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THURSDAY, 20 JUNE 2013
SHAFR Council Meeting: 8:00 AM – 12:45 PM, Studio A
SHAFR Teaching Committee Meeting: 8:00 – 10:00 AM, Boardroom
Registration: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Second Floor Reception Area
Book Exhibit: 12:00 – 5:00 PM, Second Floor Reception Area
Special Session on Conducting Research at NARA: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Studio B
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 I: 1:00-3:00 PM (Panels 1-10)
Panel 1: Expanding the Field in the Classroom: A Practical Guide to Teaching New Topics in the History of American Foreign Relations
Citizen Protection Cases: Where Everyday People Meet the State
Nicole M. Phelps, University of Vermont
Crude Lessons: Integrating Oil into the History of U.S. Foreign Relations
David S. Painter, Georgetown University
Law and Hidden Histories of 19th Century American Foreign Relations
Benjamin Coates, Wake Forest University
Explaining the Concept of Transnational History to Students
Brooke L. Blower, Boston University
Comment: the audience
Panel 2: Sport and Foreign Relations in a Global Age
Chair: Andrew Johns, Brigham Young University
“Kenya’s Foreign Legion”: Running for the NCAA in the Wake of Independence
Jessica M. Chapman, Williams College
Supporting Detroit: The State Department’s Role in the NATO Working Group on the 1968 Olympic Games
Heather L. Dichter, Ithaca College
Surfing as Cultural Diplomacy
Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota Duluth
Comment: Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu, Michigan State University
Panel 3: Congress and Foreign Policy: The Cold War and Beyond
Chair: Chris Tudda, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
The Fodor-Fulbright Correspondence, Congress, and Public Diplomacy
Fabienne Gouverneur, Andrássy University Budapest
Fulbright’s Middle East: Ideology and Congressional Influence on Foreign Policy
James Stocker, Trinity Washington University
Reagan vs. Congress: The Fight to Sell AWACS to Saudi Arabia
Christopher Maynard, University of North Alabama
The U.S. Congress and the UN Sanctions on Iraq, 1990-2003
Joy Gordon, Fairfield University
Comment: Chris Tudda
Panel 4: The United States and Israel: Diplomacy and Strategy, 1948-1968
Chair: Peter Hahn, Ohio State University
The Struggle Over the Status Quo: The United States, Israel and the Issue of Jerusalem, 1948-1967
Gadi Heimann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The United States, Israel, and the Crisis over Gaza, 1956-1957
Asaf Siniver, University of Birmingham
The United States, Israel and Nuclear Desalination, 1964-1968
Zach Levey, University of Haifa
Comment: Paul Chamberlin, University of Kentucky
Panel 5: If Kennedy Had Lived: U.S.-Latin American Relations in the 1960s
Chair: Jeffrey Taffet, United States Merchant Marine Academy
If Kennedy Had Lived: Contingency Planning for Brazil and Chile in the Kennedy Administration
Andrew J. Kirkendall, Texas A&M University
Kennedy, Johnson, and the Cold War Calculus of Mexico’s Relations with Cuba
Renata Keller, Boston University
Democratic Hard-Liners and Hard-Line Democrats: The Kennedy-Johnson Transition and the Venezuelan Call for a Tougher Stand Against Latin American Communism, 1963-1964
Aragorn Storm Miller, Cornell University
“The historian must talk of two Alliances for Progress”: Kennedy, Johnson, and Latin American Policy, 1961-1968
Thomas Tunstall Allcock, University of Nottingham
Comment: Jeffrey Taffet
Panel 6: The American-Vietnam War in Media, Museums, and Memory
Chair: Mark Bradley, University of Chicago
The Gendered World of Charlie Company: How Soldiers Who Killed Could Also Wear Peace Signs in the American/Vietnam War
Martin Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Transnational Reconciliation at Khe Sanh/Tà Cơn Museum and Air Base
Christina Schwenkel, University of California, Riverside
Agent Orange Remembered (Or Not) in Vietnam and the U.S.
Leslie J. Reagan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Comment: Christian G. Appy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Panel 7: New Perspectives on Development in the Third World and the Cold War in the ‘long’ 1950s
Chair: Robert McMahon, Ohio State University
Khrushchev, the Cold War and Soviet Central Asia
Artemy M. Kalinovsky, University of Amsterdam
Adapting to the New World: Mexico’s Modernization Project at the Outset of the Cold War, 1947-1952
Vanni Pettinà, Colegio de Mexico
The Eisenhower Administration, Destalinization, and Khrushchev’s Economic Offensive in the Third World, 1955-56
Wes Ullrich, London School of Economics and Political Science
Comment: Mario Del Pero, University of Bologna
Panel 8: NATO: An Alliance of Democracies?
Chair: Patrick Jackson, American University
The West and Democracy: The Gradual Evolution of an Uneasy Relationship
Jasper Trautsch German Historical Institute
The Dangers of Democracy? Re-thinking NATO’s “Shared Values and Common Heritage”
Timothy Sayle, Temple University
“Thinking EC,” “Thinking NATO”: Transatlantic Relations in the Era of Détente
Harold Mock, University of Virginia
Comment: Ronald Granieri, Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Panel 9: Volunteers or Vanguard? Coercion, Civic-Mindedness, and American Humanitarianism in Response to the Great War
Chair: Mark Hendrickson, University of California-San Diego
Unraveling American Neutrality: American Humanitarians and the Crusade to Save Belgium, 1914-1917
Branden Little, Weber State University
How to Raise a Volunteer Army: Explaining Why American Humanitarians Served Overseas in the First World War Era
Julia Irwin, University of South Florida
Crusaders or Coerced Citizens? Motivations behind American Relief Workers in France, 1917-1924
Michael McGuire, Salem State University
“Democratic Leadership by Women for Women”: The Historical Case of a Transnational Partnership between the U.S. and Czechoslovakia
Erika Cornelius Smith, Purdue University
Comment: Mark Hendrickson
Panel 10: Nuclear Cooperation and Competition between Brazil, Germany, and the United States in the Early Cold War
Chair: William G. Gray, Purdue University,
Nuclear Science after the Bomb: The Evolution of American and British Policies toward Nuclear Science during the Early Occupation of Germany
Mary McPartland, The George Washington University
The German Connection: The Origins of the Brazilian Nuclear Program and the Secret West German-Brazilian Cooperation in the Early 1950s
Carlo Patti, Fundação Getulio Vargas
The Nuclear Nation and the German Question: American Plans for A Reactor in West Berlin
Mara Drogan, Siena College
Comment: William G. Gray
BREAK: 3:00- 3:30 PM
Sponsored by Cambridge University Press
Coffee and light refreshments served in the reception area.
