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Curriculum Vitae Elizabeth Cobbs, Ph.D.

Education Ph.D., Stanford University, Department of History, 1988 Major Field: United States Minor Field: Latin America M.A., Stanford University, Department of History, 1984 B.A., University of California, San Diego, 1983 Summa Cum Laude with High Distinction in Literature

Current Position Melbern G. Glasscock Chair in American History, Texas A&M University (2015- present)

Book Prizes

2009 “Director’s Mention,” Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction (for Broken Promises) 2009 San Diego Book Award, “Best Historical Fiction” (for Broken Promises) 1993 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, SHAFR, for best first book on the history of U.S. foreign relations (for Rich Neighbor Policy) 1989 Allan Nevins Prize, Society of American Historians, for Best Dissertation on U.S. History (for Good Works At A Profit)

Film Awards

2020 Los Angeles Regional Emmy Award, Cyberwork and the American Dream 2020 Telly Award, Silver Medal, Cyberwork and the American Dream 2018 Winner, PBS “About Women and Girls Film Festival,” for The Hello Girls 2018 Best Documentary Feature, CyberWork and the American Dream, Los Angeles Film Awards 2018 Platinum for Best Documentary, CyberWork and the American Dream, LA Shorts, October 2018 2018 “Vitruvian Award,” Best Documentary, DaVinci Film Festival, for CyberWork 2016 Best Short Documentary, American Umpire, San Diego GI Film Festival

Fellowships and Grants

2017-2020 Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 2015-2017 Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 2010-2014 National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 2010 Fellow, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University (Declined) 2003-2004 Fulbright Distinguished Professorship, Mary Ball Washington Chair, University College Dublin, Ireland 2000, 1998 Travel Grant, Government of Canada, National Archives 1997 Bernath Lecture Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) 1994 Arnold and Lois Graves Award, for research in Ghana

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1993 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. 1993, 1991 Research Grants, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation 1990 Research Grant, American Philosophical Society 1988 Stuart L. Bernath Dissertation Grant, SHAFR 1987 Rockefeller University Research Grant, Rockefeller Archive Center 1986 David Potter Award, Outstanding History Graduate Student, Stanford 1986 Organization of American States Fellowship (Rio de Janeiro) 1986 Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford (Research grant) 1983-87 Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities

Teaching Awards

2012 “Most Influential Teacher,” Department of History, San Diego State University 2006 “Most Influential Teacher,” Department of History, San Diego State University

Other Awards

1983 “Outstanding Senior,” UCSD Alumni Association 1980 John D. Rockefeller III Youth Award ($10,000), for a “significant contribution to the well-being of mankind,” Rockefeller Foundation, New York. Only one of these awards was given annually, worldwide 1978 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship, Washington, D.C. 1978 Award for “Service to San Diego Youth,” City of San Diego

Books

2020 The Tubman Command, A Novel. New York: Arcade, paper.

2019 The Tubman Command, A Novel. New York: Arcade.

2019 The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers. Cambridge: Harvard, paper.

2017 The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers. Newark: Audible Books.

2017 The Hello Girls: America’s First Female Soldiers. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, hardcover.

2017 The Hamilton Affair, A Novel. New York: Arcade Publishing, paperback.

2016 The Hamilton Affair, A Novel. New York: Brilliance Audio Books.

2016 The Hamilton Affair, A Novel. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

2016 The Hamilton Affair, A Novel. New York: Arcade Publishing, hardcover.

2015 Major Problems in American History, 1865 to the Present, fourth edition. Boston: Cengage.

2013 American Umpire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

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2011 Broken Promises, A Novel of the Civil War. New York: Random House.

2011 Major Problems in American History, 1865 to the Present, third edition. Boston: Cengage.

2006 Major Problems in American History, 1865-Present, second edition. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.

2002 Major Problems in American History, 1865-Present. Boston: Houghton- Mifflin.

2000 All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, paperback.

1998 All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, hardcover.

1992 The Rich Neighbor Policy: Rockefeller and Kaiser in Brazil. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Films

2019 Producer and Writer, CyberWork and the American Dream, Shell Studios. NETA, American Public Television, PBS SoCal. 2018 Producer, The Hello Girls, Lincoln Penny Films. Independent distribution. 2016 Producer and Scriptwriter, American Umpire, Shell Studios. American Public Television, WETA-Washington.

