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SHAFR 2010 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
THURSDAY, 24 JUNE 2010
SHAFR Council Meeting: 8:00AM – 12:45PM (Room 313)
Registration & Book Exhibit: 10:00AM – 5:00PM (Lee Lounge)
Teaching Committee Meeting: 11:00AM – 1:00PM (Room 111)
Session I: 1:00PM – 3:00PM
Panel 1: American Perceptions and Policy in the Islamic World (Room 213)
Chair: Salim Yaqub, University of California-Santa Barbara
Harems, Hoochie-Koochie Dancers and Terrible Turks: Race and Orientalism in the Public Debate over an American Mandate in Turkey
Michael Limberg, University of Colorado-Boulder
A Tool of the Russians: Race and the Eisenhower Administration’s Introduction to Gamal Abdel Nasser, 1953-1956
Rian Bobal, Texas A&M University
Islam and US: The United States Responds to Political Islam, 1960-2010
Matthew Jacobs, University of Florida
The American Right’s Response to Middle East Crises, 1979-1981
Jay Logan Rogers, University of California-Davis
Comment: Salim Yaqub
Panel 2: Roundtable: Gender and Sexuality in American Foreign Relations (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121)
Moderator: Katie Sibley, St. Joseph’s University
Sex and the City: Pamela Churchill, Wartime London, and the Making of the Special Relationship
Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut
The Lavender Scare and Empire: Rethinking Cold War Antigay Politics
Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
Haunted by Mata Hari: Espionage, Sexuality, and Gender Anxieties of the Early Cold War
Veronica Wilson, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Laura McEnaney, Whittier College
Robert Dean, Eastern Washington University
Panel 3: American Nation Building in Comparative Perspective (Room 235)
Chair: Lloyd Ambrosius, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Postwar Nation-Building: U.S. Policy in Germany and the Lessons for the Twenty-first Century
Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nation-Building for Dummies: The Lessons of the Occupation of Japan
Marc Gallicchio, Villanova University
Nation Building in South Korea in a Comparative Perspective
Gregg Brazinsky, George Washington University
Arrested Development: Community Development and Nation Building in the Republic of Vietnam during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years
Geoffrey Stewart, University of Western Ontario
Comment: Klaus Schwabe, University of Technology at Aachen, emeritus
Panel 4: Roundtable: Using Digitized Documents in Teaching: The University of Wisconsin’s Foreign Relations of the United States Series (Room 335)
Sponsored by the SHAFR Teaching Committee
Chair: Mark A. Stoler, University of Vermont
Creating, Developing and Improving the Digital FRUS at the University of Wisconsin
Vicki Tobias, University of Wisconsin Libraries
Using the Digital FRUS in Teaching the History of U.S. Foreign Relations
Brian Clancy, University of Western Ontario
Robert Morrison, University of Colorado, Boulder
Nicole Phelps, University of Vermont
Richard Hume Werking, U.S. Naval Academy
Comment: the audience and panel
Panel 5: Race and the International System during the Cold War (Room 309)
Chair: Thomas Borstelmann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Race, Labor and Security in the Panama Canal Zone: The 1946 Greaves Rape Case, Local 713, and the Isthmian Cold War Crackdown
Michael Donoghue, Marquette University
Crimes against Humanity in the Congo: Nazi Legacies and the German Cold War in Africa
Katrina Hagen, Harvard University
For a Better Guinea! Winning Hearts and Minds in Portuguese Guinea
Luís Nuno Rodrigues, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute
Comment: Daniel Byrne, University of Evansville
Panel 6: American Conservatism and the Politics of the Cold War (Room 226)
Chair: Campbell Craig, University of Southampton
Supporting the “World’s Most Self-Deluded Observers”: Understanding the Evolution of the Conservative Movement’s Early Vietnam Positions
Seth Offenbach, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Peace through Profit: The Military-Industrial Complex, Grassroots Conservatism, and the Fall of Détente
Michael Brenes, Graduate Center, City University of New York
An Unexamined Connection: The Profound Relationship between Religion, Capitalism and Anti-Communism in the Mid-Twentieth Century American Right
James McKay, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Comment: Campbell Craig
Panel 7: Challenges to Partnerships in the 1960s (Room 220)
Chair: Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University
Nature and Nurture: The Effort to Forge a U.S.-India Strategic Partnership, 1963-1965
Tanvi Madan, University of Texas at Austin
NATO’s Nuclear Fear: Confronting the New Nuclear Reality in the 1960s
Mark Rice, Ohio State University
The Dragon, the Eagle and the Rooster: The Effect of French Recognition of China on American Diplomacy
Katherine Klinefelter, University of Colorado at Boulder
Comment: Thomas A. Schwartz
Panel 8: Twisting the Lion’s Tail? Peace Factors in Anglo-American Relations, 1853-1862 (Room 205)
Chair: Robert E. May, Purdue University
The United States and the Crimean War: The International Context of a Global War
Niels Eichhorn, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
William Walker’s Filibuster: Anglo-American Relations in Nicaragua
Jon Flashnick, Arizona State University
Confederate Misery: Egyptian Cotton, Manchester Cotton Interests, and Confederate Hopes for British Recognition, 1861-1862
Shawn McAvoy, Arizona State University
Comment: Robert E. May
Panel 9: Burmese and American Interactions in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Room 217)
Chair: Robert McMahon, Ohio State University
“Indians” of the East and West: Early 19th Century Missionary Intelligence and the Civilizing Mission in Burma and America