Session II: 3:30 – 5:30 PM (Panels 11-20)
Panel 11: Roundtable: The U.S. Armed Forces in America and in the World
Chair: Richard Immerman, Temple University
Aaron B. O’Connell, United States Naval Academy
Gretchen Heefner, Connecticut College
Kate Epstein, University of Rutgers-Camden
Panel 12: The Cold War in Asia: A Multilateral Approach
Chair: Erez Manela, Harvard University
Marshall Green and the Formation of the U.S. East Asian Policy, 1947-73
Midori Yoshii, Albion College
Miki Takeo’s Initiative on the Korean Question and U.S.-Japanese Diplomacy, 1974-76
Seung-young Kim, University of Sheffield
China’s Last Ally: Beijing’s Policy toward North Korea during the U.S.-China Rapprochement, 1971-76
Yafeng Xia, Long Island University
Comment: Gregg Brazinsky, George Washington University
Panel 13: Nuclear Proliferation and Challenges to the U.S.-led Global Nuclear Order
Chair: Anna-Mart van Wyk, Monash University
Chasing Schrödinger’s Cat: Australia and U.S. Extended Nuclear Deterrence, 1945-1973
Christine M. Leah, Australian National University
Brazil’s Nuclear Politics Under U.S. Influence: Between Acceptance and Equidistance
Mariana Carpes, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
“Closing the Barn Door: U.S. Non-Proliferation Policy and the Israeli Nuclear Programme during the 1960s
Roland Popp, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Inevitable but Highly Controversial? The Accession of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to the NPT (1967-1975)
Andreas Lutsch, University of Mainz
Comment: Joseph F. Pilat, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Panel 14: U.S. Subjects at Home and Abroad
Chair: Nick Cullather, Indiana University
Humanity Begins at Home: America’s First Refugees and the Roots of U.S. Humanitarianism
Bethany Sharpe, University of Kentucky
Economies of Childrearing and the Formation of American Colonialism in Hawai’i, 1820-1848
Joy Schulz, Metropolitan Community College
Forgiving Empire: Debt and Difference in the Age of Decolonization
Allan Lumba, University of Washington-Seattle
Comment: Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University
Panel 15: U.S. Diplomacy, the Congo Crisis, and the Relation between the Cold War and Decolonization, 1960-1980
Chair: Ryan Irwin, University at Albany-SUNY
The Soviet Union and the Congo Crisis, 1960-61
Alessandro Iandolo, New Economic School, Moscow
The United Nations and the Congo Crisis (ONUC 1960-1964)
Katrin Zippel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
America in Africa, Africa in America: The Changing Relationship during the Johnson Years
James Meriwether, California State University, Channel Islands
Comment: Ryan Irwin
Panel 16: America, Britain and the World of the 1960s and 1970s
Chair: Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University
Anglo-American Relations and Black Africa in a Changing World
John Kent, London School of Economics
The U.S. Embassy in London and Britain’s Withdrawal from East of Suez in the 1960s
John Young, University of Nottingham
Henry Kissinger, Transatlantic Relations, and the British Origins of the Year of Europe Dispute
Matthew Jones, University of Nottingham
IDEAS, America, Britain and the Challenge of Southern Europe in the 1970s
Irene Karamouzis, Yale University and Effie Pedaliu, London School of Economics
Comment: Michael Hopkins, Liverpool University
Panel 17: Space and Empire
Chair: Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University
Remaking Housing Policy in the Americas: Colombia and the United States, 1950-1980
Amy Offner, University of Pennsylvania
Wheat for Homes and American Housing Investments in Peru, 1959-1962
Nancy Kwak, University of California at San Diego
Habitat for Non-Humanity: Foreign-Trade Zones and the Political Economy of the Customs Territory
Dara Orenstein, Wesleyan University
Comment: Paul Kramer
Panel 18: No Laughing Matter: The Use of Comics in Foreign Relations
Chair: Emily Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine
Drawing the Line: Alliance for Progress Comic Books and the Fight Against Castro’s Cuba in Latin America
Blair Woodard, University of Portland
Sanmao Takes on Little Moe: Comics in the Cold War Propaganda Contest in Asia
Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Defining the Enemy: State-Sanctioned Propaganda Comic Books at Home and Abroad, 1942-1945
Paul Hirsch, University of California, Santa Barbara
Panel 19: Agents of Influence: Alternative Diplomacies and Political Travelers in the Cold War Era
Chair: Andrew Preston, Clare College, University of Cambridge
Convenient Optimists: American Political Travelers in the Eyes of the PRC Foreign Policy Establishment
Matthew D. Johnson, Grinnell College
Dixieland in Bombay: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and the Importance of Playing Together
Danielle Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University
The Limits of Internationalism: American Political Travelers to France and the Rise of Travel Control in the Long 1960s
Moshik Temkin, Harvard University
Comment: Andrew Rotter, Colgate University
Panel 20: Transnational Labor and U.S. Foreign Relations
Chair: John Stoner, University of Pittsburgh
Race, Empire, and the Debate over the Labor Clauses of the Versailles Peace Treaty
Elizabeth McKillen, University of Maine
“Spearheads of Democracy” and the “Special Relationship”: The Histadrut, American Labor, and U.S.-Israeli Relations South of the Sahara, 1954 to 1960
Aaron Dowdall, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The AFL-CIO’s Behind the Scenes Maneuvering against the Women’s Committee
Yevette Richards-Jordan, George Mason University
Comment: Dana Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz
WELCOME RECEPTION: 5:45 – 7:00 PM, Studio C and Second Floor Reception Area
All registrants are invited to join us for light hors d’oeuvres and drinks. Beer, wine and soft drinks will be available. Each registrant will receive two drink tickets; bar will be on a cash basis thereafter.