Peer-Reviewed Journals and Anthologies

2018 “Values Without Borders,” in Fight for Liberty: Defending Democracy in the Age of Trump, ed. Mark Lasswell (New York: Public Affairs, 2018).

2017 “Fighting On Two Fronts: World War One, Women’s Suffrage, and John Pershing’s ‘Hello Girls.’” South Central Review: Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association, v. 34, 3 (Fall 2017): 31-47.

2014 “The Sincerest Form of Flattery: The Peace Corps, The Helsinki Accords, and the Internationalization of Social Values,” in Bruce J. Schulman, Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America (New York: Oxford, 2014).

2004 “John F. Kennedy and the Problem of Idealism,” in John F. Kennedy: A Retrospective Look, Warsaw University Press (Poland): 119-125.

2001 “Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Foreign Policy of the Peace Corps,” in Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World Since 1945. Columbus: Ohio State University, 2001: 123-153.

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1997 “Diplomatic History and the Meaning of Life: Toward a Global American History,” Diplomatic History. Fall 1997: 499-518.

1996 “Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Foreign Policy of the Peace Corps.” Diplomatic History. Winter 1996: 79-105.

1991 “U.S. Business: Self-Interest and Neutrality,” in Abraham F. Lowenthal, ed., Exporting Democracy: The United States and Latin America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991: 264-295.

1989 “Entrepreneurship as Diplomacy: Nelson Rockefeller and the Development of the Brazilian Capital Market.” Business History Review, Spring 1989, 61, no. 1: 88-121.

Op-Eds and Essays

2020 “Americans Want the Freedom to Be Stupid,” Financial Times, July 9.

2020 “Why Did the US Kill Suleimani?” New York Times, January 7.

2019 “How the Center Can Reclaim Feminism,” Washington Post, November 14.

2019 “What Took So Long for Women to Win the Right to Vote?,” Washington Post, June 2, 2019.

2019 “Historians on Trump: We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This,” CNN, Opinion, October 4.

2019 “Harriet Tubman, America’s Foremost Female Patriot, Belongs on the $20 Now,” Washington Post, May 26.

2019 “An Equation to Ensure America Survives the Age of AI,” Financial Times, April 11.

2019 “These Women Were Denied Veterans Status for Decades; Congress Can’t Overlook Them Again,” Washington Post, March 4.

2018 “The US Should Choose Conciliation with China, Not Confrontation,” Washington Post, December 1.

2018 “Evaluating Woodrow Wilson’s Complicated Contributions to Women’s Equality,” NBC News.com, August 26.

2018 “Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill Would Be Smart,” The Hill, August 19.

2018 “Kanye West is Lecturing on Slavery, But He Gets The History Wrong,” Washington Post, May 4.

2018 “Why The Pulitzer Keeps Ignoring Women’s History,” Washington Post, April 13.

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2017 “Hello Girls Answered Our Nation’s Call,” Houston Chronicle, May 27.

2017 “International Women’s Day: American Women Behind, As Usual,” The Hill, March 7.

2017 “Wilson’s Woman Problem, A Case Study for the Trump Era,” Los Angeles Times, January 18.

2017 “Can History Prepare Us for the Trump Presidency?” Politico, January 22.

2016 “The Trump Age: New Possibilities for the New World Order,” Defence Matters (Greece, Romania, Latvia, Slovakia), December 13. Online: http://defencematters.org/news/trump-age-new-possibilities-new-world- order/1207/

2016 “Sexual Politics and The Politics of Sex,” Daily Mail (London) and Reuters, September 26.

2016 “Why Today’s Victors Don’t Want the Spoils,” San Diego Union, September 21.

2016 “Trump is a Terrible Representative of a Worthy Idea,” San Jose Mercury, September 12.

2016 “For U.S. Foreign Policy, It’s Time to Look Again at the Founders’ “Great Rule,’” Los Angeles Times, July 4.

2016 “Brexit Vote Has Global Consequences,” San Diego Union, June 11.

2016 “How Donald Trump Has Already Shaken U.S. Relations with Friends and Foes,” Reuters, March 30.

2016 “Kuwait Showed the Value of Limited Intervention,” New York Times, Room for Debate, February 28.