William Womack, Samford University
The Trial for High Treason of the “Burma Surgeon,” Gordon S. Seagrave
Kenton Clymer, Northern Illinois University
Reminiscences of the 1988 Uprising in Burma and of the U.S. Policy Response
Ambassador Burton Levin, Carleton College; U.S. Ambassador to Burma, 1987-1990
Comment: Robert McMahon
BREAK: 3:00PM – 3:30PM
Refreshments served in the Lee Lounge
Session II: 3:30PM – 5:30 PM
Panel 10: Beyond “Chaps and Maps”: A Roundtable on Publishing International History (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121)
Chair: Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin
Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago, series editor, Cornell University Press
Susan Ferber, Oxford University Press
Charles Grench, University of North Carolina Press
Kathleen McDermott, Harvard University Press
Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin, series editor, Princeton University Press
Comment: the audience
Panel 11: Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance and the Vietnam War (Room 220)
Chair: David B. Cortright, University of Notre Dame
“A Symbol of the Antiwar Movement in the Service”: Drug Use and GI Resistance in Vietnam
Jeremy Kuzmarov, University of Tulsa
Vietnam and the Global GI Underground Press
Derek Seidman, Brown University
American Deserters and International Protest Movements during the Vietnam War
Paul Benedikt Glatz, Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, Graduate School of North American Studies
Comment: David B. Cortright
Panel 12: Roundtable: A Mid-Century Crusade: Religious Influences on the Foreign Policies of Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower (Room 335)
Chair: Paul Boyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
William Inboden, The Legatum Institute
Seth Jacobs, Boston College
Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge
Commentators: Wilson Miscamble, University of Notre Dame
Paul Boyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Panel 13: Africa, 1960-1980: Foreign Aid, Civil War and the Legacy of the Cold War (Room 213)
Chair: Rob Rakove, Old Dominion University
Kennedy Administration Foreign Aid Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lorella Tosone, University of Perugia
Aid, Arms, and the Biafran War: Israel, Nigeria, and the Secessionists, 1967-1970
Zach Levey, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Past is Another Country: The Rhodesian War and Memory
Sue Onslow, Kings College
Comment: Toby Glyn, Queen Mary, University of London
Panel 14: The Transnational Kissinger (Room 225)
Chair: Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University
Kissinger, the Shah, and the Kurds of Iraq, 1972-1975
Roham Alvandi, University of Oxford
Henry Kissinger and the Myth of Ceausescu the Maverick: U.S.-Romanian Relations, 1974-1976
Eliza Gheorghe, Georgetown University
Neo-Metternich Meets Transnational Civil Society: Henry Kissinger, Civil Society Networks, and the Helsinki Final Act, 1972-1977
Kai Hebel, University of Oxford
The Overdose of Anti-Americanism in Turkey: Henry Kissinger, Opium, and the Arms Embargo, 1974-1977
Barin Kayaoglu, University of Virginia
Comment: Thomas A. Schwartz
Panel 15: The Diplomacy of Immigration: Transpacific Case Studies (Room 309)
Chair: Mary Lui, Yale University
Imagining the “Great White Fleet”: Anti-Asian Immigration Restriction, the White New Zealand Policy, and the United States, 1908
David Atkinson, Boston University
Bringing “The Best Type of Chinese” to America: Refugee Migration and U.S. Cold War Outreach in East Asia
Madeline Hsu, University of Texas at Austin
Nation-Building from Home: Reconsidering the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952
Joyce Mao, Middlebury College
Comment: Mary Lui
Panel 16: The U.S. Embassy in London, 1938-2008: 70 Years in Grosvenor Square (Room 217)
Chair: Jeffrey A. Engel, Texas A&M University
Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, 1938-1940
J. Simon Rofe, University of Leicester
John Hay Whitney, 1957-1961
Tom Mills, Brunel University
Raymond George Hardenbergh Seitz, 1991-1994
Alison Holmes, Yale University
Comment: the audience
Panel 17: Building Interest and Sustaining Support: The Role of Public Opinion in U.S. Foreign Policy during the Early American Republic (Room 205)
Chair: Lelia M. Roeckell, Molloy College
The Mary Carver Affair: How and Why the United States Created an Africa Squadron (and no, it wasn’t to suppress the slave trade)
Amy VanNatter, Bronx Community College, CUNY
“You defend one class, but oppose another”: Re-evaluating the Embargo of 1807
Jordan Stancil, Paris Institute of Political Studies
Opium, Anxiety, and British Power: How American Fears of British Hegemony Led to the First Diplomatic Mission to China
Dael Norwood, Princeton University
Comment: John Belohlavek, University of South Florida
Panel 18: The Revolutionary Moment in the Middle East, 1968-1970 (Room 235)
Chair: Douglas Little, Clark University
Diverging Visions of Détente: The U.S., Israel, and the Pursuit of a Middle Eastern Settlement, 1957-1967
Avshalom Rubin, University of Chicago
Battling the Enemy on all Fronts: The Evolution of the PLO’s Revolutionary Guerilla Strategies
Paul Chamberlin, Williams College
The Libyan Revolution and U.S. Energy Security, 1969-1971
Christopher Dietrich, University of Texas-Austin
A Revolutionary Crisis? The U.S., the PLO and Lebanon, 1967-1970
James Stocker, Graduate Institute of Geneva
Comment: James Goode, Grand Valley State University
Opening Reception sponsored by the Women’s Committee, 5:45PM – 7:00PM (Alumni Lounge)
First time attendees and graduate students are especially invited to come to this informal gathering, where everyone can enjoy refreshments and time to get acquainted.