PLENARY SESSION: 7:00 – 9:00 PM, Salon 4
America and the World – the World and America: Writing American Diplomatic History in the Longue Durée
Chair: George C. Herring, University of Kentucky
Discussants: John W. Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jay Sexton, Oxford University
Kristin L. Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul A. Kramer, Vanderbilt University
Response: Erez Manela, Harvard University
Anne L. Foster, Indiana State University
FRIDAY, 21 JUNE 2013
Job Search Workshop: 7:00 – 9:00 AM, Salon 4
Diplomatic History Editorial Board Meeting: 7:30 – 9:00 AM, Boardroom
Registration: 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM, Second Floor Reception Area
Book Exhibit: 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM, Second Floor Reception Area
Session III: 9:00 – 11:00 AM (Panels 21-32)
Panel 21: Roundtable: The Global Links and Legacies of the New Deal: The Limits of Decentering the United States in Global History
Chair: David Ekbladh, Tufts University
Vincent Lagendijk, Maastricht University
Lisa McGirr, Harvard University
Kiran Klaus Patel, Maastricht University
Panel 22: Jobs for the Ph.D. Outside Academia
Chair: Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, U.S. Naval War College
Public History
Jason H. Gart, History Associates
Journalism
Luke Nichter, Texas A&M University – Central Texas
Think Tanks
Jim Carafano, The Heritage Foundation
Federal Government History
Sarandis (Randy) Papadopoulos, U.S. Navy
Foreign Service
William Morgan, U.S. Marine Corps Command & Staff College
Historical Editing
Benjamin Huggins, The Papers of George Washington
Museums
Steve Luckert, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Panel 23: The 1970s: A Decade of Arms Control, Disarmament and Nuclear Non Proliferation
Chair: Erin Mahan, Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense
The United Nations and Non-Proliferation, 1955-1981
Mervyn O’Driscoll, University College Cork
SALT I: The European Dimension
Ralph Dietl, Queen’s University Belfast
MBFR: A Strategic Analysis
Christoph Bluth, University of Leeds
Against the Tide: Arms Control Critics and the Emergence of a Conservative Counterculture, 1969-1980
Ronald Granieri, Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Comment: William Burr, National Security Archive and George Washington University
Panel 24: Spain and the Global World, 1870-1930: Defying Conventional Narratives of U.S.-Spain Relations
Chair: Brooke L. Blower, Boston University
Diplomatic Backing for the American Invaders? U.S. Economic expansión in Spain, 1870-1900
Andrés Sánchez Padilla, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Negotiating Modernity: Singer in Spain, 1890-1915
Paula de la Cruz, Florida International University
Between Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia: Spanish Immigrants in the United States and the Legacy of Empire
Ana María Varela-Lago, Northern Arizona University
Comment: José A. Montero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Panel 25: The “Painful Moment”: The United States and Rhodesia, 1975-77
Chair: Sue Onslow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Good Strategy or Good Timing? Jimmy Carter’s Rhodesian Diplomacy
Will Bishop, Vanderbilt University
“They must get on and play the hand accordingly”: Pretoria and the Kissinger Initiatives on Southern Africa
Jamie Miller, University of Cambridge and Yale University
Ripe for Settlement? Kissinger’s Attempted Mediation of the Rhodesian Conflict
Carl Watts, University of Michigan and University of Southampton
Comment: Timothy Scarnecchia, Kent State University
Panel 26: Reciprocal Impact: Inter-American Capitalisms and U.S. Empire in the 20th Century
Chair: Cyrus Veeser, Bentley University
Dark Finance & Odious Debt: The Chase Manhattan Bank in Cuba, 1926-1935
Peter James Hudson, Vanderbilt University
“The Crowning of Injustice”: Price Politics and the Passing of the “Century of the Common Man” in Chile
Joshua Frens-String, New York University
Cold War Drug Wars: Cuba & the United States
Suzanna Reiss, University of Hawai`i Mānoa
Sovereignty, Property Rights, and (Inter)Nationalism: Mexico Crashes Versailles
Christy Thornton, New York University
Comment: Cyrus Veeser
Panel 27: The Cold War in Southeast Asia and American Power
Chair: Ronald Spector, George Washington University
The MCP, the MCA, and Chinese “Nationalist Internationalism” in the Cold War World
Anna Belogurova, Nanyang Technological University
Military Concerns and Popular Music: American Interests and Influence in Singapore, 1967-1973
Jason Lim, University of Wollongong
Exploiting the Cold War: Southeast Asia and American Power
S.R. Joey Long, Nanyang Technological University
The Vietnamese Invasion of Kampuchea (December 1978) and the Sino-Vietnamese War (February 1979): An International-History Perspective
Ang Cheng Guan, Nanyang Technological University
Comment: Doug MacDonald, Colgate University
Panel 28: Ending the Cold War in Central Europe
Chair: Aviel Roshwald, Georgetown University
The Demise of the Soviet Bloc
Mark Kramer, Harvard University
“Protecting the Right Flank”: Presidents Reagan & Bush and the End of the Cold War
Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans
New Perspectives from Soviet-Era Documents on Austrian Cold War Neutrality and Its Changing Nature in the 1980s
Peter Ruggenthaler, Boltzmann-Institute for Research on War Consequences, Graz
Mrs. Thatcher and German Unification
Klaus Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Comment: Berthold Molden, University of New Orleans
Panel 29: Asian-American Transnationalism and Politics: The First Half of the Twentieth Century
Chair: Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
A Tale of Two Leagues: Entwining the Fight for Indian Immigration and Independence during World War II
Jane Hong, Harvard University
Towards a Transnational History of Japanese Internment
Nick Kapur, Harvard University
The Transnational Path to Nationalist Revolution: The Circle of Yuan Shikai
Steffen Rimner, Harvard University
Comment: Naoko Shibusawa
Panel 30: Interrogating the Limits of Possibility: Race and Gender at the United Nations, 1946-1956
Chair: Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
India’s Case Against South Africa: Print Culture and the Rhetoric of Possibility at the UN General Assembly
Julie Laut, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Soviet Strategies at the UN: The Colonized Woman and Cold War Politics, 1946-1956
Giusi Russo, State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton
“We have a definitive stake and a definite contribution to make”: African American Women, the United Nations and the Making of the Post-World War II World
Julie Gallagher, Penn State Brandywine
Comment: Karen Garner, State University of New York (SUNY) Empire State College
Panel 31: Evangelical Projections
Chair: Seth Jacobs, Boston College
Accidental Diplomats: The Influence of American Evangelical Missionaries on US Relations with the Congo during the Early Cold War, 1959-1963
Philip Dow, University of Cambridge
To Support a “Brother in Christ”: Evangelical Groups and U.S.-Guatemalan Relations during the Ríos Montt Regime
Lauren Turek, University of Virginia
Witness to Apartheid
Melani McAlister, George Washington University
Gospel Glasnost: Billy Graham, the State Department, and the Politics of Iron Curtain Evangelization
Benjamin Brandenburg, Temple University
Comment: Andrew Preston, Clare College, University of Cambridge
Panel 32: The Place of Space in U.S. Foreign Relations
Chair: Martin Collins, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
The Space Race and American Public Diplomacy
Teasel Muir-Harmony, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Soviet-American Collaboration in Weather Satellites: Cold War Ideology and Scientific Practice
Angelina Long Callahan, Naval Research Laboratory
NASA as an Instrument of Nonproliferation
John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology
LUNCHEON: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Salon 4
Pre-registration and tickets required.
