February 2017
January 2017
SHAFR Council Minutes
Friday January 6, 2017
7:30AM to 11:00AM
Limestone Room
Hyatt Regency
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
Peter L. Hahn
Peter L. Hahn has published six research monographs and a co-edited volume of essays analyzing U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East since 1940.
Eric Thomas Gettig
Eric Gettig (Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2017) is Lecturer in the History Department at Georgetown University. Based on research in Cuban, U.S., Mexican, Venezuelan, and British archives, his dissertation, "Oil and Revolution in Cuba: Development, Nationalism, and the U.S. Energy Empire, 1902-1961" reframes modern Cuban history and the history of U.S.-Cuban relations through the lens of the island's energy insecurity.
Scott Laderman
Scott Laderman is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He is the author of Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and Memory (Duke University Press, 2009) and Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing (University of California Press, 2014), and the co-editor, with Edwin Martini, of Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War (Duke University Press, 2013).
Fredrik Logevall
Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University, where he holds joint appointments in the Kennedy School of
Government and the Department of History. He is the author or editor of nine books, most recently Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Random House, 2012),
Chester Pach
Chester Pach teaches history at Ohio University, including courses on the U.S. in the 1960s and the U.S. in the 1980s. He is the winner of the Jeanette G. Grasselli Brown Teaching Award in the Humanities (2016). He is the author or editor of four books, including most recently A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower (2017). He has written extensively on U.S. TV news and the Vietnam War. He is currently completing a book on the Reagan presidency.