Plenary Session, 7:00 PM – 9:00PM (Rooms 325 & 326)
William Appleman Williams: The Tragedy of American Diplomacy a Half-Century Later
Chair: Marilyn Young, New York University
Triumph or Tragedy? Reassessing William A. Williams, the “Radical Left,” and American Foreign Policy
Walter Hixson, The University of Akron
Confronting a Revolutionary World: William Appleman Williams and Latin America
Greg Grandin, New York University
Commentators: Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Walter LaFeber, Cornell University
Thomas McCormick, University of Wisconsin-Madison
FRIDAY, 25 JUNE 2010
Registration & Book Exhibit: 8:00AM – 5:00PM (Lee Lounge)
Refreshments: 7:00AM – 9:00AM (Lee Lounge)
DH Editorial Board Meeting: 7:30AM – 9:00AM (Room 111)
Breakfast Session – Research Opportunities at the National Archives: 7:00AM – 8:45AM (Room 313)
Sponsored by the Diversity Committee
David Langbart, Senior Archivist, National Archives and Record Administration, will provide an overview of how to conduct research in the variety of records related to foreign relations, and devote substantial time to answering questions about research projects.
Session III: 9:00AM – 11:00AM
Panel 19: Cold War Nationalism and the Battle for the Western Hemisphere (Room 335)
Chair: James G. Hershberg, George Washington University
Balancing the Books: The Eisenhower Administration’s Response to Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba, Bolivia and Guatemala (1953-1958)
Vanni Pettinà, Spanish National Research Council
Kennedy and Cuba: Reflections from Havana on a Difficult Relationship
Carlos Alzugara Treto, University of Havana
“Who Lost Bolivia?” Military-led Development, Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress, and U.S. Efforts to Avoid a Second Cuba, 1962-1963
Thomas Field, London School of Economics and Political Science
Cuban Intervention in British Guiana: The Sugar Workers’ Strike of 1964
Robert Anthony Waters, Jr., Ohio Northern University
Comment: James G. Hershberg
Panel 20: American Jews and Foreign Affairs in the 20th Century (Room 220)
Chair: Michelle Mart, Penn State University, Berks
“Fight for Us!” American Jewish Support for Japan in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05
Mina Muraoka, Brandeis University
American Jews and the Challenges of Transnational Philanthropy: The JDC, the ARA, and American Foreign Policy in Eastern Europe, 1919-21
Sonja P. Wentling, Concordia College
New York Jews, City Politics, and Global Values: Constructing a Municipal Diplomacy in the 1950s and early 1960s
Jeffrey Taffet, United States Merchant Marine Academy
Comment: Adam Howard, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Panel 21: Roundtable: Federal Historians and the Profession: Programs and Employment Opportunities for Historians of U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Fields (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121)
Moderator: David Herschler, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Richard Stewart, Chief Historian, Army Center for Military History
Chris Tudda, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
William (Bill) Williams, Chief, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency
Michael Warner, Chief Historian, Office of the Director for National Intelligence
John Powers, Interagency Security Oversight Office (ISOO)
Panel 22: A Rise to Globalism? Domestic Roots of United States Expansion (Room 309)
Chair: Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
Inventing the Multinational Corporation: The New Deal and Postwar Capitalism
Jason Scott Smith, University of New Mexico
Translation at Home: Emotions, Memories and the Social Constitution of the “Reality” of the Cold War in the United States, 1946-1950
Masuda Hajimu, Cornell University
Authorizing the American Century: The Mass Politics of Globalism, 1941-1950
James T. Sparrow, University of Chicago
Comment: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia
Panel 23: Conscription and Conscience: Crises of American Citizenship, 1964-1980 (Room 226)
Chair: Robbie Lieberman, Southern Illinois University
God Alone is the Lord of Conscience: Conscientious Objection and American Protestants during the Vietnam War
George A. Bogaski, University of Oklahoma
“I knew I wanted those classes”: Americans in Canadian Universities in the Vietnam War Era
Donald W. Maxwell, Indiana University
Jimmy Carter and the Reinstatement of Draft Registration
Jason Friedman, Michigan State University
Comment: Robbie Lieberman
Panel 24: Transnational Currents in International Waters: Workers, the United States’ Land Borders and Governmental Control of Transborder Migration Patterns, 1920s-1940s (Room 225)
Chair: Richard Wiggers, Royal Military College, Toronto
The Alien Commuter Controversy along the U.S.-Canada Border during the 1920s
Thomas A. Klug, Marygrove College
The Lumberjack Wars: Temporary Workers and the Wartime Canadian-American Border
Angelika Sauer, Texas Lutheran University
El Paso/The Passage: The El Paso Incident and the Politics of Mobility at the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1948
Cristina Salinas, University of Texas-Austin
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Tracing the Vanishing WWII Migrant Contract Worker Programs
Luis F.B. Plascencia, Arizona State University
Comment: Richard Wiggers
Panel 25: Origins of the Non-proliferation Regime in the Cold War (Room 205)
Chair: Sarah-Jane Corke, Dalhousie University
Paving the Way for Arms Control: Eisenhower and the Test-Ban Treaty
Benjamin Greene, United States Naval Academy
The Caution of History: John F. Kennedy, the Test Ban, and the International Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime
Brandon Gauthier, Fordham University
The Design of a Non-Proliferation Treaty: 1966-1968
Dane Swango, University of California Los Angeles
Comment: Richard Filipink, Western Illinois University
Panel 26: The Hidden Hand: Race and the State in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations (Room 213)
Chair: Thomas Borstelmann, University of Nebraska
Alain Locke and Post World War I American Imperial Relations
Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania
Blinded by the White: India and the NAACP’s Alliance to End Racial Oppression in South Africa, 1946-1951