The United States and the Global Human Rights Imagination
Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago
SHAFR President
Session IV: 1:00 – 3:00 PM (Panels 33-44)
Panel 33: Roundtable: Where is SHAFR Headed? Assessing Our Advances in Diversity
Petra Goedde, Temple University
Kelly Shannon, University of Alaska Anchorage
Katherine Sibley, St. Joseph’s University
Panel 34: The Origins of the Iraq War: A Ten Year Retrospective on the Knowns and the Unknowns
Chair: Melvyn Leffler, University of Virginia
Seth Center, U.S. Department of State
Charles Duelfer, UNSCOM
J. Scott Norwood, Naval Postgraduate School
David Palkki, National Defense University
Panel 35: Challenges to the American Nuclear Order
SHAFR GLOBAL SCHOLARS GRANT PANEL
Panelists have been awarded funding by the Membership and Program Committees as part of the SHAFR Global Scholars Initiative.
Chair: Leopoldo Nuti, University of Rome 3
Carter’s Dilemma: South Africa’s Nuclear Crises, 1977-1979
Lucky Asuelime and Raquel Adekoye, University of KwaZulu-Natal
The Politics of the Atom: United States and the Odyssey of the Franco-Indian Nuclear Dissidence, 1950-1974
Jayita Sarkar, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
The Nixon Administration and the Coming into Force of the NPT
Liu Lei, Nanjing University
A Flash in the Pan: Romania and the NPT, 1968-1975
Eliza Gheorghe, University of Mainz
Comment: Joseph F. Pilat, National Security Office, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Panel 36: The Problems and Possibilities of Immigration in American Foreign Relations
Chair: Ralph B. Levering, Davidson College
“Locking the Stable Door After the Horse is Stolen:” American Debates over Efforts to Restrict Anarchist Immigration, 1890-1903
Alexander P. Noonan, Boston College
The United States’ Immigration Experience in the Australian Imagination, 1901-1924
David Atkinson, Purdue University
Sport, Immigration, and Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1956-1970
Anne Blaschke, Bridgewater State University
Comment: Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Panel 37: U.S. “Air Power” during World War II and the Early Cold War: The Voice of America and a Precursor
Chair: Robert Waters, Ohio Northern University
Domestic Influences on India’s Foreign Policy: The VOA Controversy, 1962-1963
Eric D. Pullin, Carthage College
Broadcasting by the Voice of America (VOA) to Czechoslovakia during the 1940s and 1950s
Jan Koura, Charles University
World War II Thai Language Broadcasts: Precursor to the U.S. Cold War Propaganda Program in Thailand
Bruce Reynolds, San Jose State University
Comment: Michael Krysko, Kansas State University
Panel 38: Carter, Reagan and the Middle East
Chair: Paul Chamberlin, University of Kentucky
“Joining the Jackals:” Andy Young, the Middle East and Carter’s Failed Demarche to World Opinion
Sean Byrnes, Emory University
Jimmy and the Jets: Capitol Hill Fight over the Carter Administration’s 1978 Middle East Warplanes Package Sale
Daniel Strieff, London School of Economics
Neoconservatives Rising: Reagan’s Cold War in the Middle East, 1980-1982
Seth Anziska, Columbia University
Taking the Battle Abroad: The Lebanese Pursuit of American Support during the Lebanese Civil War
Laila Ballout, Northwestern University
Comment: William Quandt, University of Virginia
Panel 39: Diplomacy and the Politics of U.S-Latin American Cultural Exchange, 1900-1945
Chair: Stephen G. Rabe, University of Texas at Dallas
Grassroots Diplomacy: The OCIAA and Philanthropic Diplomacy in Latin America during World War II
Monica Rankin, University of Texas at Dallas
The Origins of Civic Pan Americanism: John Barrett and the Pan American Society
Dina Berger, Loyola University Chicago
“Factories that Forge the Soul”: Student Exchange and U.S-Latin American Relations, 1933-1945
Julie Irene Prieto, Stanford University
Comment: Dennis Merrill, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Panel 40: The Twentieth Anniversary of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations: What Next?
Chair: Charles Hayford, Independent Scholar, Emeritus, Past Editor, JAEAR
Michael Barnhart, SUNY, Stony Brook, Founding Editor, JAEAR
Franklin Ng, California State, Fresno, Past Editor, JAEAR
T. Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia, Past Editor, JAEAR
James Matray, California State, Chico, Editor, JAEAR
Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University, Associate Editor, JAEAR
Andrew Rotter, Colgate University
Panel 41: The Cold War Through Third World Eyes: Third World Understandings of and Policy in the Cold War
Chair: Joseph Andy Fry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Containing Their Own Backyard: Dictators and Counterrevolutionary Exiles in the Early “Cold” War in Central America and the Caribbean, 1944-1954
Aaron Moulton, University of Arkansas
Sovereignty and Unity in the Face of Imperialist Distraction: Arab Nationalists and the Cold War in the 1950s
R. Thomas Bobal, Georgia State University
A Luta Continua: Portuguese Africa and American Anti-colonialism
Joseph Parrott, University of Texas at Austin
Comment: Chris Dietrich, Fordham University
Panel 42: Developing Alternatives: New Perspectives on Development Thought and Practice during the Early Cold War Era
Chair: Thomas Robertson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
From Small to Big: The Politics of Scale in Twentieth Century U.S. Development Policy
Stephen Macekura, University of Virginia
The Rinderpest Campaign and Interspecies Internationalism
Amanda McVety, Miami University
Developing the Village in Order to Save It: Development Ideas and Counterinsurgency Warfare in South Vietnam, 1950-1975
Edward Miller, Dartmouth College
Comment: Thomas Robertson
Panel 43: Challenging Government: The Contributions of Anna Kasten Nelson
Chair: Richard Immerman, Temple University, and Chair of the Historical Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of State
On the area of national security research: I. M. Destler, University of Maryland
On the area of women in foreign policy: Emily S. Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine
On the area of access to archives: Trudy Huskamp Peterson, Chair, Working Group on Access, International Council on Archives
Overview and reflections: Robert L. Beisner, American University
Panel 44: Teaching America to the World and the World to America
Sponsored by the SHAFR Teaching Committee
Chair: Chester Pach, Ohio University
Traveling to Vietnam with Students
Jessica Chapman, Williams College
Traveling to Germany with Students; Serving as Mary Ball Washington Professor at University College Dublin
Kenneth Osgood, Colorado School of Mines
Teaching U.S. History in the UK; Distance Teaching and Learning
J. Simon Rofe, SOAS University of London
Teaching U.S. Foreign Relations in Ireland
Sandra Scanlon, University College Dublin
BREAK: 3:00 – 3:30 PM
Coffee and light refreshments served in the reception area. Please note that the Book Exhibit and Registration Desk will close at 3:30 PM today.