2015 “Why the Letter to Iran Won’t End Well for Republicans,” Reuters, March 11.

2015 “Why Boehner’s Invite to Netanyahu is Unconstitutional,” Reuters, March 2.

2014 “Metaphor Meets Reality: U.S. and China Are Clearing the Air,” Reuters, November 17.

2014 “Avoid a Classic Blunder: Stay Out of Religious Wars in the Middle East,” Reuters, September 16.

2014 “Court of Arbitration Could Help Solve Russia-Ukraine Crisis,” San Diego Union, March 26.

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2014 “Obama Must Escape the Cold War Syndrome,” Chicago Tribune and Reuters. February 21.

2014 “America’s Long Search for Mr. Right,” Reuters, February 12.

2014 “Best Frenemies,” Hoover Digest, January, reprinted from “Making Frenemies with Putin,” Reuters, September 10.

2013 “Room for Debate: For U.S., There’s An Easy Distinction,” New York Times, September 4.

2013 “Patriotism: Revolutionaries Were Original Patriots,” San Diego Union, June 29.

2013 “George Washington’s Benghazi Blues,” Jerusalem Post, May 26.

2013 “Terrorism: Is American Imperialism Inviting It?” San Jose Mercury, May 3.

2013 “America’s Civil War—and Syria’s,” San Diego Union, April 10.

2013 “China as Peacemaker,” Reuters, March 27.

2013 “Room for Debate: China, Japan, and South Korea’s Turn,” New York Times, March 13.

2013 “Come Home, America,” New York Times, March 5.

2011 “Saddle Up for A Wild Western Ride, L’Amour Style, National Public Radio Website, “All Things Considered,” May 16.

2011 “A Dangerous Neutrality,” DisUnion Blog, New York Times, The Opinion Pages, 12 May.

2010 “How I Became a Novelist and Lived (Learned) to Tell the Tale,” Passport, SHAFR, April 2010: 22-23.

2008 “The Ties That Bind: Personal Diplomacy in International Relations,” Washington Independent, August 29.

2008 “Spying: A US Psychic Dilemma.” Washington Independent, June 20.

2008 “When Did Talking Go Out of Style?” Washington Independent, June 4.

2006 “Returning to Containment,” San Diego Union, March 8.

2001 “Nothing Wrong With Teaching What’s Right About U.S.,” Los Angeles Times, December 30.

2001 “The Assassins Revisited,” San Diego Union, October 18.

1999 “Playing the Role of Warrior and Priest,” Los Angeles Times, April 11.

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1998 “Building Nations with the Peace Corps,” San Diego Union, April 26.

1993 “The Peace Corps of the Nineties,” San Diego Union, September 22.

Encyclopedia Entries

2008 “The New Frontier” and “The Peace Corps,” in Encyclopedia of the Cold War, Routledge: 626-627, 684-686.

2003 “The Peace Corps,” in Poverty and Social Welfare in America: An Encyclopedia, ed. Gwendolyn Mink, et al, ABC-Clio: 530-531.

2001 The Oxford Companion to United States History, Oxford University Press, entry on “The Peace Corps:” 584.

1995 Encyclopedia of Latin American History, Charles Scribner’s Sons, entries on Rui Barbosa, Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco, and Afrânio de Melo Franco.

Government Service:

1999-2005 Member, Historical Advisory Committee, U.S. State Department

Public and Academic Service:

2015 Juror, U.S. Peace Corps Commemorative National Design Competition 2015-2017 Member, Robert Ferrell Book Prize Committee, SHAFR 2011-2014 Chair, Post-Tenure Review and Recruitment Committees, SDSU 2011 “Dream Mentor,” Miller Center of Public Service, National Fellows Program, University of Virginia 2010 Co-Chair, Local Arrangements, American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting 2009 Chair, Bernath Lecture Prize Committee, SHAFR 2008 Chair, SDSU Departmental Committee for Eight-Year Review 2008 Jury Member, Pulitzer Prize for History 2005 Acting Chair, Department of History, SDSU 1998-2000 Council Member, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 1997-98 Chair, Department of History, University of San Diego 1992-98 Director, University Honors Program, University of San Diego

Invited Lectures, Book Talks, and Scholarly Presentations

2020 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival (January 29-31); California State University Riverside (Jan. 30); First Division Museum, Cantigny Park, Chicago (March 5); Claremont-McKenna College (March 9).