Carol Anderson, Emory University
Color, Colorblindness, and the Dominican Crisis of 1965
Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Comment: Thomas Borstelmann
Panel 27: The Politics of Human Rights: Advocates, Opponents and Skeptics, 1967-1980 (Room 235)
Chair: Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University
Anti-Torture Politics: Amnesty International, the Greek Junta, and the Origins of the Human Rights Boom in the United States
Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne
A Dangerous Place? Opposition to Human Rights in the UN
Roland Burke, La Trobe University
Opponents Within: Contested Visions of Human Rights at the U.S. State Department
Vanessa Walker, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Comment: Steve J. Stern, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Luncheon: 11:00AM – 1:00PM
(Alumni Lounge – Pre-registration required)
Empires of the Senses: How Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Touching and Tasting Shaped Imperial Encounters
Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University, SHAFR President
Session IV: 1:00PM – 3:00PM
Panel 28: Economic Diplomacy in the Age of New Imperialism: Rethinking Late Nineteenth Century Anglo-American Relations (Room 220)
Chair: Edward P. Crapol, College of William and Mary
Imperialism, Federation, and Unity: The Global Impact of the 1890 McKinley Tariff Upon the British Empire, 1890-1894
Marc-William Palen, University of Texas at Austin
The Pan-American Lobbyist and Anglo-Saxon Empire, 1884-93
Benjamin Coates, Columbia University
The Other Cross of Gold: The United States, Britain, and the Diplomacy of Development, 1888-1893
John Taylor Vurpillat, University of Texas at Austin
Comment: Edward P. Crapol
Panel 29: Roundtable: Expanding Diplo-Universe and the “Born Digital” Revolution: Fundamental Issues of Scope and Documentation Facing International Historians (Room 235)
William McAllister, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University
Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne
Panel 30: Roundtable: The Vietnam War through East European Eyes: New Evidence from former Communist Archives (Room 335)
Chair: Malcolm Byrne, National Security Archive
Warsaw, Hanoi, and the International Control Commission
Margaret K. Gnionska, George Washington University
“Without a doubt, the situation has been radicalized!” Poland, the International Control Commission and the December 1966 Hanoi Bombing Controversy
James G. Hershberg, George Washington University
“Over the Hills and Far Away”: Romania’s Attempts to Mediate the Start of U.S.-DRV Negotiations, 1967-1968
Mircea Munteanu, George Washington University/Cold War International History Project
East Germany and the Vietnam War
Bernd Schaefer, Cold War International History Project
Comment: David Anderson, California State University, Monterey Bay
Panel 31: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy toward Japan, 1952-1968 (Room 213)
Chair: Kenneth A. Osgood, Florida Atlantic University
Controlling Japan: U.S. Alliance Diplomacy, 1952-54
Tomoki Kuniyoshi, Waseda University
William Faulkner’s 1955 Visit to Japan: A Case of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy
Fumiko Fujita, Tsuda College
Reischauer Offensive: Scholar-Ambassador’s Challenge to Japanese Leftist Historians, 1961-66
Midori Yoshii, Albion College
U. Alexis Johnson and the Return to “Quiet Diplomacy”, 1966-68
Fintan Hoey, Queen’s University, Belfast and University College, Dublin
Comment: Emily Rosenberg, University of California at Irvine
Panel 32: Foreign Affairs: Toward a History of Outsider Diplomacy in 20th Century America (Room 226)
Chair: Adam Howard, Department of State & George Washington University
Raising Pan Americans: Mexican and American Women of the Mesas Redondas Panamericanas de México/The Pan American Round Table
Dina Berger, Loyola University Chicago
“Helping Others to Help Ourselves”: The American Federation of Labor and the Jewish Labor Committee’s Accidental Boycott for Unity
Rachel Feinmark, University of Chicago
Desegregating Military Life: The Wives and Families of Servicemen in Germany after World War II
Emily Swafford, University of Chicago
Ian Fleming and Allen Dulles: Fictions, Facts, and Empires
Jonathan Nashel, Indiana University, South Bend
Comment: Adam Howard
Panel 33: Transborder Resources and Environmental Policy (Room 205)
Chair: Michelle Mart, Penn State University, Berks
Oilmen and Cactus Rustlers: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Building of a Regional Empire, 1890-1930
Jessica Kim, University of Southern California
Crossing into Zona Prohibida: Transborder History of Americans in Baja California, Mexico
Sara Fingal, Brown University
Creating the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: American-Canadian Environmental Diplomacy, 1949-1954
Daniel MacFarlane, University of Ottawa
Comment: Michelle Mart
Panel 34: The United States and the “Periphery”: American Cold War Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Middle East (Room 309)
Chair: Thomas Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder
Winter in Tehran, Springtime Abroad: American Foreign Policy, Iranian Student Dissent, and the Global Sixties, 1967-1969
Matthew Shannon, Temple University
“Go Line Them Up.” Constructing Empire: The United States in Latin America, 1945-1955
Matthew Jacobs, Ohio University
The Migration of Knowledge: European Orientalists and Developing Perceptions of Islam in the United States during the Cold War
Robert Morrison, University of Colorado at Boulder
Comment: Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University
Panel 35: Post-Colonial States and Nation Building (Room 225)
Chair: Dirk Bönker, Duke University
“Sovereignty in the service of empire”: Promoting the Independent Republic of Liberia, 1846-1853
Brandon Mills, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Military Suburbanization: Exploring U.S. Cold War Imperialism in the Marshall Islands
Lauren Hirshberg, University of Michigan
“Africa’s Czechoslovakia”?: Angola, 1975-76
Candace Sobers, University of Toronto
The U.S. and Namibian Independence
Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Comment: Dirk Bönker
