Richard H. Immerman is Professor and and Edward J. Buthusiem Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow in History at Temple University, where he also directs the Center for the Humanities and the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy. He is a recipient of Temple's Paul W. Eberman Faculty Research Award, the Regents’ Excellence in Research Award from the University of Hawaii, SHAFR’s Stuart L. Bernath Book and Lecture Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Science Research Council/MacArthur Foundation. He has served on the SHAFR Council and Diplomatic History’s Editorial Board, as well as chairing the Bernath Article Prize Committee, the Bernath Book Prize Committee, and the Program Committee for the annual meeting. Among his publications are The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention (1981); John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War (1990); Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy for National Security (1998), coauthored with Robert R. Bowie; and John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy (1999). He has also written numerous articles and book chapters, many reflecting his interest in the application of psychological theory to explaining foreign policy decision making, and he recently completed a co-authored history of the Central Intelligence Agency, scheduled for publication in 2006. His current project, tentatively entitled Empire for Liberty?, examines the contours of the American empire from 1775 to the present. In September 2007 Immerman was appointed Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analytic Integrity and Standards and Analytic Ombudsman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.