Barbara (Ara) Keys
History Department 43 North Bailey Durham University Durham DH1 3EX, United Kingdom ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8026-4932 E-mail: [email protected] Personal website: http://www.barbarakeys.com
EDUCATION Ph.D. in History, Harvard University, 2001 Fields: International History since 1815; United States since 1789; Modern Russia; Medieval Russia (Akira Iriye, Ernest May, Terry Martin) A.M. in History, Harvard University, 1996 M.A. in History, University of Washington, 1992 B.A. in History, summa cum laude, Carleton College (Northfield, MN), 1987
POSITIONS Durham University Professor, History Department, 2020-present
University of Melbourne Assistant Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts, 2018-2019 Professor, History, 2019-2020 Associate Professor, History, 2015-2018 Senior Lecturer, History, 2009-2014 Lecturer, History, 2006-2009
California State University, Sacramento Assistant Professor, History Department, 2003-2005
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Research Scholar, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 2003
OTHER Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz Senior Research Fellow, Spring 2017 Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin Visiting Scholar, Center for the History of Emotions, Spring 2016 Harvard University Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Fall 2012 University of California, Berkeley Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Spring 2009
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION ______
President (elected), Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2019 Fellow (elected), Royal Historical Society (UK), 2019- Fellow (selected), Australian Society for Sports History, 2019- Stuart Bernath Lecture Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2010
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CURRENT BOOK PROJECTS ______
• “Broken Dreams: Global Human Rights and the Campaign to Ban Torture” • “Kissinger and China: The Diplomacy of Seduction”
PUBLICATIONS ______
Books
Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s, Harvard University Press, 2014. Hardcover and Kindle eBook.
Reviewed in New York Review of Books, Weekly Standard, Times Higher Education, Minneapolis Star Tribune, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Reviews in History, Reviews in American History, Diplomatic History, Canadian Journal of History, Fides et Historia, Utblick de Mänskliga Rättigheternas Historia (Sweden), Weekendavisen (Denmark), Ricerche di Storia Politica (Italy), Neue Politische Literatur (Germany), Sehepunkte (Germany), H-1960s, H-Diplo
• Winner, 2015 Woodward Medal in Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Melbourne
Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s, Harvard University Press, 2006. Paperback edition, 2013.
Prizes for Globalizing Sport: • Myrna Bernath Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2008 • Akira Iriye International History Book Award (co-winner), Foundation for Pacific Quest, 2006-7 • Book Award, North American Society for Sport History, 2006 • Best Book Prize, Australian Society for Sports History, 2006 • Best Book Prize, International Society for Olympic Historians, 2006 • Jean Monnet Publication Prize, Contemporary Europe Research Centre, University of Melbourne, 2007
Edited Book
The Ideals of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights (editor). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Hardcover and Kindle eBook.
• Book Award (Edited), Australian Society for Sports History, 2017-2019 • Anthology Award, North American Society for Sport History, 2019
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Peter Benenson, Decolonization, the Origins of Amnesty International,” under review.
“Henry Kissinger, China, and the Olympic Games as a Transnational Corporate Networking Node, 1993-2008,” coauthored with Joe Eaton, in preparation.
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“The Diplomat’s Two Minds: Deconstructing a Foreign Policy Myth,” Diplomatic History 44, no. 1 (2020): 1-22. Honorable Mention, Article Prize of the Diplomatic Studies Section of the International Studies Association (2020) doi: 10.1093/dh/dhz053.
“Personal and Political Emotions in the Mind of the Diplomat,” coauthored with Claire Yorke, Political Psychology 40, no. 6 (December 2019): 1235-1249. doi: 10.1111/pops.12628.
“Nixon, Kissinger, and Brezhnev,” Diplomatic History 42, no. 4 (2018): 548-551. doi: 10.1093/dh/dhy047.
“Harnessing Human Rights to the Olympic Games: Human Rights Watch and the 1993 ‘Stop-Beijing’ Campaign,” The Journal of Contemporary History 53, no. 2 (2018): 415-438. doi: 10.1177/0022009416667791.
“The Telephone and Its Uses in 1980s U.S. Activism,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 48, no. 4 (Spring 2018): 485-509. doi.org/10.1162/JINH_a_01196 • Winner, Charles DeBenedetti Article Prize, Peace History Society (2019) • Summarized in The Conversation (see below) • Featured in Melanie Tait, “If You Avoid Phone Calls, You’re Missing Out,” The Guardian, 14 October 2019, at www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/14/if-you-avoid-phone-calls- youre-missing-out-heres-why
“Political Protection: The International Olympic Committee’s UN Diplomacy in the 1980s,” International Journal of the History of Sport 34, no. 11 (2017): 1161-1178. doi.org/10/1080/09523367.2017.1402764.
“Die Spinne im Netz: Ideenpolitik im Kalten Krieg [The Diplomacy of Ideas in the Cold War],” Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 11, no. 4 (Winter 2017): 19-29.
“The Post-Traumatic Decade: New Histories of the 1970s,” coauthored with Jack Davies and Elliott Bannan, Australasian Journal of American Studies 33, no. 1 (July 2014): 1-17.
“Birth of a New Era: Teaching the 1970s,” Australasian Journal of American Studies 33, no. 1 (July 2014): 98-109.
“Senses and Emotions in the History of Sport,” Journal of Sport History 40, no. 1(Spring 2013): 401-17. • Reprinted in Sports History, vol. 1, edited by Wray Vramplew and Mark Dyreson (New York: Sage, 2016). • Translated in El rostro cambiante del deporte. Perspectivas historiográficas angloparlantes (1970-2010), edited by Pablo Scharagrodsky and Cesar R. Torres (Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2019).
“Henry Kissinger: The Emotional Statesman,” Diplomatic History 35, no. 4 (September 2011): 587-609. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.00968.x
“Congress, Kissinger, and the Origins of Human Rights Diplomacy,” Diplomatic History 34, no. 4 (November 2010): 823-51. doi.org./10.1111/j.1467-7709.2010.00897.x
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“The Body as a Political Space: Comparing Physical Education under Nazism and Stalinism,” German History 27 (2009): 395-413. doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghp033
“An African-American Worker in Stalin’s Soviet Union: Race and the Soviet Experiment in International Perspective,” The Historian 71, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 31-54.
“Spreading Peace, Democracy, and Coca-Cola: Sport and American Cultural Expansion in the 1930s,” Diplomatic History 28, no. 2 (April 2004): 165-96. doi.org/10.111/j.1467-7709.2004.00405.x
“Soviet Sport and Transnational Mass Culture in the 1930s,” The Journal of Contemporary History 38, no. 3 (July 2003): 413-34. Reprinted in Sports History, vol. 2, edited by Wray Vramplew and Mark Dyreson (New York: Sage, 2016).
Book Chapters
“Hierarchies of Rights,” in Cambridge History of Rights, vol. 4, edited by Samuel Moyn and Meredith Terretta (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), commissioned.
“Sport and Emotion,” in The Routledge Companion to Sport History, edited by Murray Phillips, Douglas Booth, and Carly Adams (New York: Routledge), forthcoming 2021.
“Human Rights,” in Cambridge History of America in the World, Vol. 4: 1945 to the Present, edited by Max Paul Friedman, David Engerman, and Melani McAlister (New York: Cambridge University Press), forthcoming 2021.
“Human Rights Watch Takes on China, 1991-1996,” coauthored with Amy Hodgson, in Human Rights in the 1990s, edited by Jan Eckel and Daniel Stahl, submitted.
