Introduction to the Resources of the Miller Center of Public Affairs (Salon 1)

Sponsored by SHAFR Teaching Committee

Chair: Mark A. Stoler, Williams College and George C. Marshall Foundation

David Coleman, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia

K. C. Johnson, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center

Marc Selverstone, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia

Jeff Woods, Arkansas Tech University

Commentators: Mitchell Lerner, Ohio State University-Newark

Matt Masur, St. Anselm College

Panel 69: Decolonization and the Cold War in the 1960s (Salon 8 )

Chair: Andrew L. Johns, Brigham Young University

The U. N. Debates on Algeria, 1958-1962

Toby Glyn, Queen Mary, University of London

‘The Historical Imperatives of the Day’: The Fall of Goa in a Broader Context

Robert B. Rakove, University of Virginia

The United States, Israel, and the Congo, 1962-1965

Zach Levey, University of Haifa

Territory and Freedom: The Invention of Namibia in the Cold War Arena

Ryan Irwin, Ohio State University

Comment: Jason C. Parker, Texas A&M University

Panel 70: Domestic Affairs Outside, Global Affairs Within, 1947-53: Toward a Socio-Cultural International History of the Cold War (Falls Church)

Chair: Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University

Whispering Gallery: People, Societies, and States, and the Social Construction of the Cold War, 1947-1950

Hajimu Masuda, Cornell University

Responses and Interactions of Chinese Masses and Government during the Movements of Opposing the U.S. Support of Japan, 1948

Chen Wei, Nanjing University

American Images of China during the Korean War, 1950-1953

Lu Sun, Vanderbilt University

Is This American Freedom? The Cold War Persecution of Paul Robeson

Lori Clune, California State University, Fresno

Comment: Richard Filipink, Western Illinois University

Panel 71: Debating American Foreign Policy and Its History: The French Connection (Arlington)

Chair: Frédéric Guelton, Service historique de la Défense

The Historiography’s Western Front: Pierre Renouvin and the American Debate over Reparations and the Origins of the First World War, 1919-1936

Andrew Barros, Université du Québec à Montréal

French Lessons from Indochina: Paul Mus and the American Debate over the Legitimacy of the Vietnam War. 1965-75

Christopher Goscha, Université du Québec à Montréal

Power by Proxy: French Geopolitics and American Foreign Policy since the 1970s

Pierre Grosser, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po

Comment: Fred Logevall, Cornell University

BREAK: 3:00PM-3:30PM

Refreshments in the Grand Foyer and Tickets Lounge

Session VIII: 3:30PM – 5:30PM

Panel 72: Cold War (Informal) Diplomacy: Race, Culture, and Gender in U.S. Encounters with Asia (Great Falls)

Chair: Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University

Soldiers, Missionaries, and the Kids of Korea

Arissa H. Oh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Forming the East-West Center: Hawaii and Cold War Cultural Diplomacy

Mary Lui, Yale University

Journeys towards Peace: Thich Nhat Hanh, the U.S. Peace Movement, and the Construction of Political Authenticity

Judy Tzu-Chu Wu, Ohio State University

Comment: Naoko Shibusawa

Panel 73: A Healthy Nation in a Wounded World: Reconstructing Bodies and Minds in Post-World War I America (Salon 2)

Chair: Robert D. Dean, Eastern Washington University

Architecture of Injury: Disabled Veterans, the Built Environment, and the Return to ‘Normalcy’ in Post-World War I America

John M. Kinder, Oklahoma State University-Tulsa

Healing a Soldier, Restoring the Nation: Shell Shock in Post World War I

Anessa Stagner, University of California, Irvine

Strengthening American Empire: Bernarr Macfadden’s ‘New World’ of Physical Culture

Shanon Fitzpatrick, University of California, Irvine

International Relations through Sports: The Inter-Allied Games of June 1919

Kenneth Steuer, Western Michigan University

Comment: Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne

Panel 74: John Milton Cooper’s This Man’s Mind and Spirit: A Life of Woodrow Wilson (Salon 6)

Chair: Thomas Knock, Southern Methodist University

Wilson and Latin America

Mark Gilderhus, Texas Christian University

Wilson and the European War, 1914-1917

Justus Doenecke, New College of Florida

Wilson and Eastern Europe

Betty Miller Unterberger, Texas A&M University

Wilson and Self-Determination

Lloyd Ambrosius, University of Nebraska

Comment: John Milton Cooper, University of Wisconsin

Panel 75: U.S. Pacific Expansion and Empire (Salon 3)

Chair: Anna Kasten Nelson, American University

Shall America Sleep? U.S. Policy in Hawaii and the Debate over Annexation

Becky L. Bruce, University of Alabama

The Anti-Imperialist Movement and the Projection of Racial Experiences on U.S. Foreign Policy