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2019 Military Heritage Center, College Station (Feb. 13); “Signature Series,” Campbell County Public Library, Kentucky (Feb. 22); U.S. Congress, Screening Of “CyberWork,” March 12; Keynote Address, National Council for History Education, March 15; Cato Institute, Washington, April 21; Smithsonian Institution, April 22; New York University, April 22; Brotherhood Synagogue, April 22; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 23; Newton Public Library, Boston, April 24; Texas A&M, Texarkana, May 3; Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, May 6; Stanford University, May 7; Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park, May 8; Northwestern University, May 14; Union League Club of Chicago, May 17; Historic Tabernacle Baptist Church, Beaufort, SC, May 18; Dekalb History Center, Atlanta, Ga, May 22; U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle Barracks (August 24): Global Dream Forum, Columbia University (October 22); National Arts Club, New York City (October 22); Stanford University Alumni Series (October 25).

2019 “All Things Considered” with Michele Martin, November 10, 2019: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/10/778098007/-the-tubman-command-author-on- harriet-tubman-as-a-patriotic-veteran

2019 C-Span 2: Book TV, “The Tubman Command,” Filmed at the Smithsonian Institution, May 22, 2019: https://www.c-span.org/video/?459981-1/the- tubman-command

2018 Invited Lectures: Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, California (January 23-24); “Great Lives Series,” University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA (February 6); “Women United,” Orlando, Florida, United Way (February 22); Women’s Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery (March 1); Tucson Festival of Books (March 11-12); World War One Memorial Museum, Kansas City, Missouri (March 22); “Los Altos Forum,” Los Altos, CA (April 3); “Literary Orange,” Orange County Public Library, California (April 7); Cui Yongyuan Center for Oral History, Communication University of China, Beijing (April 28); Pritzker Military Museum, Chicago (May 31); Daughters of the American Revolution, Navasota, Texas (September 15); Falmouth Historical Society, Massachusetts (October 13); Army Navy Club, Washington, DC (October 16); 59E59 Theatre, New York City (December 8).

2018 National History Day Webinar, October 11: https://www.nhd.org/legacies-world-war-i

2018 • C-Span, American History TV, “Discussion of Women During Wartime,” March 11: https://www.c-span.org/video/?441346-21/panel-discussion-women- wartime

• C-Span, American History TV, “The Cold War in 1968,” May 13: https://www.c-span.org/video/?445388-4/washington-journal-elizabeth-cobbs- mark-kramer-discuss-cold-war-1968

2017 Invited Lectures: Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, The Hello Girls (December 11); National Archives, Washington, DC, The Hello Girls (April 25); Columbia University, Hamilton Affair (April 24); Monterey World Affairs

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Council, American Umpire (March 7); The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, Hamilton Affair (March 2).

2017 Annual Conference, U.S. Intellectual History Association, Roundtable, “Liberal Intellectuals and the Politics of Intervention in World Wars I and II,” Dallas, October 27.

2017 C-Span, “U.S. Women Soldiers During World War I,” Filmed at the National Archives, Washington, DC, April 25: https://www.c-span.org/video/?427448-1/us-women-soldiers-world-war

2017 Annual Conference, Organization of American Historians, New Orleans, “America’s First Female Soldiers and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage,” April 8.

2017 Conference, “1917,” Paper: “The Hello Girls at the Battle of Meuse-Argonne,” Texas A&M, March 1.

2016 Invited Screenings and Panel Discussions of the film American Umpire: San Diego State University (October 28), Robert Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas (October 17), University of Washington (October 4), Oregon State Historical Society (October 3), Chicago Public Library (September 26), Phoenix Council of Foreign Relations (September 19), Hofstra University (September 14), College of William and Mary (September 13), World Affairs Council of Hampton Roads (September 12), Newton Public Library, Massachusetts (August 25), Cato Institute (August 23), Stanford University (April 26), Bush Library, Texas A&M (March 25), Williams College (January 13). Co-Panelists: Francis Fukuyama, David Kennedy, Andrew Bacevich, Fredrik Logevall, Barry Posen, Ambassador Ryan Crocker, and others.