“The End of the Vietnam War and the Rise of Human Rights,” in Decolonization, Self- Determination, and the Birth of Global Human Rights Politics, edited by A. Dirk Moses, Marco Duranti, and Roland Burke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 360-374.
“The Global Economy: Aligning Reforms with Reality,” coauthor with Til Schuermann, in Fourteen Points for the 21st Century: A Renewed Appeal for Cooperative Internationalism, edited by Richard Immerman and Jeffrey Engel (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2020), 197-217.
“The Ideals of International Sport,” in The Ideals of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights, edited by Barbara J. Keys (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 1-20.
“Reframing Human Rights: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Olympic Games,” in The Ideals of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights, edited by Barbara J. Keys (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 109-135.
“The Future of International Sport,” coauthor with Roland Burke, in The Ideals of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights, edited by Barbara J. Keys (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 218-226.
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“Nonstate Actors,” in Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, 3d ed., edited by Frank Costigliola and Michael Hogan (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 119-34.
“’Something to Boast About’: Western Enthusiasm for Carter’s Human Rights Diplomacy,” in Reasserting America in the 1970s: U.S. Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America's Image Abroad, edited by Hallvard Hottaker, Giles Scott-Smith, and David Snyder (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), 229-244.
“Emotions in Intercultural Relations,” in Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization, edited by Robert David Johnson (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 212-220.
“Human Rights,” coauthor with Roland Burke, in The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War, edited by Richard H. Immerman and Petra Goedde (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 486-502.
“Anti-Torture Politics: Amnesty International, the Greek Junta, and the Origins of the U.S. Human Rights Boom,” in The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, edited by Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde and William I. Hitchcock (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 201-22.
“The Early Cold War Olympics: Political, Economic, and Human Rights Dimensions, 1952-1960,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies, edited by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj and Stephen Wagg (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 72-87.
“The 1960 Rome Summer Olympics: Birth of a New World?” in Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport, edited by Stephen Wagg (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 287-303.
“International Relations,” in Routledge Companion to Sports History, edited by S. W. Pope and John Nauright (New York: Routledge, 2010), 248-267.
“The International Olympic Committee and Global Culture during the Cold War,” in Les relations culturelles internationales au XXe siècle: De la diplomatie culturelle à l'acculturation, edited Anne Dulphy, Robert Frank, Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci, and Pascal Ory (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2010), 291-298.
“The Soviet Union, Cultural Exchange, and the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games,” in Sport zwischen Ost und West. Beiträge zur Sportgeschichte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Arié Malz, Stefan Rohdewald, and Stefan Wiederkehr (Osnabrück: Fibre, 2007), 131-146. ISBN 3-938400-15-3.
“The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games and the Postwar International Order,” in 1956: European and Global Perspectives, edited by Carole Fink, Frank Hadler, and Tomasz Schramm (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2006), 293-307. ISBN 3-937-20956-5.
“The Internationalization of Sport, 1890-1939,” in The Cultural Turn: Essays in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations, edited by Frank A. Ninkovich and Liping Bu (Chicago: Imprint Publications, 2001), 201-220. ISBN 1879176378.
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Book Chapter for Edited Volume that Never Appeared
“Sport Diplomacy,” coauthored with Xu Guoqi, for a proposed “The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Foreign Relations,” edited by Robert David Johnson (New York: Oxford University Press), submitted 2015.
Edited Journal Issue
Special issue on America in the 1970s, Australasian Journal of American Studies 33, July 2014.
Review Essay
“The Kissinger Wars,” in The American Historian 10 (November 2016): 16-22; reprinted in “Process: A Blog for American History,” at www.processhistory.org/the-kissinger-wars/.
Book Reviews
“Is This a Great American Realignment?” review of Why We Are Polarized, by Ezra Klein (Profile Books, 2020), in Inside Story, 22 July 2020, at https://insidestory.org.au/is-this- a-great-american-realignment/.
“How the Helsinki Accords Breached the Iron Curtain,” review of The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War, by Michael Cotey Morgan (Princeton University Press, 2018), in Diplomatic History 44, no. 2 (2020): 365-67.
“From Glasnost’ to Oblivion: Gorbachev and the End of the USSR,” review of Gorbachev: His Life and Times, by William Taubman (Simon & Schuster, 2017), in Australian Book Review no. 400 (April 2018): 25-26.
“’What We Need Is Some Meanness’: The Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party,” review of Playing with Fire: The 1968 Presidential Election and the Transformation of American Politics, by Lawrence O’Donnell (Penguin, 2018), in Australian Book Review no. 399 (March 2018): 13-14.
“The Bills Are Still Coming: Global Reverberations of the Cold War,” review of The Cold War: A World History, by Odd Arne Westad (Allen Lane, 2017), in Australian Book Review no. 398 (January/February 2018): 10-11.
Review of Trust, but Verify: The Politics of Uncertainty and the Transformation of the Cold War Order, 1969-1991, eds. Martin Klimke, Reinhild Kreis, and Christian E. Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2016), in Journal of American History 104 (March 2018): 1074-75.
Review of A Tremendous Thing: Friendship from The Iliad to the Internet, by Gregory Jusdanis (Cornell University Press, 2014), in Canadian Journal of History 52, 3 (2017): 645-46.
“The Newest Idealism: Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy,” review of Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse by Joe Renouard (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), in Lawfare, April 19, 2017, at lawfareblog.com/newest- idealism-human-rights-us-foreign-policy.
“The League of Nations and the Internationalization of Imperialism,” review of Susan Pedersen, The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2015), in Diplomatic History 40, no. 3 (June 2016): 559-561.
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Review of Todd Hall, Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage (Cornell University Press, 2015), in Journal of American History 103, no. 2 (September 2016): 532.
Review of William Michael Schmidli, The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy toward Argentina (Cornell University Press, 2013) in American Historical Review 119 (June 2014): 928-29.
Review of Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, ed., Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2011), in European History Quarterly 43, no. 2 (2013): 366-367.
Review of Susan Brownell, ed., The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), in Journal of American Ethnic History 30 (Summer 2011): 107-8.
Review of Lewis A. Erenberg, The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling (Oxford University Press, 2006), in Journal of American History (June 2009): 116.
Review of Jeremi Suri, Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Harvard University Press, 2007), on H-Diplo, April 2008, at www.h-net.org/~diplo/00- _roundtables_pre2009.htm
Review of Kenneth Osgood, Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad (University Press of Kansas, 2006), in Canadian Journal of History, 43, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2008).
Review of Thomas W. Zeiler, Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of American Empire (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), in Pacific Historical Review 77, no. 4 (November 2008): 683-4.
Review of Onward to the Olympics: Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games, eds. Gerald P. Schaus and Stephen R. Wenn (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2007), in Sport History Review (2008).
Review of David Engerman, Modernization from the Other Shore (Harvard University Press, 2003), Canadian Journal of History 40, no. 1 (April 2005): 137-8.
Review of Ella E. Schneider Hilton, Displaced Person: A Girl’s Life in Russia, Germany, and America (Louisiana State University, 2004), Russian History 31, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 360-1.
Review of Alexander Dallin and F. I. Firsov, eds., Dimitrov and Stalin, 1934-1943: Letters from the Soviet Archives (Yale University Press, 2000), H-Russia, September 2000.
Review of Walter LaFeber, Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism (W. W. Norton, 1999), H-Diplo, January 2000.
Review of Daniela Spenser, The Impossible Triangle: Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s (Duke University Press, 1999), in Russian Review 26, 2 (1999): 227-28.
