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
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.