2016 Invited Presentations on The Hamilton Affair: “Martha Washington Tea,” Ford Mansion, National Park Service, Morristown, NJ (December 4), Daughters of the American Revolution, Morristown, NJ (December 3), “Aggie-Connect,” Texas A&M (October 28), Third Place Books, Seattle (October 4), Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland (October 3), Barnes and Noble, Chicago (September 26), Barnes and Noble, Williamsburg (September 13), Boston Public Library (August 25), Book Court, Brooklyn (August 24), Politics and Prose, Washington DC (August 22), Warwicks Books, San Diego (August 17).

2016 “Empire,” Round-Table on “Traditions v. Experiences in American Foreign Relations,” U.S. Intellectual History Conference, October 14

2016 Commentator and Chair, “World War II in Diplomacy and Commemoration,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Annual Conference, June 24

2015 “Alexander Hamilton and the Early Republic,” American History TV, C-Span3, April 22: http://www.c-span.org/video/?324179-1/alexanderhamilton- early-republic

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2015 “Historians Writing Fiction,” Round-Table Discussion, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York City, January 2.

2014 Commonwealth Club (San Francisco), “Umpire or Empire: The History and Future of American Leadership,” November 10.

2014 C-Span3 American History TV, “The U.S. and World Leadership,” October 10

2014 Denver World Affairs Council, “Umpire or Empire: The Costs and Consequences of World Leadership,” September 9.

2014 Miller Center Forum, University of Virginia: “An Empire of Influence Not Arms,” February 12.

2013-14 Invited lectures: “America: Empire or Umpire, and At What Cost?” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, American University, Notre Dame, University of Texas, Texas A&M, Stanford University, Cornell University.

2013 Victor Rocha Memorial Lecture, “American Umpire,” California State University, San Marcos October 17.

2013 Civil War Round Table, San Diego, “Friends, Enemies, and Countrymen: Britain in the U.S. Civil War,” October 16.

2012 Public Round-Table: “American Umpire,” Miller Center Fellows Conference,” University of Virginia, May 10.

2011 Featured Speaker: 9th Annual Southern California Writers’ Conference, Irvine, California, September 25.

2011 Public Lecture: “To Compel Acquiescence: The Real Meaning of the Founders’ ‘Empire’ of Liberty, 1648-1789,” Harvard University and Boston University, March 29 and 30.

2011 Miller Center Forum, “JFK and America’s Peace Corps at Fifty,” Miller Center Forum, University of Virginia.

2010 Round-Table: “Educational Exchange and the Writing of International History,” Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Madison, Wisconsin, June 26.

2010 Panel: “What Has Obama Learned From History?” Annual Conference of the American Historical Association, January 8.

2009 “Big History: New Approaches to the Human Story,” University College Dublin (Ireland), March 24.

2009 Paper: “The Peace of Westphalia, the Federalist Papers, and

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Contradictory Approaches to State Sovereignty,” SHAFR, Falls Church, Virginia, June.

2008 “To Fly to the Aid of Humanity: The Peace Corps and America's Dream of Itself," Lowell Lecture Series, National Heritage Museum, Lexington, Massachusetts, May 17; “The Open Door vs. the Revolving Door: Rethinking America and Empire,” Stanford University, Conference: “Reflections on the American Condition: A Celebration of the Career of David Kennedy,” March 7-8.

2006 “Legacies of Vietnam: Car Crash on the Road to the New Millennium,” SDSU, Vietnam Symposium, April 22. First Annual David M. Kennedy Lecture,” Stanford University, March 9. William Jefferson Clinton Lecture,” University College Dublin, February 16.

2005 “Status of the FRUS Series and the Department of State Declassification Program,” Organization of American Historians, Annual Conference, San Jose, California.

2004 “The Peace Corps of John Kennedy,” Free University, Berlin, February 19.

2003 “The Peace Corps of John Kennedy,” Royal Holloway, London University, Surrey, December 10.

2003 “John F. Kennedy and the Problem of Idealism,” American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, 40th Memorial Conference, Nov. 22.

2003 Commentary: “Eisenhower and the Decolonizing World,” Conference on Eisenhower and the Third World, University of San Diego, March 21-22.

2000 “The Critique of Imperial America: The Peace Corps in the National Security State,” Miller Center Conference on “The Great Society,” November 17 and 18, University of Virginia.