Review of Alexander Nekrich, Pariahs, Partners, Predators: Soviet-German Relations, 1917-1941 (Columbia University Press, 1997), H-Russia, April 1998.
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Review of Vojtech Mastny, The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years (Oxford University Press, 1996), in Harvard Ukrainian Studies 21 (1997): 227-28.
Review of Susan K. Cahn, Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in 20th-Century Women's Sport (Harvard University Press, 1994), in Journal of Popular Culture 32 (1999): 148-49.
Op-Eds, Newsletter Articles, Encyclopedia Entries, and Other
“World Politics Explainer: The Twin Tower Bombings (9/11),” 4 October 2018, at theconversation.com/world-politics-explainer-the-twin-tower-bombings-9-11-101443
“How Landline Phones Made Us Happy and Connected,” The Conversation, 2 March 2018, at theconversation.com/how-landline-phones-made-us-happy-and-connected-92662; republished at: • ABC News at www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-05/landlines-vs-mobile-phones-were-we-wrong-to- give-up-land-line/9508500 • agora-dialogue.com/2018/03/05/how-landline-phones-made-us-happy-and-connected/ • startsat60.com/tech/everyday-tech/why-losing-the-landline-has-cost-us-our-sense-of-community
“Will the Winter Olympics Ease Tensions on the Korean Peninsula?” 9 February 2018, coauthored with Nicholas Langdon, University of Melbourne Pursuit, at pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/will-the-winter-olympics-ease-tensions-on-the-korean-peninsula.
“Could Personal Insults Lead to War?” 7 December 2017, coauthored with Nicholas Langdon, University of Melbourne Pursuit, at pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/could-personal- insults-trigger-war.
“Burn Down the Place,” 11 November 2016, on ABC Religion & Ethics, at www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2016/11/11/4573295.htm.
“Will Trumpism Lose the Electoral Battle, but Win the Political War? The Lesson of Barry Goldwater,” 1 November 2016, on ABC Religion & Ethics, at www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2016/11/01/4566985.htm.
“Trump vs. Clinton: Our Experts Analyse the Second Debate,” 10 October 2016, University of Melbourne Election Watch, at electionwatch.unimelb.edu.au/articles/trump-vs- clinton-our-experts-analyse-the-second-debate/_recache and Pursuit at pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/debate-2-all-about-insults-not-issues.
“Why the Spectacle of the Olympics Will Continue Despite Rio’s Disappointments,” The Conversation, 24 August 2016, at theconversation.com/why-the-spectacle-of-the-olympics-will- go-on-despite-rios-disappointments-64117.
“The 1972 Sino-American Rapprochement and the Role of Personal Diplomacy in Transforming the Cold War,” in Agora: The Journal of the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria 51, no. 2 (June 2016): 32-36.
“Human Rights According to Whom?” Insights on Law and Society (American Bar Association) 16, no. 3 (Spring 2016): 19.
“Human Rights Organisations and the Problem of ‘Bad Guys,’” ABC Religion and Ethics, April 2016, at www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2016/04/13/4442322.htm.
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Entry in “The Books We Read,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 46, no. 3 (January 2016): 40. “The Entangled Histories of the Olympic Games and Human Rights,” coauthored with Roland Burke and Guoqi Xu, Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 46, no. 3 (September 2015).
“Sport and American Empire,” Introduction to Roundtable on Scott Laderman’s Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing, in Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 46, no. 1 (April 2015): 6-7.
“Olympic Games and Politics,” in The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History, ed. Spencer C. Tucker (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008).
“Sport and International Relations: A Research Guide,” Newsletter of the Society for Historians of Foreign Relations, vol. 33, no. 1 (March 2002): 6-14.
“Arthur Koestler.” In Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia (Routledge/Garland, 2001).
“Peace through Sport?” Editorial distributed by the History News Service; published in the Philadelphia Inquirer and eleven other newspapers, September 2000.
“James Jesus Angleton” and “Merle Fainsod.” In American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (Oxford University Press, 1999).
“Russian Serfdom.” In The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, 2 vols., edited by Junius P. Rodrigues (ABC-Clio, 1997).
CONFERENCES CONVENED ______
Convenor, Symposium on “Human Rights at the Olympic Games,” University of Melbourne, 29 November 2014
Co-convenor, with Professor Jessica Gienow-Hecht (Freie Universität Berlin), Conference on “Emotions in International History,” University of Melbourne, 15-17 December 2014
RESEARCH GRANTS, PRIZES, AND AWARDS ______
Honours
Distinguished Scholar Award, Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research, 2020 Fellow (Elected), Royal Historical Society (UK), 2019- Phi Beta Kappa, 1987
Prizes
Stuart Bernath Lecture Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2010 (“recognizes and encourages excellence in teaching and research in the field of foreign relations by younger scholars”) Junior Scholar Prize, Committee for European Sports Historians, 1999 (best paper, 1 million lira)
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Major Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
Lead Chief Investigator, Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP170100291, 2017- 2021, “Moral Claims in International Sports Events and the Ethics of World Order,” with co- Chief Investigator Roland Burke and Partner Investigator Xu Guoqi (A$159,000) Chief Investigator, Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP110100424, 2011-2014, “Making Torture Unthinkable: The International Campaign Against Torture, 1967-1984” (A$170,000) Research Grant, United States Studies Centre, Sydney, 2009 (A$10,000) Postdoctoral Research Scholarship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Kennan Institute, 2003 Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 2000-2001 Whiting Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2000-2001 (declined) International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Individual Advanced Research Grant, 1998-9 (for research in Moscow) Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 1989-1994
University Grants and Awards
Faculty of Arts Internal Grant Scheme (A$6,200) 2019 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion Visiting Scholar Grant ($A3,000) 2018 Faculty of Arts Internal Grant Scheme (A$3,000) 2018 University Learning and Teaching Initiatives Grant on “Teaching History with Role-Play Games” ($20,000), lead CI with Dr Jenny Spinks, Dr Una McIlvenna, Dr James Bradley, Dr Julie Fedor, and A/Prof. Kate McGregor 2017 Faculty of Arts Internal Grant Scheme (A$3,000) 2017 Faculty of Arts Research Grant (A$5,000) 2016 Faculty of Arts Publication Grant ($2,000) 2016 Faculty of Arts Special Studies Long 2016 Faculty of Arts Special Studies Short (A$4,000) 2016 Woodward Medal for Humanities and Social Sciences 2015 Faculty of Arts Conference Grant and University of Melbourne node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion Conference Grant, for conference on “Emotions in International History,” ($25,000) 2014 Faculty of Arts Special Studies Short Grant 2013 Faculty of Arts Publication Grant 2012 Vanderbilt University-Melbourne University Partnership Grant ($12,000) (with Katherine McGregor, Stephen Wheatcroft, and Vanderbilt Professor Tom Schwartz) 2012 Faculty of Arts Special Studies Long Grant 2012 Faculty of Arts Special Studies Short Grant 2012 Faculty of Arts Special Studies Short Grant 2010 Faculty of Arts Special Studies Long Grant 2009 Career Interruptions Award, University of Melbourne (A$14,000) 2008 University Learning and Teaching Initiatives Grant (with Alison Duxbury and John Tobin in the Law School) 2008 Special Studies Short (A$4,000) 2008 Early Career Researcher Award, University of Melbourne (A$17,500) 2007 Faculty of Arts Publication Grant 2006 Faculty of Arts Seeding Grant, University of Melbourne (A$4,000) 2006
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Research and Creative Activity Award, California State University, Sacramento (summer salary, reduced teaching, research funds) 2005, 2006 Center for European Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Harvard University (declined) 2000
PUBLIC COMMENTARY ______
Report “COVID-19 and the Foreign Policy Perceptions of US Public and Elites,” Instituto Affari Internazionali, IAI Papers 20|36 (November 2020), ISBN 978-88-9368-158-2, at https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/covid-19-and-foreign-policy-perceptions-us-public-and- elites.