Session V: 3:30 – 5:30 PM (Panels 45-51)
Please note that some panels during this session are located on the first floor of the adjoining Marriott Residence Inn. You can reach the Residence Inn through a door at the end of the hallway past Studio D and Studio E. Go downstairs to the first floor for Potomac 1 and Potomac 2.
Panel 45: Security versus Transparency as Exemplified Through the History of the “Foreign Relations of the United States” Series
Chair: William B. McAllister, Office of the Historian, Department of State & Georgetown University
Joshua Botts, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia
Robert E. Jervis, Columbia University
Mary L. Dudziak, Emory University School of Law
Robert McMahon, Ohio State University
Panel 46: Questioning the NPT: The Evolution of the U.S. Nuclear Policy and the Middle East from the Nixon Administration to the End of the Cold War
Chair: Roland Popp: Center for Security Studies, ETH – Zurich
Presidential Preference: Determining the Place for the NPT in American Policy
Megan Reiss, University of Texas at Austin
Twin Pillars Policy and Non-proliferation: The United States and the FRG-Iran Nuclear Agreement
Vittorio Felci, University of Szeged
Present Dangers: The Debate on Deterrence and Proliferation Inside the First Reagan Administration
Giordana Pulcini, University of Roma Tre
U.S. Deterrence Performances in the Gulf War in Light of New Iraqi Documents
Avner Golov, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
Comment: Francis J. Gavin, University of Texas at Austin
Panel 47: Crafting a New World Order: The Foreign Policy of the George H.W. Bush Administration
Chair: Jeffrey A. Engel, Southern Methodist University
Presidential Peacemaking: President George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War, 1989-91
J. Simon Rofe, University of London
War on the Line: Telephone Diplomacy and the Building and Maintenance of the Desert Storm Coalition
Jeffrey Crean, Texas A&M University
Dancing with the (Media) Stars: How the Bush White House Courted and Competed with the Press over the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War
Bartholomew Sparrow, University of Texas at Austin
How the U.S. Shaped the Security Council Sanctions on Iraq, 1990-1991
Joy Gordon, Fairfield University
Comment: David F. Schmitz, Whitman College
Panel 48: Cold War Connections and World Communities in the 1960s and 1970s
Chair: Pierre Journoud, Cornell University
Breaking the Gavel: The Cold War and the Historic U.N. General Assembly 15th Session, September 1960
Lise Namikas, Louisiana State University
“Nkrumah Promised Mountains and Marvels”: Congo, Algeria, and the Battle for Africa in the Early 1960s
Jeffrey Byrne, University of British Columbia
Diplomacy and Third World Solidarities: 20 Years of Zimbabwean Cold War Diplomatic Maneuvering, 1963-1983
Tim Scarnecchia, Kent State University
Firing Andrew Young: Race and the Cold War in August 1979
Nancy Mitchell, North Carolina State University
Comment: Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin
Panel 49: Encounters: American Occupation Policy and Diplomacy in Postwar Germany
Chair: Heather Dichter, Ithaca College
Equality Before Efficiency: American Antitrust Law and European Integration
Ben Brady, University of Virginia
Punishment or Persuasion?: The American Occupation of Germany and the Experiment of Denazification, 1945-1949
W. Mikkel Dack, University of Calgary
American Suppliers: Informal Diplomacy in the Illicit Postwar German Economy
Mike Fasulo, Texas A & M University
The Seeds of Totalitarianism: American Voluntary Agencies and the German Family in U.S.-Occupied Germany
Sara Fieldston, Yale University
Comment: Heather Dichter
Panel 50: The Politics of Human Rights and Humanitarianism
Chair: Kristin L. Ahlberg, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Human Rights in the United Nations: A Reappraisal
Amy Sayward, Middle Tennessee State University
The International Politics of Welfare: Egypt, India and U.S. Food Aid, 1940s-1950s
Samantha Iyer, University of California, Berkeley
The “Irish Question” Redux: The Ulster Troubles as an Anglo-American Human Rights Problem
Joseph Renouard, The Citadel
Comment: Kristin L. Ahlberg
Panel 51: Culture and American-European-Cuban Connections during the Cold War
Chair: Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University
Building Bridges Across the Atlantic: The European Union Visitors Program: A Case Study for Public Diplomacy and the Transatlantic Relationship in the Seventies
Alessandra Bitumi, University of Bologna
Return: U.S.-Soviet-Cuban Dance Diplomacy at the Close of the Cold War
Lauren Erin Brown, Marymount Manhattan College
“Very Correct Adversaries”: Ice Hockey and Czechoslovak-U.S. Relations
John Soares, University of Notre Dame
Comment: Nicholas Cull, University of Southern California
SOCIAL EVENT: 7:00 – 11:00 PM
Dinner dance at Top of the Town in Alexandria. Pre-registration and tickets required. See ad in this program for more information. Space is limited so plan ahead!
SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2013
Registration: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Second Floor Reception Area
Book Exhibit: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Second Floor Reception Area
Breakfast Forum: 8:00 – 9:00 AM, Salon 4
The Crisis in Public Higher Education: A SHAFR Response
Please join us for a broad discussion on the crisis in public higher education. Light breakfast refreshments will be served.
Moderator: Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota Duluth
Comments: Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University
Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles
Julie Laut, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
Bevan Sewell, University of Nottingham
Session VI: 9:00 – 11:00 AM (Panels 52-63)
Panel 52: Why Do Emotions Matter in International History?
Chair: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut
The Honour Game: Pride and Humiliation in Europe’s 1914 July Crisis
Ute Frevert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Carter and Sadat: Politics, Friendship, and Peace
Tizoc Chavez, Vanderbilt University
The Trauma of Vietnam and the Rise of Human Rights
Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne
Comment: Frank Costigliola
Panel 53: Roundtable: The Test Ban Treaty 50 Years On: New Perspectives on Nuclear Arms Control and the Cold War
Chair: David Holloway, Stanford University
James Goodby, Hoover Institution and Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
Benjamin Greene, Bowling Green State University
Toshihiro Higuchi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paul Rubinson, Bridgewater State University
John R. Walker, Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit, United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Panel 54: Independence in the International Realm: From the Revolution to the Fisheries Dispute of 1852
Chair: J.C.A. Stagg, University of Virginia
The Law of Nations in John Jay’s Mission to Spain
Benjamin Lyons, Columbia University
A “Necessary” War: John Adams and the War of 1812
Rhonda Barlow, University of Virginia
The Not-So-Special Relationship: The United States, Great Britain, and the Fisheries Dispute of 1852
Thomas Blake Earle, Rice University
“America’s most important colonial possession”: The American Invasion of the British World, 1867-1914
Stephen Tuffnell, University of Oxford
Comment:
Panel 55: The Roots of a Republican Postwar Foreign Policy, 1945-1955
Chair: Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
Post-war Conservative Visions of World Order: The Significance of Robert Taft’s Foreign Policy for Americans
Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University
The American Occupations of Germany and Japan as the First Lessons in Building the New Global Economic Order
Grant Madsen, Brigham Young University
Harold Stassen and the U.S. Government’s University Contracts Abroad Program in the 1950s
Ethan Schrum, University of Virginia
Comment: Andrew Johns, Brigham Young University
Panel 56: Domestic Politics and Diplomacy: U.S. Relations with Central America and the Caribbean during the Late Cold War
Chair: Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University
A Failure of Dialogue: U.S. Policy toward Cuba and the Cuban American Community, 1977-1980
Hideaki Kami, Ohio State University & University of Tokyo
Citizen Diplomacy and Transnational Politics in the Contra War
Roger Peace, Tallahassee Community College
Creating a Just Cause: Noriega, Drugs, and Justifying Intervention in Post-Cold War Latin America
Aileen Teague, Vanderbilt University
Comment: Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma
Panel 57: “Peoples Quite Apart”: Americans in South Vietnam & South Vietnamese in America during the Second Indochina War
Chair: George Herring, University of Kentucky
Between the Paris of the Orient and Ho Chi Minh City: Imaginings and Reportage in Wartime Saigon, 1954-1975
Jeffrey A. Keith, Warren Wilson College
American Intervention and South Vietnamese Nationalism in Duyên Anh’s Giặc Ô kê (The Okay Invaders) and Mơ thành người Quang Trung (Aspire to be Quang Trung)
Nu-Anh Tran, University of California, Berkeley
South Vietnamese in the U.S. against U.S. policy in Vietnam: Unintended Consequences of a U.S. Nation-State Building Initiative
Nguyet Nguyen, American University
Comment: John Prados, National Security Archive
Panel 58: The Cold War After Stalin: New International Evidence
Chair: Mark Kramer, Harvard University
Formulating a “Peace Zone”: The Soviet Union and China’s Foreign Policy During the 1950s
Tao Wang, Yale University
Carving A Diplomatic Niche? Examining the April 1956 Soviet Visit to Britain as a Missed Opportunity for Cold War De-escalation
Simon Miles, University of Texas at Austin
Discrimination through Registration: International Human Rights and the Repression of the Crimean Tatars during De-Stalinization
Andrew Straw, University of Texas at Austin
Comment: Timothy Naftali, The New America Foundation
Panel 59: Neoliberalism and Third World Politics in the late Cold War
Chair: David Engerman, Brandeis University
The Poverty Curtain: Two Critiques of Neoliberal Diplomacy
Chris Dietrich, Fordham University
A “Program for Survival”: The Brandt Commission and Transnational Development Networking in the 1970s
Victor Nemchenok, University of Virginia
From Extraterritoriality to Special Economic Zones: The Decline of Anti-Imperialism and the Reconstruction of Global Capital Markets
Chris Miller, Yale University
Comment: Amy Offner, University of Pennsylvania
Panel 60: Humanitarian Diplomacy in the World War I Era
Chair: Julia F. Irwin, University of South Florida
A New Benevolent Empire: Immigration and War Relief at the American Century’s Dawn
Stephen R. Porter, University of Cincinnati
Diplomacy of Neutrality: Politics of American Humanitarian Relief in Ottoman Beirut, 1914-1918
Melanie Schulze Tanielian, University of Michigan
The Warfare of Relief: How the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society Reached Jewish War Sufferers during World War I
Jaclyn Granick, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Comment: Julia F. Irwin
Panel 61: The American Way of Law in War from Korea to Vietnam
Chair: Sarah Snyder, University College London
Bombing Civilians after World War II: The Persistence of Norms against Targeting Civilians in the Korean War
Sahr Conway-Lanz, Yale University Library
Crisis Precedes Transformation: International Law and U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965
Brian Cuddy, Cornell University
The Conviction of William Calley: American Public Opinion and International Rules of War
Christine Lamberson, Angelo State University
Comment: Mary L. Dudziak, Emory University School of Law
Panel 62: African Americans, Diplomacy, and International Relations
Chair: Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University
“The Importantly Dual Task”: Flemmie Kittrell, Edith Sampson, and Dorothy Ferebee’s Travels for the U.S. State Department
Brandy S. Thomas, Ohio State University
Italy, African-American Internationalism and Revolutionary Cuba, 1960s and 1970s
Alberto Benvenuti, University of Florence
Congressional Leadership and the U.S. Approach to African Affairs: Charles C. Diggs
Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Race Diplomacy: African Americans and the Racial Roots of American Cultural Diplomacy
Athan Biss, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Comment: Adriane Lentz-Smith
Panel 63: Borders, Camps, and Streets: Debating Citizenship and Foreign Policy
Chair: Lorena Oropeza; University of California, Davis
Stand Up and Be Counted: Citizenship, Masculinity and Japanese American Incarceration
Terumi Rafferty-Osaki, American University
Do Not Enter (Unless We Want your Labor): Negotiating Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Mary E. Mendoza, University of California, Davis
The Right to Speak: Citizenship, Dissent, and Nixon’s Vietnam War
Sarah Thelen, American University
Holocaust Angst: The Federal Republic of Germany and Holocaust Memory in the United States
Jacob S. Eder, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
SHAFR Global Scholars Grant Award Winner
Panelist has been awarded funding by the Membership and Program Committees as part of the SHAFR Global Scholars Initiative.