2000 Commentary: A Critique of the Study of U.S.-Latin American Relations, Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida, March.

2000 “Innocents Abroad: Peace Corps Volunteers vs. Modernization Theorists in the 1960s,” American Historical Association, Chicago, January 2000.

1999 “Diffusing the State: Internationalizing America in the Twentieth Century,” Organization of American Historians, Annual Meeting, Toronto, April.

1998 “All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s,” Institute for Contemporary History, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

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1998 New Approaches to US. Foreign Relations,” Organization of American Historians, Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, April.

1998 “Contradictions of the Imperial Classroom: The Peace Corps During the Vietnam War,” American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Seattle, January.

1997 Stuart Bernath Memorial Lecture: “Diplomatic History and the Meaning of Life: Toward a Global American History,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, April.

1997 “A Relationship of Mutual Use: David and Goliath, or, The Peace Corps in Ghana,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, January.

1996 “The Peace Corps, Decolonization, and the Color Line,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Boulder, Colorado, June.

1996 American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective: The Peace Corps,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Chicago, March.

1995 “The Creation and Evaporation of Regional Egalitarianism,” Roundtable on the Good Neighbor Policy,” Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Annapolis, June.

1995 Invited commentary: “Kennan, The Cold War, and the Future of American Foreign Policy,” University of Southern California, Center for International Studies, January.

1994 “Decolonization, Cold War, and Foreign Policy of the Peace Corps,” OSU.

1993 Commentary: “The United States and Latin America,” Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Charlottesville, VA, June 1993.

1991 “U.S. Business in Latin America: The Origins of a Corporatist Consensus,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Assn., Pacific Coast Branch, Kona, Hawaii, August 1991.

1988 “Nelson A. Rockefeller: A Private Marshall Plan for Brazil, 1945-1960,” American Historical Assn., Cincinnati, Ohio, December.

1988 “Kaiser Corporation and the Brazilian Automobile Industry,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., December.

Book Reviews

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2020 Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War, by Stephanie McCurry and The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Homefront to the Front Lines, by Kara Dixon Vuic, Reviews in American History, v. 48, n. 1 (March 2020) : 98-104.

2019 To Begin The World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe, by Matthew Lockwood, Times Higher Education (London), September 10.

2017 The Second Line of Defense: Women in World War One, by Lynn Dumenil, Journal of the Gilded and Progressive Era, 16 (2017), 531-532.

2017 The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775- 1848, by Jonathan Israel, Times Higher Education (London), October 12.

2017 At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, by Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord, Times Higher Education (London), March 30.

2016 The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and The Culture of Transparency, 1945-1975, by Michael Schudson, Canadian Journal of History, Winter 2016, Vol. 51, No. 3: 648-650.

2016 A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global Role, by John Thompson, Passport, September 2016: 61-62.

2016 The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency (Ellen Fitzpatrick), Times Higher Education, March 10.

2016 Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government (Gary Gerstle), Times Higher Education, January 14.

2014 “Escaping the Intellectual Trap of Empire,” Review of Noel Mauer, The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of US. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, Reviews in American History, v. 42, n. 4, December: 746- 750.

2014 “Books of 2014” (Contributor), Times Higher Education (London), December 18.

2014 “Time to Turn Off the Lava Lamp,” Review of Perry Anderson, New Left Review 93, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers, Diplomatic History, December. (First published online: December 14, 2014)

2014 Global Republic: America’s Inadvertent Rise to World Power, by Frank Ninkovich, Times Higher Education (London), October 9.

2014 Still Ours to Lead: America, Rising Powers, and the Tension Between Rivalry and Restraint, by Bruce Jones, Times Higher Education (London), July 13.

2014 The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the 21st Century, by Angela Stent, Times Higher Education (London), February 6.

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2011 Ninety Days in the Empire, William Appleman Williams, Passport, SHAFR, April 2011, v. 42, n. 1.

2010 John F. Kennedy, World Leader, by Stephen Rabe, Presidential Studies Quarterly, v. 40, n. 4 (December), 815-816.

2010 Blue and Grey Diplomacy, by Howard Jones, H-Diplo, July 26.

2009 Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, by Matthew Connelly, Diplomatic History, April, 371-374.

2009 From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, by George Herring, H-Diplo, June.

2008 The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscope History of a Disorderly Decade, by Gerard DeGroot, San Diego Union, May 23.

