February 2017

Scott Kaufman

Dr. Kaufman is a Board of Trustees Research Scholar and Chair of the Department of History at Francis Marion University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 10 books on U.S. foreign policy, the history of the presidency, and the history of the Office of First Lady. His publications include Confronting Communism: U.S. and British Policies toward China; The Pig War: The United States, Britain, and the Balance of Power in the Pacific Northwest, 1846-72; The Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr. (with Burton I.

Jonathan Reed Winkler

Jonathan Reed Winkler is associate professor and Chair of the Department of History at Wright State University. A native of Ohio, he holds degrees from Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College (AB) and Yale University (PhD). He teaches, researches and writes on U.S. foreign relations (1776 to the present), military and naval history, technology & international security; international history, and strategic thought in the modern era.

Elizabeth Cobbs

Elizabeth Cobbs holds the Melbern Glasscock Chair  at Texas A&M and is a Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. She is the author most recently of The Hamilton Affair, A Novel (2016) and The Hello Girls: America’ First Women Soldiers (2017). Her works have won the Allan Nevins Prize, Bernath Book Prize, and San Diego Book Award.

Philip Nash

Philip Nash is Associate Professor of History at Penn State University, Shenango Campus, where he has received three awards for his teaching. In 2010 he was Fulbright Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. Before coming to Pennsylvania he held a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University and taught in Nevada, Tennessee, and Ohio. He is author of The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1957-1963 (University of North Carolina Press, 1997) as well as numerous articles and book chapters.

Benjamin Greene

Benjamin Greene (Ph.D., Stanford, 2004) is the author of Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945-1963 (Stanford University Press, 2007) and numerous articles and book reviews on a topics such as nuclear testing and nuclear arms control, the politicization of science advice, foreign policy during the Eisenhower administration, and public diplomacy during the Cold War.  His current research explores the intersections of culture and foreign relations, examining how American culture and American communities in Cold War Berlin have influenced international attitu

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