Comment: Lorena Oropeza
LUNCHEON: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Salon 4
Pre-registration and tickets required.
Legacy vs. Access?: The Challenges of Researching Presidential History
Timothy J. Naftali, National Security Studies Program, New America Foundation
Former Director, Nixon Presidential Library
Session VII: 1:00-3:00 PM (Panels 64-74)
Panel 64: Roundtable: The 35th Anniversary of Orientalism and Edward Said’s Legacy on U.S. Diplomatic History
Chair: Doug Little, Clark University
Waleed Hazbun, American University of Beirut
Maurice Jr. Labelle, University of Saskatchewan
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ohio State University
John Munro, St. Mary’s University
Panel 65: Reimagining the Monroe Doctrine
Chair: Serge Richard, Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris III)
The Greek War of Independence, the Monroe Doctrine and the Birth of the Clash of Civilizations Theory
Karine Walther, Georgetown School of Foreign Service – Qatar
“Careful not to adopt or endorse all the opinions of President Washington”: Washington’s Farewell Address, Monroe’s Doctrine, and the Battle over Foreign Policy Ideals in the 1840s
Jeffrey Malanson, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Old Colossus, New Colossus: Patterns of Slavery Interests in American Civil-War Era Hegemony
Steven Heath Mitton, Utah State University
Comment: Jay Sexton, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University
Panel 66: Capturing the Second Sun: Atoms for Peace in the Global Context
Chair: Peter Kuznick, American University
Blessing of Atomic Energy: The Japanese Embrace of Atoms for Peace as a Resource of U.S. Public Diplomacy
Yuka Tsuchiya, Ehime University
Nukes Down Under: Turning Atoms for Peace into Weapons for War
Mick Broaderick, Murdoch University
The Atoms for Peace Exhibition in Hiroshima
Ran Zwigenberg, City University of New York
For the Good of Mankind: American Atomic Age Diplomacy in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Jessica A. Schwartz, Columbia University
Comment: Peter Kuznick
Panel 67: Roundtable: Teaching Statesmanship to Statesmen
Chair: Aaron O’Connell, United States Naval Academy
Charles Edel, United States Naval War College
Francis Gavin, University of Texas at Austin
Helen Anderson, Naval Postgraduate School
Mary Habeck, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Jeffrey A. Engel, Southern Methodist University
Panel 68: U.S. Conservatives in the Global Cold War: The American Right and the World, 1939-1972
Chair: T. Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia
America’s Leading Anti-“Consensus” Cold Warrior: Herbert Hoover and Cold War America’s Rise in the World, 1939-1965
Kevin Y. Kim, Stanford University
Defending the Empire: Conservatives Supporting the Vietnam War
Seth Offenbach, Bronx Community College
Searching for the Center: Youth Politics and Richard Nixon’s Foreign Policy, 1968-1972
Seth Blumenthal, Boston University
Panel 69: America and Africa: The Unconventional Diplomacy of the U.S. in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1949-1963
Comment: Jason Parker, Texas A&M University
American Race Relations & Sub-Saharan Africa: Truman’s Fourth Point and the Technical Cooperation Administration, 1949-1953
Hannah Higgin, University of Cambridge
The Gospel of Stability: The Eisenhower Presidency, Cultural Assistance and Education in Africa and the Third World, 1953-1961
Frank Gerits, European University Institute
Mali: A Distant Front in the Soviet-American Cold War and the Frontline of the Franco-American Cold War
Philip Muehlenbeck, George Washington University
Kennedy, Teachers and the Peace Corps in East Africa, 1961-1963
Timothy A. Nicholson, State University of New York at Delhi
Comment: Jason Parker
Panel 70: New Looks on U.S.-South Vietnamese Relations: Politics, Society, and Culture in the Vietnam War
Chair: Robert Brigham, Vassar College
“These Goodies Haunt Your Mind”: Consumer Culture and Resistance to American Nation-Building in South Vietnam, 1963-1975
Helen Pho, University of Texas, Austin
The Brothel Debate: American Policy and the Making of Love and War in Vietnam
Amanda Boczar, University of Kentucky
Winning “a bit too well”: Nixon, Thieu, and the 1971 South Vietnamese Presidential Elections
Sean Fear, Cornell University
Comment: Jessica Chapman, Williams College
Panel 71: Trouble in the Homeland: Central & East European Migrants and U.S. Foreign Policy
Chair: Berthold Molden, University of Vienna & University of New Orleans
Transatlantic Perspectives on the “Slovak Question,” 1914 to 1948
Michael Cude, University of Colorado-Boulder
Imagined and Contested: Brotherhood, Unity, and the “Yugoslavia Idea” in Cold War America
Louie Milojevic, American University
“Captive Nations”: A Propaganda Concept or a Political Lobby?
Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk & State University of New York at Buffalo
Comment: Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans
Panel 72: Human Rights in the Long 1960s
Chair: William I. Hitchcock, University of Virginia
“At Home and Around the World”: Kennedy’s Commitment to Human Rights
Sarah B. Snyder, University College London
The Breakthrough Decade? International Human Rights Diplomacy and Law in the 1960s
Steven Jensen, University of Copenhagen & Danish Institute for Human Rights
Rights, Decolonization, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Ryan M. Irwin, University at Albany-SUNY
Comment: Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne
Panel 73: Sovereignty Diffused, Power Transformed? International Relations in the 1970s
Chair: Thomas “Tim” Borstelmann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Oil and Global Power in the 1970s
Victor McFarland, Yale University
Human Rights, Permeability, and Peace in the 1970s
Michael Morgan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Managing Interdependence, Making Globalization?