M. Patrick Cullinane, University College Cork, National University of Ireland

Far from Home: Ebenezer Jolls Ormsbee’s Sojourns in the Samoan Islands, 1891-1893

Zackary Gardner, Georgetown University

Popular Culture and the Making of American Empire in the Pacific

Matthew Wittmann, University of Michigan

Comment: Anna Kasten Nelson

Panel 76: The Political Economy of the Cold War: National Interests and International Constraints from the Truman to the Carter Years (Salon 7)

Chair: James Matray, California State University, Chico

NATO Cooperation in Armaments Production and Market Expansion in West European Countries: Funding the ‘Supply Side’ of Civilian Investments from Bretton Woods to the End of Currency Convertibility

Simone Selva, University of Bologna

The Eisenhower Interstate System, the Cold War, and the Making of a Global Economy

Curt Cardwell, Drake University

The Revolt Against Detente in the 1970s

Seth Ackerman, Cornell University

Comment: James Matray

Panel 77: The United States and the Third World in the 1970s: The Emergence of Enduring Issues (Falls Church)

Chair: Brad Simpson, Princeton University

The Paraguayan Connection: Drug Trafficking and Human Rights Diplomacy during the Nixon Administration

Kirk Tyvela, University of Wisconsin, Washington County

Modernizing Repression: Police Training in Southeast Asia during the Nixon Years

Jeremy Kuzmarov, Bucknell University

Between Patrons and Clients: The World Bank’s Response to the North-South Debate in the 1970s

Patrick Sharma, University of California, Los Angeles

‘Only by a Perverse Logic’: Human Rights and Drug Trafficking in Mexico and Burma during the Ford Administration

Daniel Weimer, Wheeling Jesuit University

Comment: Brad Simpson

Panel 78: Republican Perspectives on FDR (Salon 1)

Chair: Mark A. Stoler, Williams College and the George C. Marshall Foundation

Side Door Diplomacy: Herbert Hoover, FDR, and Japanese-American Negotiations, 1941

J. Garry Clifford, University of Connecticut

Herbert Hoover, FDR, and European Relief, 1939-1941

Hal Wert, Kansas City Art Institute

Republicans, FDR, and the Newport Sex Scandal of 1919-1921

Sherry Zane, University of Connecticut

Comment: Irwin Gellman, Independent Scholar

Panel 79: The United States, Development, and the Emergence of Global Governance, 1940-1980 (Arlington)

Chair: Marc Frey, Jacobs University

Fighting World Hunger on a Global Scale: The Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico

Mankel Brinkmann, Europa Universität Viadrina

‘Available for Maximum Cooperation’: David Morse, ILO, and the Origins of American Development Policy

Daniel Maul, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

The Establishment of the International Food Aid Regime in the 1960s

Ruth Jachertz, Europa Universität Viadrina

Globalization Reformed? The United States, the United Nations and the Challenge of a ‘New International Economic Order,’ 1964-1976

Soenke Kunkel, Jacobs University Bremen

Comment: David C. Engerman, Brandeis University

Panel 80: Retention, Reexamination, and Relationships: Philippine Independence, 1912-1947 (Presidential Board Room, 10th Floor)

Chair: Anne Foster, Indiana State University

William H. Taft and the Retention of the Philippines, 1912 -1921

Adam Burns, University of Edinburgh

A New Nation or Not? Paul V. McNutt, Manuel L. Quezon, and the Reexamination of Philippine Independence, 1937-1939

Dean Kotlowski, Salisbury University

The State Department Boys, 1945-1947: American Diplomatic Heritage in the Philippines

Marciano R. de Borja, Philippine Embassy in Madrid, Spain

Comment: Anne Foster

Panel 81: Securing the Gulf: Changing U.S. Policies towards the Persian Gulf Region during the Cold War (Salon 8 )

Chair: David S. Painter, Georgetown University

Turning His Own Doctrine on the Head: Richard Nixon and American Relations with Iran and Saudi Arabia

Tore T. Peterson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim

Drawing the Line: The Carter Doctrine and Its Corollaries

Marc O’Reilly, Heidelberg University

“Counterinsurgency” and U.S. Policy Toward Iran during the Kennedy Administration

Roland Popp, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

Commentators: Malcolm Byrne, National Security Archive

David S. Painter

Panel 82: Humanitarian Intervention in U.S. Foreign Relations (Vienna)

Chair: David Gibbs, University of Arizona

Was Kosovo the Good War?

David Gibbs

Humanitarian Intervention and Its Discontents: Empire and Feminist Alternatives

Valentine Moghadam, Purdue University

Containing Aristide: The Purposes and Ideology of Humanitarian Intervention in Haiti

Ronald W. Cox, Florida International University

Commentators: Christopher Layne, Texas A&M University

Robert Schulzinger, University of Colorado

SOCIAL EVENT: 7:45PM – 11:00PM
Potomac River Boat Cruise aboard the Cherry Blossom