Panel 36: Nonstate Actors and U.S.-Korean Relations (Room 217)
Chair: Stephen Mak, Northwestern University
File—Do Not Respond!: The 1919 Korean Independence Movement
Hannah Kim, University of Delaware-Newark
A War of Inclusion and Exclusion
Christine Knauer, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Underdevelopment of American Studies in South Korea
Jooyoung Lee, Brown University
Comment: Stephen Mak
Panel 37: Migration Histories and U.S. Foreign Policy (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121)
Chair: Donna Gabaccia, University of Minnesota
Gentlemen’s Agreements: Class, Migration and Empire in Trans-Pacific History
Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University
A Place to Stand: Arab Americans and U.S. Foreign Relations in the 1970s
Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara
U.S. Asylum Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: Balancing Humanitarian Obligations and Security Concerns
Maria Cristina Garcia, Cornell University
Comment: Donna Gabaccia
BREAK: 3:00PM – 3:30PM
Refreshments in the Lee Lounge
Session V: 3:30PM – 5:30PM
Panel 38: The United States and its Foreign Terrains of Empire in the Gilded Age, 1865-1910 (Room 205)
Chair: Joseph A. Fry, University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Resurrecting Reconstruction: Republican Policymakers, the Legacy of the Postbellum South, and Liberal Modernization in the Early U.S. Occupied Philippines
Gary H. Darden, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Expansionism, Imperialism, and Colonialism: Debating Empire after the Civil War, 1865-1877
Andrew Priest, Aberystwyth University
The Demands of the Nineteenth Century: White Southerners Construct Home Rule at Home and Abroad
Eric Weber, Duke University
Comment: Joseph A. Fry
Panel 39: Roundtable: Teaching the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: 2008 SHAFR Institute Participants Reflect on their Classroom Experiences (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121)
Chair: Peter Hahn, Ohio State University
Jungle and Desert: Comparing the Vietnam and Iraq Wars in the Classroom
Fabian Hilfrich, University of Edinburgh
Challenges of Teaching Afghanistan and Iraq in the Broader Context of U.S.-Middle East Relations
Matthew Jacobs, University of Florida
Sourcing and Teaching the “Slam Dunk” Episode
Christopher Jespersen, North Georgia College and State University
Remind Me Why I Thought This Would Be a Good Idea? Creating the Course Syllabus
Molly Wood, Wittenberg University
Comment: the audience
Panel 40: The United States and Britain in the Indian Ocean: Regional Security and Global Strategy in the Cold War (Room 220)
Chair: Michael A. Palmer, East Carolina University
The United States, Great Britain and Regional Challenges to the British Indian Ocean Territory, 1965-1980
W. Taylor Fain, University of North Carolina-Wilmington
“No Scope for Arms Control”: Strategic Vision and Naval Limitations in the Indian Ocean, ca. 1970-1975
Peter John Brobst, Ohio University
Sir Philip Mitchell and the Indian Ocean, 1946-1949
James R. Brennan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Comment: Michael A. Palmer
Panel 41: The U.S. Congress and the Early Cold War (Room 309)
Chair: Andrew Johns, Brigham Young University
“Whose Prerogative?” The Conflict between the Conservative Right in the Senate and the Executive over the Constitutional Power in U.S. Foreign Policy Making, 1950-54
James Blackstone, University of Cambridge
Mission Impossible: The “Voice of America”, Congress, the Truman Administration, and the Battle over the Smith-Mundt Act, 1946-1948
Terry Hamblin, SUNY Delhi
Isolationists, Internationalists and U.S. Policy toward Egypt, 1952-1956
Guy Laron, Northwestern University
Comment: Chester Pach, Ohio University
Panel 42: Roundtable: Empire in America: Expanding and Crossing Borders (Room 235)
Moderator: Walter LaFeber, Cornell University
Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mariola Espinosa, Yale University
Alfred W. McCoy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Anne L. Foster, Indiana State University
Comment: the audience
Panel 43: Triangular Cooperative Disagreement: Cuba-Canada-United States Relations, 1959-1966 (Room 225)
Chair: Robert Anthony Waters, Jr., Ohio Northern University
Canada, the United States and Cuba: The Triangular Relationship through Cuban Diplomatic History, 1959-1962
Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez, University of Havana
“Quite Relaxed”: Canada and U.S. Policy toward Cuba, 1959-1962
Asa McKercher, Library and Archives Canada
Moving From Friction to Cooperation: Canadian-American Relations and Revolutionary Cuba 1959-1966
John M. Dirks, University of Toronto
Comment: John Prados, National Security Archive
Panel 44: Before and After: Comparing the Pre-Presidential and Presidential Rhetoric of FDR, LBJ, and RMN (Room 226)
Chair: Martin Medhurst, Baylor University
FDR’s Rhetorical Narrative of National Insecurity
Ira Chernus, University of Colorado-Boulder
Exchanging Rhetoric for Reality: Lyndon Johnson’s Shifting Foreign Policy Ideology
Nicole Anslover, Indiana University-Northwest
Richard Nixon’s Pre-presidential Rhetoric of Anti-communism
Marta Rzepecka, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
Comment: Martin Medhurst
Panel 45: Exporting Liberty and Securing Slavery in American Foreign Relations, 1815-1873 (Room 217)
Chair: Daniel Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College
Slave Trade versus Slave Empire: Henry Wise’s Ministry to Brazil, 1844-1847
Matthew Karp, University of Pennsylvania
General Jackson’s Passports: Travel Rights, Gun Rights and the Safety of the (Slaveowning) People
Jason M. Opal, McGill University
“To Strike a Blow at Slavery Wherever it May Exist”: Frederick Douglass, Santo Domingo and the Foreign Policy of Anti-Slavery, 1870-1873
Christopher Wilkins, Stanford University
Comment: Daniel Margolies
Panel 46: Rethinking Colonialism and the Cold War: Perspectives from Moscow, Manchester and Geneva (Room 335)
Chair: Carol Anderson, Emory University
American Anticolonialism in Interwar Moscow: Rethinking Race, Migration and the Global Cold War
Ani Mukherji, Brown University
Manchester, 1945: An East-West, North-South Crossroads