Podcasts: Rear Vision with Keri Phillips, ABC Radio National, 29 August 2019 Australian Institute of International Affairs (Victoria), Dyason House Podcast with Cameron Christie, November 2018, soundcloud.com/dyasonhouse/s2-9-a-history-of-human-rights- and-sports-diplomacy-with-barbara-keys Rear Vision with Antony Funnell, “Reassessing Human Rights,” ABC Radio National, 21 October 2018, also broadcast on Radio Australia and CBC (Canada); at www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/reassessing-the-narrative-of-universal- human-rights/10369586 The Conversation, “Trust Me, I’m an Expert,” on sports diplomacy, 2 July 2018 theconversation.com/trust-me-im-an-expert-what-is-sport-worth-98619
Interviews about the landline phone: Quoted extensively in Melanie Tait, “If you avoid phone calls, you’re missing out,” Guardian, 14 October 2019, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/14/if-you-avoid-phone-calls- youre-missing-out-heres-why ABC New South Wales Mornings Show with Kia Handley, 6 September 2019 Quoted extensively in Isabelle Lane, “The Decline of the Landline Telephone,” The New Daily, 3 September 2019, at thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2019/09/03/landline-phones-australia/ Myf Warhurst, ABC Radio National, 26 June 2018, at www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/myf- warhurst/myf-warhurst/9888228 Weekend Wakeup, Radio 6PR, Perth, with Darren de Mello and Sue McDougall, 18 March 2018 Podcast, “The Talking Point” with Rod Quinn on ABC Overnights, 17 March 2018, available on iTunes and at www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/overnights/hold-the-phone-how-the- telephone-changed-the-world/9558608 ABC Radio Perth with Michelle White, 11 March 2018 ABC Radio Breakfast Melbourne with Sami Shah and Jacinta Parsons, 7 March 2018 ABC South East (radio) with Simon Lauder, 6 March 2018 “Talking Lifestyle” (NSW) with Tim Webster and Suzy Yates, 6 March 2018 at omny.fm/shows/home-and-holiday/were-we-happier-when-only-landlines-existed ABC Radio Statewide Drive (NSW) with Fiona Wyllie, 5 March 2018 ABC Radio Adelaide with Jules Schiller, 5 March 2018 ABC Radio Drive Sydney with Richard Glover, 5 March 2018 “Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan,” Radio New Zealand, 5 March 2018 at www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018634732/homage-to-the- landline-phone
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Other topics: Interview, Georgia Martin on SYN FM (90.7) “Panorama,” on impeachment, 8 October 2019 Interview, “Fighting for the Historical Record in the Age of Trump,” University of Melbourne SHAPS Forum, August 2019, blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/08/26/fighting-for- the-historical-record-in-the-age-of-trump/ Interview on Trump-Kim summit, SYN FM (90.7), 28 February 2019 Interview, “Is Our Democracy Broken?” by Shaun Carney, Pursuit, 3 October 2018, at pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/is-our-democracy-broken Interview on Pulse Radio (Geelong) with Mitchell Dye, about Trump, 10 September 2018 Interview on ABC Radio News with Mandy Presland about Cuba, 19 April 2018 www.abc.net.au/newsradio/content/s4832362.htm Interview on “Grill Team,” Triple M Radio (Sydney), about Putin, 29 March 2018 Quoted in Kelsey Munro, “Why Is Australia Getting Involved in the UK-Russia Spy Fallout?” SBS News, 28 March 2018, at www.sbs.com.au/news/why-is-australia-getting-involved-in- the-uk-russia-spy-fallout?cid=newsapp:socialshare:email Quoted in Mark Kenny, “Australia Measures Its First Response to Russia, But Tensions Are Set to Escalate,” Sydney Morning Herald, 27 March 2018, at www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/russia-tensions-to-escalate-as-australia-measures-its-first- response-20180327-p4z6fx.html Interview with Paul Culliver, ABC Radio South Australia, about espionage, 27 March 2018 Interview with Ros Childs on ABC News (TV) about Putin’s election, 19 March 2018 Interview with Tom Tilley on The Hack, Triple J, ABC radio, on Olympics, 26 February 2018 Interview on Geelong Radio 97.4 on Olympics, 12 February 2018 Interview on ABC Radio (Perth) with Gillian O’Shaunessey on Olympics, 12 February 2018 Interview on ABC “The World” TV on “Olympic diplomacy,” 5 February 2018 Interview for a documentary film on “The 101 Events That Shaped the 20th Century,” WildBear Entertainment, dir. Mike Kenneally, interviewed on 20 September 2017, film released 2018 on History Channel Interview on Studio10 TV about the U.S. election, 9 November 2016 Interview on ABC The Minefield with Scott Stephens and Waleed Aly on the U.S. presidential election, 3 November 2016 Interview on The University of Melbourne’s “The Policy Shop” podcast on “The U.S. Election: A Policy-Free Zone?” at omny.fm/shows/the-policy-shop/the-us-election2016-a-policy- free-zone?in_playlist=podcast, October 2016; featured in Pursuit at pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-us-election-a-policy-free-zone Interview on ABC TV “The World” about the Olympic Games, 16 August 2016 Interview on ABC RN Drive radio with Patricia Karvelas about Olympics, 9 August 2016 Interview on 774 ABC radio about the Rio Olympic Games, 9 August 2016 Interview on ABC The Minefield with Scott Stephens and Waleed Aly on human rights, 11 February 2016 Interview on ABC News 24 TV, about 2022 Olympic Games host selection, 31 July 2015 Interview on ABC Drive with Phil McGlue, Perth, about U.S.-Cuban relations, 21 July 2015 Interview on ABC Morning Show with Phil Staley, Cairns, about Thanksgiving, 27 Nov. 2014 Interview on ABC NewsRadio about Ferguson unrest, 28 August 2014 Panel discussion, “A New Cold War?” ABC Radio National Sunday Extra with Jonathan Green, 27 July 2014 Interview on SBS World News (TV) about MH17 shootdown, 19 July 2014 Interview on SBS World News (TV) about Eduard Shevardnadze, 8 July 2014 Interview on SBS Radio about Eduard Shevardnadze, 8 July 2024 Interview on ABC News 24 about Ukrainian situation, 14 April 2014 Interview for “Revival of Cold War Rhetoric,” hijacked.com, 27 March 2014 Interview about Paralympic boycott, ABC “The World Today,” 6 March 2014 Interview with Kim Landers, “Afternoon Live,” about Olympic truce, ABC24, 3 March 2014
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Interview with Eoin Cameron on the Breakfast Show, ABC News Radio, 7 February 2014 Interview with Kim Landers, “Afternoon Live,” about JFK, ABC24, 22 November 2013 Interview on Sydney radio 2SM about 50th anniversary of JFK's death, 21 November 2013 Interview on “The Locker Room,” Joy 94.9 about Sochi Olympic Games, September 2013 Comment on U.S.-Cuban relations, ABC NewsHour, August 2008 Comment on 50th anniversary of Sputnik, SBS WorldNews Australia, October 2007 Interview with Sage Welch, SYN FM (90.7), about Guantanamo Naval Base April 2007 Consultant for Abamedia’s documentary film series The Red Files, aired on PBS in Sept.-Oct. 1999 (researched and wrote essays for web site and companion book)
KEYNOTE AND AWARD ADDRESSES ______
Keynote Address, Congress of the European Committee for Sport History, Lisbon, September 2020 (canceled due to Covid-19)
Keynote Address, Conference of the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research, California State University, Fullerton, March 2020 (canceled due to Covid-19)
Keynote Address, “Torture in Law and Public Opinion before the Greek Case,” Conference on “The ‘Greek Case’ in the Council of Europe: A Game Changer for International Relations and Human Rights?” Netherlands Institute and Danish Institute, Athens, 12-14 December 2019
Keynote Address, “’One Little Country Obsessed with Its Suffering’: How Kissinger’s Feelings about Vietnam Shaped the Peace Negotiations,” Conference on “The Vietnam War in the Pacific World,” Macquarie University, August 2019
Presidential Address, “How International Relations become Personal: Diplomats as Friends, Enemies, and Everything in Between,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2019
Keynote Address, “Emotional Topographies of Decolonization,” Conference on “Connected Histories: Decolonization and the 20th Century,” Yale University, April 2019
