David L. Anderson is Dean of the College of Undergraduate Programs at California State University Monterey Bay.

Professor Anderson taught history at the University of Indianapolis from 1981 to 2004. He has served SHAFR as a member of the council (1995-1997) and of the editorial board of Diplomatic History (1990-1992), as editor of the Roster and Research List (1986-1999), and as chair of the program committee (1991-1992) and the Graebner prize committee (2003-2004). He is on the editorial board of the Vietnam Documentation Project of the National Security Archive and is general editor of the book series, "Vietnam: America in the War Years," published by Rowman & Littlefield.

His books include Imperialism and Idealism: American Diplomats in China (Indiana, 1985), Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam (Columbia, 1991), Shadow on the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War (Kansas, 1993), Facing My Lai: Moving Beyond the Massacre (Kansas, 1998), The Human Tradition in the Vietnam Era (Scholarly Resources, 2000), The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War (Columbia, 2002), The Human Tradition in America since 1945 (Scholarly Resources, 2003), and The Vietnam War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Trapped by Success received the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from SHAFR. The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War earned a "Best of the Best" designation from the American Library Association and the American Association of University Presses and an "Outstanding Academic Title" listing from Choice magazine. The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education in Washington, D.C., named him the 1991 Indiana Professor of the Year. His current project is the Columbia History of the Vietnam War.

In 1994 he was Visiting Professor of History at Anhui Normal University in the People's Republic of China. In his thirty-year career in higher education, he has also taught at the University of Montana, Texas Tech University, Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas), and California Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo). He has a BA degree from Rice University and MA and PhD degrees from the University of Virginia.

You can email him at: David_Anderson@csumb.edu