John Munro, Simon Fraser University
The Geneva Conference of 1954 and U.S.-China Relations
Tao Wang, Georgetown University
Comment: Rachel Buff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Panel 47: Roundtable: Shock of the Global? Rethinking the International History of the 1970s (Room 213)
Moderator: Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
Erez Manela, Harvard University
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, University of Kentucky
Vernie Oliveiro, Harvard University
Daniel Sargent, University of California, Berkeley
SATURDAY, 26 JUNE 2010
Registration & Book Exhibit: 8:00AM – 5:00PM (Lee Lounge)
Membership Committee Meeting: 7:30AM – 9:00AM (Room 320)
Refreshments: 8:00AM – 9:00AM (Lee Lounge)
Session VI: 9:00AM – 11:00AM
Panel 48: So a Kangaroo, a Shark and a Zookeeper Go Into an Embassy . . . : Animals and American Foreign Relations (Room 220)
Chair: Janet M. Davis, University of Texas at Austin
The Cold War and the Militarization of American Zoo Keeping
John M. Kinder, Oklahoma State University
Pacific Pets: Animal Exchange and Imagery in American-Australian Relations, 1908
Robert Chase, University of California, Irvine
A Menacing Menagerie: The Dehumanization and Destruction of U.S.-Cuban Relations, 1959-1965
Blair Woodard, University of New Mexico
Comment: Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu, Michigan State University
Panel 49: Military Culture and U.S. Foreign Relations in the 20th Century (Room 225)
Chair: Michael Sherry, Northwestern University
Global Militarization and U.S. Pursuits of Force: Rethinking American Navalism in the Progressive Era
Dirk Bönker, Duke University
Building America’s “9-1-1- Force”: The Cultural Origins of Marine Corps’ Amphibious Force in Readiness
Aaron B. O’Connell, U.S. Naval Academy
Imagining NATO in the 1950s
Carolyn V. Davidson, Yale University
Comment: Michael Sherry
Panel 50: Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective (Room 309)
Chair: Phil E. Muehlenbeck, George Washington University
The Western Allies, German Churches, and the Emerging Cold War in Germany, 1945-1952
JonDavid K. Wyneken, Grove City College
Rising to the Occasion: The Role of American Missionaries and Korean Pastors in Resisting Communism and Preserving the Korean Church throughout the Korean War
Kai Yin Allison Haga, National Sun Yat-Sen University
Religion, Power, and Legitimacy in Ngo Dinh Diem’s Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1963
Jessica Chapman, Williams College
Comment: David Zietsma, Redeemer University College
Panel 51: Roundtable: Finding Common Ground: Asian American Studies and U.S. Foreign Relations Research (Room 213)
Moderator: Gregg Brazinsky, George Washington University
Internationalism and Antiracism in the Japanese Immigration Crisis
Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California
Dong Kingman: The Chinese American Artist as Cold War Goodwill Ambassador
Mary Lui, Yale University
The Heartland in Saigon and the Saigon In…Detroit: The Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group Project as Recovered Asian American History, 1954-1960
Victor Jew, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Constructing Internationalism: Vietnamese Agency, Print Media and the Antiwar Movement
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, The Ohio State University
Panel 52: Roundtable: Educational Exchange and the Writing of International History (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121)
Chair: Whitney Walton, Purdue University
Richard Garlitz, University of Tennessee at Martin
Liping Bu, Alma College
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, San Diego State University
Lisa Jarvinen, LaSalle University
Hongshan Li, Kent State University at Tuscarawas
Shuji Otsuka, Northwestern University
Comment: the audience
Panel 53: Partnerships, Political Warfare and Dissent: The Trials of U.S.-Italian Relations during the Cold War (Room 217)
Chair: Steven F. White, Mount St. Mary’s College
Confronting Communism through “Means Short of War”: The United States, Italy & Political Warfare in the Early Cold War
Kaeten Mistry, University of Warwick
The United States and the De Gasperi Enigma
Mario Del Pero, University of Bologna
Taming Dissent: The United States, Anti-Americanism, and the Italian Center-Left Governments, 1958-1978
Alessandro Brogi, University of Arkansas
Comment: Leopoldo Nuti, University of Rome III
Panel 54: Black Internationalism and Cold War Dissent (Room 226)
Chair: Gerald Horne, University of Houston
The Old Left and Transnational Solidarity Politics in the 1960s and 1970s
Dayo F. Gore, University of Massachusetts
Mississippi Mau Mau: Medgar Evers and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1952-1963
Kristin R. Henze, University of Missouri
“Uptight in Babylon”: Eldridge Cleaver’s Cold War
Sean L. Malloy, University of California, Merced
Comment: Gerald Horne
Panel 55: Crossing Trans-Atlantic Boundaries in the Early American Period, 1787-1800 (Room 205)
Chair: Chris Tudda, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Publius’s Guile and the Paranoid Style
Joseph Parent, University of Miami
Virginia’s Trans-Atlantic Economic Priorities in the Ratification of the Constitution, 1788
Stephanie Hurter Williams, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
The XYZ Affair, Public Opinion, and the Early American Presidency
Christopher Young, Indiana University Northwest
Comment: Chris Tudda
Panel 56: Modernization, Environment and Poverty: U.S. Solutions during the Cold War (Room 235)
Chair: Nick Cullather, Indiana University at Bloomington
“Soon it All Became Commonplace”: Discovering “Global Poverty” in Nehru’s India
Sheyda Jahanbani, University of Kansas
Mixing Diplomatic and Environmental History: The U.S., DDT, and Nepal, 1952-1972
Thomas Robertson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Listening to Alternative Voices from America’s First War on Drugs: Integrating Oral Histories with Archival Documents in the Study of Turkey’s 1970s Eradication of the Opium Poppy
Kyle Evered, Michigan State University
Comment: Nick Cullather
Luncheon: 11:00AM – 1:00PM
(Alumni Lounge – Pre-registration required)
Foreign Relations: Immigration History as International History