Keynote Address, “Friendship in Diplomacy: Henry Kissinger’s Personal Relationships,” Transatlantic Studies Association, Plymouth, UK, July 2016
Keynote Address, “The Olympic Games and Human Rights,” International Symposium for Olympic Research, International Centre for Olympic Studies, London, Ontario, October 2012
Keynote Address, “Emotions, Senses, and the History of Sport,” Australian Society for Sport History, Kingscliff, NSW, July 2011
Bernath Lecture Luncheon Address, “Henry Kissinger: The Emotional Statesman,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Luncheon, Organization of American Historians, Houston, March 2011
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC LECTURES/PANELS ______
“The Ideals of Global Sport,” Presentation to RERIS (Réseaux d'études des relations internationales sportives), 22 September 2020
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Panelist (Webinar), National History Center Annual Wm. Roger Louis Lecture on Thomas Schwartz, Henry Kissinger and American Power, 10 September 2020, www.wilsoncenter.org/event/henry-kissinger-and-american-power-political-biography
“’Tools for Truth’: Human Rights NGOs and Typewriters, Telephones, and Computers,” Conference of “Human Rights and Technological Change,” Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Cologne, Germany, September 2019 (funded)
“Human Rights Watch vs. China, 1989-1996,” Conference on “Putting Human Rights to the Test: Claims, Interventions, and Contestations since 1990,” Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Cologne, Germany, May 2019 (funded)
“Historicising Amnesty International: Seeing and Not Seeing Suffering in the Early 1960s,” La Trobe University, May 2019
Panelist, “The Legacy of 1968,” Social Sciences Week, University of Melbourne, September 2018 “Torture and Human Rights since 1945,” Global History Seminar, UC Berkeley, April 2018
“Australia, the World, and the 1956 Olympic Games,” Lyceum Club, Melbourne, February 2018
“Human Rights at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games,” Conference on “Golden Games: Sport and Diplomacy in East Asia,” National University of Singapore, December 2017 (funded)
“Internationalism in the Culture versus Power Debate,” Workshop on “Making a Case for Internationalism,” Freie Universität Berlin, June 2017 (funded)
“Anti-Torture Campaigns since 1945,” Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, May 2017 (funded)
“Methods and Sources for the Study of Emotions in International Relations: Henry Kissinger's Love Affair with Zhou Enlai as a Case Study,” Oberseminar of the Chair of Modern History, University of Freiburg, May 2017 (funded)
“The Trump Card: Rage, Race, and the Right,” Panel Discussion (with Senator Janet Rice, Ruby Hamad, and Clementine Ford), Sponsored by YWCA Victoria, State Library of Victoria, December 2016
“1964: Barry Goldwater and the Conservative Challenge to the Republican Party,” University of Melbourne Masterclass on “Pivotal Elections in American Politics, from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump,” October 2016
“The Dangers of Globalization: Insulating against Global Financial Crises,” coauthor with Til Schuermann, Conference on “14 Points for the 21st Century,” Taos, NM, September 2016 (funded)
“We Have Emotions, Too: Historians’ Emotions and Moral Judgments in Human Rights History,” Bloxham Symposium on Ethics/Morality in History, Monash University, July 2016
“Why Do We Care about Torture? Politics, Pornography, and Morality in the Rise of Human Rights in the 1970s,” Colloquium on Comparative and Transnational History, Freie Universität Berlin, May 2016 (funded)
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“A Diplomatic Love Affair: Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai,” Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions, Berlin, April 2016
“Reflections on New Histories of Internationalism,” Laureate Program Early Career Workshop on “History, Critique, and International Law,” Melbourne Law School, March 2016
“Working the Phones: Communications Technologies, Emotions, and Central America Activism,” University of Sydney American Cultures Workshop, Sydney, March 2016 (funded)
“New York City in the Warhol Years,” National Gallery of Victoria, 27 February 2016 (paid) “The United States as an Imperial Power,” History Department, Nanjing University, October 2015 (funded)
Launcher, Melbourne Historical Journal, December 2014
Panelist, Amnesty International Victoria Panel Discussion and Screening of Beneath the Blindfold, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, November 2014
“Reclaiming American Virtue: Liberal and Conservative Visions of Human Rights in the 1970s,” Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Temple University, November 2014 (funded)
“Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s,” Charles Griffin Memorial Lecture, Vassar College, October 2014 (funded)
“The Olympic Games and Human Rights in Asia,” International Sports Relations Foundation Forum, Seoul, Korea, September 2014 (funded)
“Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s,” Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen, May 2014 (funded)
Panelist, “American Ambivalence Toward the International,” American History Seminar, University of Melbourne, May 2014
“Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s,” The Human Rights Program and the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, University of Chicago, February 2014 (funded)
Panelist on public seminar on “Digital Diplomacy,” Fritt Ord, Norwegian Board of Technology, Oslo, November 2013 (funded)
“’Something to Boast About’: Western Enthusiasm for Carter's Human Rights Diplomacy,” Conference on "Selling America in an Age of Uncertainty: U.S. Public Diplomacy in the New International Order, 1965-1980,” Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway, November 2013 (funded)
“Making Human Rights ‘Sexy’: Amnesty International's Campaign against Torture, 1968-1975,” Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, Nov. 2012 (funded)
“Making Torture Sexy: International Human Rights Activism in the 1970s,” Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 2012
Lecturer, 52nd International Session for Young Participants, International Olympic Academy, Olympia, Greece, June 2012 (funded)
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“Kissinger’s Emotional Diplomacy,” Lyceum Club, Melbourne, June 2011
“Amnesty International, Torture, and the Origins of the Human Rights ‘Boom’ in the United States, 1967-1973,” United States Studies Centre, Sydney, November 2010 (funded)
“The Forgotten Vietnam Origins of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy,” Conference on “Human Rights and Imperialism,” University of Sydney, August 2012 (funded)
“Amnesty International and the Campaign against Torture, 1972-1974: A Critique,” Workshop on “A New Global Morality? Human Rights in the 1970s,” Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study (FRIAS), Freiburg, Germany, June 2010 (funded)
“The Internationalization of Sport,” Workshop on “Sport in Europe,” Pembroke College, Cambridge University, July 2009 (funded)
Panelist, “Obama: How Much Change?” for Panel on “American Perspectives: Hope Springs Eternal? Festival of Ideas,” University of Melbourne, June 2009
“Making Torture as Unthinkable as Slavery: Successes and Failures of the International Campaign against Torture in the 1970s,” Foreign Policy Seminar, University of Connecticut, January 2009 (funded)
“Making Torture Unacceptable in the 1970s,” Human Rights Workshop, Temple University, Philadelphia, December 2008 (funded)
“The Internationalization of Sport: Intellectual and Emotional Foundations,” Conference on Sport History, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., October 2008 (funded)
Panelist, “Cultural Difference in Sport,” University of Melbourne, September 2008
Public Lecture, “The Global Power of the Olympic Games: Putting the Beijing Games into Perspective,” Australian Institute for International Affairs (Victoria), October 2007
“The International Olympic Committee and ‘Global Culture’ during the Cold War,” Colloque: “Les relations culturelles internationals au vingtième siècle,” Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, May 2006 (funded)