Daniel Sargent, University of California, Berkeley
Petrodollar Promise and Peril: The Middle East Economy and Changing American Conceptions of Power in the 1970s
David Wight, University of California, Irvine
Comment: Thomas “Tim” Borstelmann
Panel 74: Global Midwest: Writing the American Heartland into U.S. Foreign Relations
Chair: Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles
The Routes of the Modern American Empire: Reconsidering William Appleman Williams through the Case of the Berkshire Hog
Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Clevelander Quits U.S. for Africa”: Garveyism and the History of the Diasporic Midwest
Erik S. McDuffie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nationwide is on Your Side in Delhi: Capitalism and Cooperation in International Development during the Cold War
Nicole Sackley, University of Richmond
Comment: Christopher Endy
BREAK: 3:00-3:30 PM
Coffee and light refreshments served in the reception area.
Session VIII: 3:30 – 5:30 PM (Panels 75-84)
Panel 75: Rivalry and Challenges on the Edges of Empire
Chair: James Hershberg, George Washington University
The Limits of Cooperation: Anglo-American Relations in the Arabian Peninsula in the 1960s
Helene von Bismarck, Independent Scholar
P.R. on the Periphery: Cold War Public Diplomacy Rivalries during the Imperial Transition
Jason Parker, Texas A&M University
Anglo-American Wartime Competition in Latin America Revisited: Global Communications, Signals Intelligence and World War II
Jonathan Reed Winkler, Wright State University
Comment: Steven Galpern, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Panel 76: Releasing State Secrets: A Roundtable Discussion on the Department of State’s Declassification Program
Chair: William P. Fischer, Chief, Systematic Review Program, U.S. Department of State
Jeff Charlston, Chief, Paper Review Branch, Systematic Review Program, U.S. Department of State
Carl Ashley, Chief, Declassification and Publishing Division, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Panel 77: Roundtable: The Problem of Sovereignty and U.S. Foreign Relations
Chair: Brad Simpson, Princeton University
Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University
Daniel Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College
Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University
Rebecca Herman, University of California, Berkeley
Panel 78: Manly Men and Unmanly Rogues: Diplomatic Dilemmas of the Early Republic
Chair: Robert Allison, Suffolk University,
From Christiansted to Cap-Français: Edward Stevens and U.S. Diplomacy in Saint-Domingue
Ronald Angelo Johnson, Texas State University
The Quasi-War, Print Publicity, and the Politics of Slavery in the Early Republic
Wendy Helen Wong, Temple University
An Earlier Affair of the Petticoat: A U.S. Diplomatic Incident in the Barbary
Shannon Duffy, Texas State University
Comment: Robert Allison
Panel 79: The Origins of Modern American Counter-Terrorism
Chair: Timothy Naftali, New America Foundation
The Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Katherine Unterman, Texas A&M University
The FBI’s White Slave Division, 1910-1917
Jessica Pliley, Texas State University, San Marcos
International Anarchist Terrorism, 1898-1904
Mary Barton, University of Virginia
Comment: Hal Brands, Duke University
Panel 80: The U.S. & the Arab World
Chair: Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara
U.S. Foreign Policy towards North Africa during the Cold War, 1954-1963: From Eisenhower to Kennedy
Mohieddine Hadhri ,Tunis University
The Origins of Central Command and Its Impact on America’s Relationship with the Middle East
Nathan Packard, Georgetown University
Rethinking “Armed Minorities”: How Minority Problems and Ethnic Politics Shaped the Emergence of the Cold War in the Near East
James Helicke, Ohio State University
The Emergence of the “Partnership for the 21st Century” between Washington and Ankara
Ekavi Athanassopoulou, University of Athens
Comment: Craig Daigle, City College
Panel 81: New Transnational Narratives on the Latin American Cold War
Chair: William Michael Schmidli, Bucknell University
The Transnational Latin American Origins of U.S. Human Rights Politics in the 1970s
Patrick William Kelly, University of Chicago
Transnational Activists as U.S. Foreign Policy Makers in the Salvadoran Cold War, 1981-1992
Andrea Onate, Princeton University
National Security, Individual Rights, and the Transnational Development of U.S. and Argentine Law in the 1970s
Lynsay Brooke, University of California, Berkeley
Comment: William Michael Schmidli
Panel 82: Drugs, Dictators, Spies, and Unintended Consequences: The United States and Southeast Asia
Chair: E. Shawn McHale, George Washington University
The Journey from 1909 to 1931: Southeast Asia and U.S. Efforts to Combat Opium
Anne L. Foster, Indiana State University
The United States and Burma’s Ne Win, 1948-1975
Kenton Clymer, Northern Illinois University
Inciting Violence: U.S. Covert Operations in 1964-1965 Indonesia
Laura Iandola, Northern Illinois University
Comment: David L. Anderson, California State University, Monterey Bay
Panel 83: Looking at the World: Non-State Conceptions of Internationalism in the 1930s-1950s
Chair: Kathleen Burk, University College London
Mars Attacks?: Radio Waves, a Shrinking Earth, and International Politics in a “Troublesome World”
David Ekbladh, Tufts University
American Foundations and the Global Foreign Affairs Institute Network, 1930s-1950s
Katharina Rietzler, Cambridge University
The Christian Commonwealth across the Atlantic: John Foster Dulles, Lionel Curtis, Arnold Toynbee, and the Problem of Global Peace
Bevan Sewell, University of Nottingham
The American Bar Association, Human Rights and the Post-War International Order
Hanne Hagtvedt Vik, University of Oslo
Comment: Andrew Johnstone, University of Leicester
Panel 84: The Multiplicity of Borders: Intersections of Gender, Race, and the Body in the Borders of the U.S. Empire
Chair: Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
“Small Disease-Ringed Circles”: The Medicalization of the U.S./Canadian Border, 1890-1948
Christine Peralta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Filipina Imperial Crossings: Negotiating Migration and Identity across Racialized and Gendered Borders, 1903 to 1935
Genevieve Clutario, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The “Redemption” of Mexico: Latino Liberals and Anglo Annexationists in the 1860s
Teresa Van Hoy, St. Mary’s University
Comment: Marisa Belausteguigoitia