Donna R. Gabaccia, Director, Immigration History Research Center, Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair of Immigration History Research and Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities (2009-2010), University of Minnesota
Session VII: 1:00PM – 3:00PM
Panel 57: School of Hard Knocks: Cultural Studies of U.S. Relations with Cuba (Room 205)
Chair: Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University
Between Admiration and Indignation: The Career of Kid Chocolate and Cuban Perceptions of the United States, 1928-1933
Enver M. Casimir, University of North Carolina
“An ounce of education is worth more than a pound of gun powder”: The American Central School and Cuba’s Isle of Pines
Michael E. Neagle, University of Connecticut
The Lingering Problem of Tío Sam: Castroist Perspectives on the History of U.S. Interventions in Cuba
Jared Ross Hardesty, Boston College
Comment: Michael Donoghue, Marquette University
Panel 58: New Perspectives on U.S.-Iraq Relations under Saddam (Room 213)
Chair: Jessica Huckabey, Conflict Records Research Center
“This Stab in the Back”: Saddam Hussein, Irangate and the United States
Hal Brands, Institute for Defense Analyses
Understanding Saddam’s Non-Use of WMD in the Gulf War
David Palkki, University of California at Los Angeles and Institute for Defense Analyses
Saddam’s Perceptions and Misperceptions: The Case of Desert Storm
Kevin Woods, Institute for Defense Analyses
Comment: Thomas Mahnken, U.S. Naval War College and Johns Hopkins University
Panel 59: The Two Germanys in Transatlantic Relations, 1975-1990 (Room 225)
Chair: Bernd Schaefer, Cold War International History Project
From Wende to Wende: Helmut Kohl, Deutschlandpolitik, and Transatlantic Relations in the 1980s
Ronald J. Granieri, University of Pennsylvania
The Carter-Schmidt Split: Explaining the Deterioration of Relations between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany during the Carter Administration
Tony Crain, Ohio State University
Basket III as “Human-Rights-Demagoguery Hostile to Détente”: The German Democratic Republic and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), 1975-1989
Douglas Selvage, Office of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records, Berlin
Comment: William Gray, Purdue University
Panel 60: Transpacific Contact Zones: New Perspectives on Asia and America during the Second World War and the Cold War (Room 235)
Chair: Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California
Imagining Hawai‘i in Japan during WWII
Yujin Yaguchi, University of Tokyo
Negotiating Hollywood, Inventing America: Movie Consumption as a Transnational Practice in Post-World War II Japan, 1945-1960
Hiroshi Kitamura, The College of William and Mary
Paradise Found: Indonesia in the Surfing Imagination
Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Comment: Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University
Panel 61: Dissent against the Vietnam War (Room 226)
Chair: Hannah Gurman, New York University
Radical Revision vs. Escalation: George Ball’s Vietnam Dissent
Hannah Gurman, New York University
“Hating the Eel, but Loving the Soup”: Discourse on the Vietnam War and American Influence in Thailand
Sudina Paungpetch, Texas A&M University
“Abolish the Peace Corps”: The Vietnam War and the Committee of Returned Volunteers in the Development Decade
Molly Geidel, Boston University
Comment: Jessica Chapman, Williams College
Panel 62: Diplomacy without Diplomats: Non-state Actors and U.S.-Philippine Relations during the 20th Century (Room 217)
Chair: Mark Bradley, University of Chicago
“We Have a Responsibility Here. . . Unequaled Anywhere”: The American Colonial State and Private Reform in the Philippines, 1898-1946
Stefanie Bator, Northwestern University
“The World Brotherhood of Freedom-Loving Nations”: Constructing a Cold War Democracy in the Philippines
Colleen Woods, University of Michigan
The “Broads from Abroad”: American Actresses Star in the Postcolonial Philippines
Michael Hawkins, University of California, Riverside
Comment: Anne L. Foster, Indiana State University
Panel 63: U.S. Alliances in the Cold War: Diverging Perspectives on the Relationships with Germany and Korea (Room 326)
Chair: James I. Matray, California State University, Chico
Power and Culture in the U.S. Relationship with South Korea, 1945-1966
William Stueck, University of Georgia
U.S. Nation Building, Power and Culture in Postwar Germany
Holger Lowendorf, Temple University
Commentators: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut
Robert McMahon, Ohio State University
Panel 64: American Society and Transborder Migratory Metis Peoples: The Politics of National Boundary Marking and the Politics of State Citizenship (Room 309)
Chair: Galen Perras, University of Ottawa
Crossing Boundaries, Making Boundaries: The Plains Métis and North American Border-Making
Michel Hogue, Carleton University
Life on the Border: The Metis and Race, Citizenship, and Authenticity in the Twentieth Century
Brenda Macdougall, University of Ottawa
19th Century French Catholic Fur trade Families in the Great Lakes Region – Adaptive Strategies to Life in the USA
Nicole St-Onge, University of Ottawa
Comment: Galen Perras
Panel 65: Unofficial Diplomacy: Private Citizens and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Cold War (Room 220)
Chair: Daniel Margolies, West Virginia Wesleyan College
Francis Pickens Miller and the Christian Origins of the American Century
Mark Edwards, Ouachita Baptist University
Traversing Cold War Borders: Staughton Lynd’s Unofficial Peace Mission to Hanoi, 1965-1966
Carl Mirra, Adelphi University
Charles Howard and the Crusade for Civil Rights and Decolonization in the Context of the Cold War
Curt Cardwell, Drake University
Comment: Daniel Margolies
Panel 66: All Together Now? America and its Allies in Postwar Occupations (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121)
Chair: Mario Del Pero, University of Bologna
Going it Alone: American Planning for the Occupation of Japan
Dayna Barnes, London School of Economics
Occupation Endgame: The United States, the United Nations and the Korean Occupation, 1947-1948
Robert Barnes, London School of Economics
Raising the Stakes: The American Occupation of Berlin, 1945-47