“Decolonization, Superpower Rivalry, and the 1956 Olympic Games,” Forum Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa, “Sport zwischen Ost und West: Interdisziplinäre Tagung zur Sportgeschichte,” University of Zürich, October 2005 (funded)
“The Soviet Union, Global Culture, and the 1956 Olympic Games,” Conference on Sport and Globalization, University of California, San Diego, March 2005 (funded)
“Americanizing the Olympics: Commercialism, Journalism, and Global Politics at the 1932 Los Angeles Games,” invited speaker, Chicago Seminar on Sport and Culture, Newberry Library, Chicago, April 2004
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CONFERENCE AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS ______
“Extended Historical Role-Play Games: Why Students Love Them,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), June 2018
“Beyond Good and Evil: New Ways of Thinking about Henry Kissinger,” Conference of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), Sacramento, April 2018
“The Emotional Roots of Henry Kissinger’s Romantic Fascination with China,” Conference of the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH), Umea, Sweden, June 2017
Roundtable Participant and Organizer, “Twenty Years of ‘Unceasing Pressure’: Frank Costigliola and the Study of U.S. Foreign Relations,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Arlington, June 2017 • broadcast on C-SPAN, July 22, 2017, at www.cspan.org/video/?430393-2/emotion-foreign-policy
Commentator, Panel on “The Gift of Giving? Aid and Emotion in U.S. Foreign Relations,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Arlington, June 2017
“Friendship and International Relations: Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai,” American Historical Association (AHA), Denver, January 2017
“A Diplomatic Love Affair: Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai,” History Brown Bag Seminar, University of Melbourne, October 2016
Commentator, Panel on “Foreign Policy Dilemmas of the Ford-Carter Years,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), San Diego, June 2016
“Human Rights Organisations and the Olympic Games, 1981-2000,” Conference on “Sport and Diplomacy,” SOAS, University of London, July 2015
“Mobilizing Technologies in Human Rights Activism in the Reagan Years: Emotions, Senses, and Communication Strategies,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Arlington, VA, June 2015
Chair, Roundtable on “Small States, Non-State Actors, and Agency in International History,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Arlington, VA, June 2015
“The Vietnam War and the Rise of Human Rights in the United States,” Australian Historical Association, Brisbane, July 2014
Commentator, Panel on “Decolonization and Nonstate Actors,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Lexington, KY, June 2014
“’Something to Boast About’: Western Reaction to Carter’s Human Rights Policy,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Lexington, KY, June 2014
“Historicizing Human Rights,” Human Rights Tertiary Teachers’ Workshop, University of Melbourne Law School, February 2014
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“Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy,” class lecture and discussion, University of Chicago, February 2014
Commentator, Panel on “Human Rights in the 1960s,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Arlington, Virginia, June 2013
“The Vietnam War, Liberal Guilt, and the Rise of Human Rights,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Arlington, Virginia, June 2013
Chair and Commentator, Panel on “Body/Nation: The Global Realms of U.S. Body Politics, Panel II: Bodies as National Metaphors,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Alexandria, June 2011
“Amnesty International, Torture, and the Human Rights Boom of the 1970s,” Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Madison, Wisconsin, June 2010
Roundtable Panelist, “The Expanding Diplo-Universe and the 'Born Digital' Revolution: Fundamental Issues of Scope and Documentation,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Madison, Wisconsin, June 2010
“Amnesty International, Torture, and the Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s,” Symposium on “New Histories of Human Rights,” La Trobe University, November 2009
Commentator, Panel on “The United States in the World/The World in the United States,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Falls Church, VA, June 2009
“Why Did Torture Become Unacceptable in the 1970s? Algeria, Greece, and Brazil Compared,” Annual Conference of the American Historical Association (AHA), New York City, January 2009
“Obstructing Congress: An Inside Look at the Early Years of Human Rights at the State Department,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Columbus, OH, June 2008
“The Nixon Administration, Brazil, and the International Campaign against Torture,” Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Chantilly, VA, June 2007
“The New Imperialism? Culture and Politics at the 1956 Olympic Games,” Association Internationale d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Europe (AIHCE) Conference on “1956: Europe and the World” (ICHS), Sydney, Australia, July 2005
“Why Is American Sport ‘Democratic’? Defining Americanism at the Olympics from the 1930s to the 1950s,” American Historical Association (AHA), Seattle, January 2005
“Symbolic Distortions: The Nazi Appropriation of Classical Greek Symbols and the Invention of the Olympic Torch Relay,” ATINER Conference on European History, Athens, December 2004
“Hollywood Goes to the Olympics: Celluloid Stars and the Cult of Celebrity at the 1932 Los Angeles Games,” North American Society for Sport History (NASSH), Asilomar, CA, May 2004
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“The Origins of Cold War Sport Diplomacy: The U.S. Government and the Olympic Games, 1932-1956,” Organization of American Historians (OAH), Boston, March 2004
Commentator, Panel on “Women in the 20th Century,” All-UC Multi-Campus Research Unit Conference on World History, Los Angeles, December 2003
“Sport and American Cultural Expansion in the 1930s,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Athens, Georgia, June 2002
“Sport and Cultural Diplomacy in the 1930s,” Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Toronto, June 2000
“The Soviet Alternative to Olympism: The Red Sport International, 1921-1937,” North American Society for Sport History (NASSH), Banff, Canada, May 2000
“If Globalization Equals Americanization, Why Doesn’t the World Play American Sports?” Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, December 1999
“Soviet Soccer and Cultural Globalization, 1936-1941,” Conference of the Committee for European Sport Historians, Florence, Italy, December 1999
“Totalitarian Corporealities: Educating the Body under Nazism and Stalinism,” Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Boca Raton, FL, September 1998
“Soviet Culture in the International Arena: The Case of Workers’ Sports,” Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Seattle, WA, November 1997
“Fig Leaves and Olive Branches: The International Trappings of Soviet Sport, 1930-41,” Workshop on “Inventing the Soviet Union, 1917-1945,” Bloomington, IN, November 1997
M.A. AND PH.D. STUDENTS (PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR ONLY) ______
Emma Shortis, “Saving the Last Continent: Environmentalists, Celebrities, and States in the Campaign for a World Park Antarctica, 1978-1991” (Ph.D., 2019) Shane Cahill, “Visions of a Mutual Pacific Destiny: The Japan-Australia Society, 1896–1942” (Ph.D., 2019) Mia Martin Hobbs, “Nostalgia and the Warzone Home: American and Australian Veterans Return to Việt Nam, 1981–2016” (Ph.D., 2018) Alexander McPhee-Browne, “Evangelists for Freedom: Libertarian Populism and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Conservatism, 1930–1950” (M.A., 2018) Melanie Davis Brand, “Mind Games: The Johnson Administration, Intelligence, and the 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia” (M.A., 2016) Daniel Rule, “Justifying and Defending Redress for the Internment of Japanese Americans, 1970–1988” (M.A., 2016) Nerida Brooks, “The Ordinances of Heaven: Anti-Evolutionism and U.S. Conservatism, 1982– 1996” (Ph.D., 2015) Steven Ireland, “Australia and the PLO: The Whitlam Government and Australian Identity, 1972–1974” (M.A., 2012)