2007 Anti-Americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Alan McPherson, American Historical Review, Dec. 2007, p. 1579.

2006 Guests of the Ayatollah, by Mark Bowden, San Diego Union, May 21.

2005 Morning in America, by Gil Troy, San Diego Union, May 1.

2003 Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See, by Mike Davis, San Diego Union, October.

2003 The Strange Death of American Liberalism, by H.W. Brands, Journal of American History, September 2003.

2003 Sons of Mississippi, by Paul Hendrickson, San Diego Union, March 23.

2002 In Search of Klingsor, by Jorge Volpa, San Diego Union, August 14

2001 John Adams, by David McCullough, San Diego Union, June 3.

2000 The Circus Fire, by Stewart O’Nan, San Diego Union, July 23.

2000 The Gates of the Alamo, by Stephen Harrigan, San Diego Union, March 5.

1999 Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s, by Fritz Fischer, International History Review, December.

1999 Years of Renewal, by Henry Kissinger, San Diego Union, March 28.

1999 Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950-1954, by Mary Ann Heiss, Diplomatic History, Summer 1999.

1998 The Life and Times of Pancho Villa, by Friedrich Katz, San Diego Union, December 12, 1998.

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1998 Split: A Counter-culture Childhood, San Diego Union, August 24, 1998.

1998 Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Postwar Trade Policy, by Susan Ariel Aaronson, American Historical Review, October 1998.

1997 The Peace Corps Experience: Challenge and Change, 1969-1976, by P. David Searles, Journal of American History, December 1997.

1997 Joint review of A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990, by Robert Kagan, and US-Sandinista Diplomatic Relations: Voice of Intolerance, by David Ryan, Journal of American History, March 1997.

1997 Feature Review: “Why They Think Like Gringos,” Diplomatic History, Spring 1997.

1996 FDR’s Good Neighbor Policy: Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos, by Frederick B. Pike, The Americas, July.

1995 Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon. Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil, by Gerald Colby with Charlotte Dennett, The Christian Century, November 1.

1994 Missionaries of Science: The Rockefeller Foundation and Latin America, Marcos Cueto, ed., Business History Review, Fall 1994.

1994 Money Doctors, Foreign Debts, and Economic Reforms in Latin America from the 1890s to the Present, by Paul Drake, Business History Review, Vol. 68, No. 2 (Summer 1994).

1994 Looking Inward-Looking Outward: Aspects of American Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty, Göran Rystad, ed., Journal of American History, June.

1993 Joint Review The Peace Corps in Cameroon by Julius Amin, and What You Can Do For Your Country: An Oral History of the Peace Corps by Karen Schwarz, Oral History Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Winter 1993).

1989 Money Doctor in the Andes: The Kemmerer Missions, 1923-1933, by Paul Drake, Business History Review, Winter 1989.

Languages English, Portuguese, Spanish

Previous Academic Positions

1998-2015 Dwight E. Stanford Professor of History, San Diego State University 1989-1998 Associate and Assistant Professor of History, University of San Diego 1988-1989 Lecturer, University of California, San Diego

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Previous Professional and Administrative Experience:

Employment:

1976-1983 Managing Editor, The Longest Revolution: News and Views of Progressivism Feminism (San Diego: Center for Women’s Studies and Services).

1972-1983 Publications Coordinator, Fundraiser, and Project Developer, Center for Women’s Studies and Services.

1981-1982 Acting Executive Director, Center for Women’s Studies and Services.

1976-1978 Consultant, Open Road New Jobs Project (San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, San Diego), Citizen’s Policy Center. Staff training and program planning.

1975-1976 Coordinator, San Diego Open Road New Jobs Project, Citizen’s Policy Center. A state-funded work experience program for young people ages 16-24. Organized demonstration from idea stage to refunding at local level.

Major Addresses:

1980 Keynote Speaker, “Young Women and Their Futures.” Dayton- Hudson-Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1980 Keynote Speaker, “Today’s Girls, Tomorrow’s Women,” Statewide California Girls Clubs Conference.

1979 Speaker, “Itasca Seminar,” Minneapolis Foundation, Minnesota.

1979 Plenary Session Speaker on “Youth Rights,” 30th Annual Conference of the Council on Foundations, Seattle, Washington