Emma Peplow, London School of Economics
Comment: Mario Del Pero
BREAK: 3:00PM – 3:30PM
Refreshments provided in Lee Lounge
Session VIII: 3:30PM – 5:30PM
Panel 67: Small Scale Imperialism?: Frontier Localities and American Foreign Relations, 1743-1860 (Room 220)
Chair: Jason Colby, University of Victoria
American Neutrality and the Problem of Slavery in the 1790s
Wendy Helen Wong, Temple University
A School as Foreign Policy?: The Case of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1743-1755
Matt Schumann, Eastern Michigan University
Showdown at the Oriental Hotel, and Other Such Tales of Barroom Violence from Abroad
Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University
Comment: Jason Colby
Panel 68: Kennedy’s Headaches (Room 326)
Chair: Michael Allen, Northwestern University
Not Waving but Drowning: The United States’ Support for the Ngô Family
Evelyn Krache Morris, Georgetown University
One More Step: Kennedy, Chemical Defoliants, and U.S. Intervention in Vietnam
Richard M. Filipink, Jr., Western Illinois University
Latin Americanizing the Alliance for Progress: The Making of the Alliance for Progress from an Inter-American Perspective
Cristóbal Zúñiga Espinoza, State University of New York, Stony Brook
American Missile Defense and the NATO Alliance: The Kennedy Administration and the Roots of Division
Joseph W. Constance, Saint Anselm College
Comment: Michael Allen
Panel 69: Boundary Crossing Essentials: Food Provisioning and U.S. Foreign Relations (Room 225)
Chair: Nick Cullather, Indiana University
Meat in the Middle: Exploring the Transborder Relations of the Nineteenth-century Midwest
Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Fruits of Benevolence: World War I Food Aid & International Power
Helen Zoe Veit, Michigan State University
What Global Capitalism Leaves to the Nation: Coca-Cola, the United States, and Latin America
Julio Moreno, University of San Francisco
Comment: Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Minnesota
Panel 70: Perplexing Masquerade: The Many Faces of 20th Century Humanitarian Relief (Room 235)
Chair: Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University
Progressive Financial Missionaries?: The Shoup Missions to Cuba, 1931-32 and 1938-39
Michael Adamson, California State University, Sacramento
CARE-ing for the Enemy: U.S. Food Policy in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949
Andrea O’Brien, George Washington University
Frontiers of Need: Humanitarianism, Imperialism and the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970
Brian McNeil, University of Texas-Austin
The Gentle War: Famine Relief, Politics, and Privatization in Ethiopia, 1983-1986
Alexander Poster, Yale University
Comment: Kristin Ahlberg, Department of State
Panel 71: Learning from Others: American Military History in a Transnational Context, 1941-1965 (Room 205)
Chair: Christopher DeRosa, Monmouth University
“We Don’t Know Anything about Espionage Schools”: How the United States Inherited Britain’s Tradition of Irregular Warfare
Aaron R. Linderman, Texas A&M University
“We must all maintain an optimistic viewpoint”: MAAG’s Opinion of France’s Performance in the Indochina War
Nathaniel R. Weber, Texas A&M University
The Origins of U.S. Security Policy in South Asia: A Case Study of Military Aid to Pakistan
Mark Beall, Independent Scholar
Comment: Christopher DeRosa
Panel 72: Kennedy Administration Policies toward the Third World: A Reassessment (Room 309)
Chair: Marc Selverstone, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
Multilateralism and Regional Organizations in the Era of Nation-Building: Reappraising the Kennedy Years
Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin
“A Slight but Salutary Case of the Jitters”: Bureaucratic Politics and the Alliance for Progress in Paraguay
Kirk Tyvela, University of Wisconsin, Washington County
Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders
Phil E. Muehlenbeck, George Washington University
Tough Love on the Periphery: The Kennedy Administration, Afghanistan, and the Pashtunistan Question
Robert B. Rakove, Old Dominion University
Comment: Luís Nuno Rodrigues, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute
Panel 73: Cultures of Opposition: The American Left and U.S. Foreign Relations (Room 213)
Chair: Thomas McCormick, University of Wisconsin at Madison
U.S. and European Left Opposition to the Labor Provisions of the Versailles Treaty
Elizabeth McKillen, University of Maine
Critiquing the Cold War: Sidney Roger, Radio News, and a Culture of Opposition
Nathan Godfried, University of Maine
William Appleman Williams vs Reinhold Niebuhr: U.S. Foreign Policy and Two Theologies
Paul Buhle, Brown University
Comment: Jeffrey A. Engel, Texas A&M University
Panel 74: Cultural Brokers in U.S. Foreign Relations (Room 226)
Chair: Susan A. Brewer, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Cultural Brokers in Transatlantic Economic Relations: The Example of Arnold, Fortas & Porter
Petra Dolata-Kreutzkamp, King’s College London
Vietnam War Photographers: Chroniclers, Propagandists, or Cultural Brokers?
Peter Busch, King’s College London
“Send more people like the Martins…”: Winning the Cold War in Southeast Asia with “The Ugly American”
Andreas Etges, Freie Universität Berlin
Comment: Kenneth A. Osgood, Florida Atlantic University
Panel 75: George Herring’s From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776: A Discussion of the Master Narrative of the United States and the World (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121)
Chair: Marilyn Young, New York University
From Colony to the Global Stage
Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley
From the 1890s to 1945
Emily Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine
The Early Cold War
Richard Immerman, Temple University
The Vietnam War Era
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, University of Kentucky
After Vietnam
Kyle Longley, Arizona State University
Comment: George Herring, University of Kentucky
SOCIAL EVENT: 6:00PM – 8:00 PM
Reception, Wisconsin Veterans Museum, Capitol Square (wear your name badge)
Sponsored by the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, University of Wisconsin-Madison