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Peter Russell, “Human Rights, Western Foreign Policy, and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia, 1989– 1999” (Ph.D., 2010) Ben Debney, “The Domestic Peril: The Radical Alien and the Rise of Corporate Americanism, 1912–1919” (M.A., 2010)
HONOURS THESES SUPERVISED (University of Melbourne) ______
Christine Latham, “Constructing the Disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt” (2019) Jack Armstrong, “Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Coup in Iran, 1953” (2018) Victoria Poppins, “The Role of the U.S. Press in the Bering Sea Dispute, 1890-1893” (2017) Rose Dryzek, “A Necessary Risk? The Politics of Nuclear Fallout in the United States, 1955- 1959” (2017) Brigid O’Farrell White, “The Kissinger-Rogers Rivalry and the Demise of Arab-Israeli Peace Efforts, 1969-1972” (2016) Clancy Dobbs, “Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Violence as Applied to the Tlatelolco Massacre in Mexico, 1968” (2016) Felicity Gent, “Establishing the Australian Embassy in Hanoi, 1973-1976” (2016) Isabella Borshoff, “’The Prize Beyond Our Reach’: How the Carter Administration Formulated a Human Rights Foreign Policy” (2015) Peter Davie, “How Did Americans React to the 1973 Oil Crisis?” (2015) Olivia Tasevski, “The Ford Administration Policy toward the Philippines and Indonesia” (2014) Grace Fuller, “Emotional Diplomacy: Kissinger and the Indo-Pakistani War” (2014) Jacqueline Pey Loh, “The Carter Paradox: Human Rights and the Cambodian Genocide” (2014) Samuel Watts, “Conservative Visions of Human Rights in the 1970s” (2014) Alex Midgley, “Freedom of Information in U.S. History” (2014) Michelle Bashta, “The Creation of Shuttle Diplomacy: How Henry Kissinger Initiated the Peace Process between Egypt and Israel in January 1974” (2013) Caitlin Roberts, “Degrees of Segregation: How the GI Bill Shaped the Educational Experiences of African American Veterans” (2011) Robin County-Black, “Vigilantism, Politics, Community, and the 1920s Ku Klux Klan” (2011) Bonne Keating, “'For Jobs and Freedom': The Black Press, Black Unions and Civil Rights, 1934- 1944” (2011) Tessa Midgley, “Shooting the Past: The Abu Ghraib Photos, Torture and U.S. Identity” (2010) Brendan Thomas-Noone, “'Wake Up America!' 9/11, Evangelical Cosmology and the Gathering of a Nation” (2010) Nerida Brooks, “American Participant: The American Spectator and Conservative Opposition to Bill Clinton” (2010) Alice Volkov, “Human Rights Interest Groups and United States Foreign Policy: The Case of Argentina, 1976-1980” (2010) Bryan Rush, “Father Coughlin, Gerald Smith, and Opposition to the New Deal” (2009) Elizabeth Clements, “Johnson's War on Poverty and the Ideology of Opportunity” (2009) Sarah Gory, “The Violent Trade of Writing: Horacio Verbitsky, Democratisation, and Human Rights in Argentina” (2008) Sarah Pilcher, “Human Rights NGOs and the Trial of Augusto Pinochet: A Global Campaign for Justice” (2008) Sarah Bowyer, “International Condemnation of the Pinochet Regime in Chile” (2008) Shane Horan, “The Longest Sought Prize: A History of the Clinton Administration and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty” (2008) Vicki Toong, “The Posthumous Cults of Eva Perón: Argentine Saint, Western Commodity” (2008) Rebecca Devitt, “The Kennedy Administration and the Congo Crisis, 1961-1963” (2008)
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Melanie Pose, “How the 'Other Within' Represents the 'Other Without': Western Women Travelers to Latin America in the 19th Century” (2007) Nick Laurie, “The Construction of the 'Cocaine Enemy' in the U.S. War on Drugs in Colombia, 1982-2001” (2007) Daniel White, “FDR's Sketch: The Idea of the Four Policemen and the Founding of the United Nations” (2006) Katherine Volich, “Degrees of Separation: The Cuban American National Foundation and Policymaking in the United States in the 1980s” (2006)
COURSES TAUGHT ______
At Durham University:
Undergraduate International Human Rights since 1945 Nixon, Kissinger, and U.S. Foreign Relations
At the University of Melbourne:
Undergraduate The United States and the World Making Sense of America: The U.S. since 1945 American History from JFK to Trump Rebels and Revolution in Latin America Human Rights and Global Justice (interdisciplinary team-taught)
Honours Cold War America America in the 1970s
M.A. International Relations since 1945 International History since 1648
At California State University Sacramento:
Undergraduate History of U.S. Foreign Relations History of the United States since 1877
Graduate Seminar on the Cold War Seminar on American Historiography
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES ______
Editor (Articles Co-Editor) Modern American History, 2019-
Editorial Board Activities
Editorial Board, “New Histories of Internationalism,” Bloomsbury Press
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Advisory Board, Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics (book series) Advisory Board, European Journal of American Studies, 2019- Editorial Board, Modern American History, 2016-2019 Editorial Board, Human Rights Quarterly, 2013- Editorial Board, Diplomatic History, 2009-2011 Member, Editorial Board, Australasia and the Pacific Region Issue, International Journal of the History of Sport, 2010-2011
Service to Professional Societies
President, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2019 (elected) Vice President, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2018 (elected) Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2017 (appointed) Nominating Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2014-2016 (elected) Stuart L. Bernath Article Prize Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2014-2016 (appointed) Membership Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2009-2011 Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2007-2011; co-author of the Committee’s 2008 Report Treasurer, Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association, 2006-2008
Other Professional Activities
Tenure and Promotion Evaluation External Evaluator for Tenure Committee, Dartmouth College External Assessor for Tenure Committee, Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies External Assessor for Tenure Committee, Indiana University External Adviser, Hiring Committee, Yale University External Reviewer, Promotions, Temple University External Assessor, Promotions, York University External Assessor, Promotions, Aston University
Research Higher Degree Examination Member, Dissertation Committee, University of Toronto, 2019 Member, Dissertation Committee, Hong Kong University, 2018-2019 Member, Dissertation Committee, University of Southern Denmark, 2016-2017 Member, Dissertation Jury, University of Antwerp, 2015 Member, Search Committee, Monash University, American History position, 2009 Examiner, Ph.D. dissertation, La Trobe University Examiner, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Queensland Examiner, M.A. thesis, University of Sydney Examiner, M.A. thesis, Monash University Examiner, Honours thesis, Australian Catholic University
Grant Application Review Peer Reviewer, Leverhulme Fellowships Peer Reviewer, Wellcome Trust Peer Reviewer, Excellence in Research Assessment, Australian Research Council, 2018 Assessor, Social Science Research Council (Singapore)
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Assessor, Australian Research Council, Discovery Projects, Discovery Early Career Research Awards, and Future Fellowships Assessor, Flanders Research Foundation (Belgium) Assessor, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS (Belgium)
Manuscript and Proposal Reviewer for:
Bloomsbury Press Cambridge University Press Cengage Cornell University Press Duke University Press Harvard University Press Oxford University Press Palgrave Routledge Rowman & Littlefield University of Illinois Press University of Pennsylvania Press Yale University Press American Historical Review Australasian Journal of American Studies Australian Journal of Politics and History Canadian Journal of History Canadian Slavonic Papers Contemporary European History Cold War History Diplomatic History Historical Journal Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development International History Review International Journal for the History of Sport International Security International Studies Review Journal of American History Journal of American-East Asian Relations Journal of Cold War Studies Journal of Contemporary History Journal of Global History Journal of Global Security Studies Journal of Sport History Journal of Women’s History Polity Journal
Department, School, Faculty, and University Service
Durham University: Director of Research, History Department, 2021 Member, Departmental Promotion and Progression Committee, 2021 Member, Department Selection Panel, Leverhulme Fellowships, 2021 Search Committee, European Transnational History, 2021 Search Committee, Atlantic History, 2021
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Presenter, “Using ‘Teacher Presence’ Software to Enhance Online Lectures and Seminars,” Digital Learning Group, January 2021 Blackboard Learn Ultra Steering Group (University-level), 2020-2021 “Taster lecture” for Open Days, History Department, 2020 Member, Online Teaching Support Group, History Department, 2020 Online and Distance Learning Advisory Group, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, 2020 Judge, Durham University History in Politics Society Debate, October 2020 Search Committee, 20th Century British History, 2020
University of Melbourne: Academic Integrity Committee, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, 2018-2019 Course Academic Progress Committee, Faculty of Arts, 2019 University Academic Progress Appeals Committee, 2019 History Representative, School Research Committee, 2019 Deputy Chair, School Research Training Committee, 2018 University Research Mentors Program, Faculty of Arts, 2018 Academic Misconduct Panels, SHAPS, 2018 Chair, Selection Committee, SHAPS Fellows Group Annual History Essay Prize, 2018 Search Committee, Economic History (Economics), 2018 Search Committee, Hansen Lecturer in the History of Asia, 2018 Chair, Course Unsatisfactory Progress Committee, Faculty of Arts, 2018 Grant Application Review Panel, Faculty of Arts, 2018 Course Unsatisfactory Progress Committee, Faculty of Arts, 2017 Academic Misconduct Panels, SHAPS, 2017 History Role-Play Pedagogy Coordinator, 2017 Chair, Research Committee, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, 2016 School Mentor (to a new junior colleague), 2015 Course Unsatisfactory Progress Committee, Faculty of Arts, 2015 Search Committee, Modern European History, 2015 Indigenous Employment Framework Working Group, Faculty of Arts, 2014 Graduate Studies Committee, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, 2014-2016 Honours Coordinator, History, 2013-2015 Academic Board, Faculty of Arts, 2012, 2015-2016 Academic Women in Leadership Program, University of Melbourne, 2011-2012 Course Unsatisfactory Progress Committee, Faculty of Arts, 2011 Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee, School of Historical Studies, 2010 Undergraduate Studies Committee, School of Historical Studies, 2010 Steering Committee Member, Human Rights Forum, University of Melbourne, 2008-9 Undergraduate Studies Committee, School of Historical Studies, 2008 Advisory Board Member, Contemporary Europe Research Centre, University of Melbourne, 2006-2009 Academic Programs Committee Member, History Department, University of Melbourne, 2006
California State University: Library Coordinator, History Department, CSUS, 2004-5 Chair, Undergraduate Scholarship Committee, History Department, CSUS, Spring 2004 Reviewer, Pedagogy Enhancement Awards, Center for Teaching, CSUS, Fall 2003
Pedagogy Workshops and Presentations Historical Role-Play Taster, Faculty of Arts Welcome, Orientation Week, University of Melbourne, February 2018 Organizer, Conference on “Extended Role-Play Exercises,” Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, November-December 2017
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Presenter, “Teaching with Extended Role-Play Games: Pros and Cons,” History Retreat, Monash University, November 2017 Presenter with Una McIlvenna, “Learning History through Historical Role-Play,” Open Day, University of Melbourne, August 2017 Organizer, “Role-Play Pedagogy Workshop,” School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, February 2017
Masterclass and Visiting Scholar Coordination Chair, Masterclass on “Leadership,” with Professor Jeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin, August 2014 Chair, Masterclass on “Political History,” with Professor Donald Critchlow, Arizona State University, August 2014 Chair, Masterclass on “The New International History,” with Professor Mark Bradley, University of Chicago, May 2014 Chair, Masterclass on “International History in Practice,” with Professor Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney, May 2013
Host of Miegunyah Fellows Professor Mel Leffler, University of Virginia (September 2016) Professor Richard Immerman, Temple University (March 2013)
Organizer and Host of Visiting Scholars and Speakers Robert McMahon, Ohio State University (emeritus) (November 2018) Víctor Fernández Soriano, Université Libre de Bruxelles (January-February 2018) Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley (September 2017) Jeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin (August 2014) Samuel Moyn, Harvard Law School (August 2014) Adrienne Edgar, University of California at Santa Barbara (March 2014) Petra Goedde, Temple University (August 2013) Andrew Isenberg, Temple University (August 2013) Samuel Moyn, Columbia University (August 2012) Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University (August 2012) Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut (August 2011) Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University (May 2011) Jürgen Martschukat, University of Erfurt (March 2011) Brad Simpson, Princeton University (July-August 2010) Erez Manela, Harvard University (August 2010) Beth Bailey, Temple University (April 2010) David Farber, Temple University (April 2010) Darius Rejali, Reed College (June 2009) Akira Iriye, Harvard University (July 2008) Matthew Connelly, Columbia University (August 2008) Michelle Mart, Penn State Berks (December 2002) Eva Sheppard Wolff, San Francisco State University (April 2004) Jacques Portes, University of Paris 8 (September 2004) Jules Tygiel, San Francisco State University (March 2005)
Research Networks Advisory Board, AHRC Project “Blowing the Whistle: The Hidden History of Whistleblowing and the Rise of the U.S. National Security State” Member, Centre for the Study of Internationalism, Birkbeck College, University of London
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High School Outreach Lectures, History Teachers Association of Victoria (World War I, Interwar Diplomacy, the Cold War, the End of the Cold War), 2009-2015 Lectures, Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy High School, Sydney, NSW, 2013 and 2014 Lecture, “Teaching World War I,” Sacramento City Teachers Association, 2004
OTHER ACTIVITIES ______
Standard Mental Health First Aid Accreditation, 2019 Guest Speaker (as “Sarah Palin”), Snifters Dinner, History Postgraduate Students Association, University of Melbourne, November 2008 Graduate Student Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1998-2001 Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1997-2000; co-chair of luncheon series, 1997-8 Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, 1997-2000 Graduate Writing Fellow, Derek Bok Teaching Center, Harvard University, 1996 Participant in Council for International Education Exchange (CIEE)’s Russian for Research Program, Leningrad State University, Summer 1991
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE ______
Archival research in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, United Kingdom, United States
FOREIGN LANGUAGES ______
Russian, French (good), German (reading knowledge) Spanish and Dutch (some reading knowledge) Mandarin (in progress)