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 CV, Elizabeth Cobbs, p. 2 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. CV, Elizabeth Cobbs, p. 3 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. CV, Elizabeth Cobbs, p. 4 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. CV, Elizabeth Cobbs, p. 5 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. CV, Elizabeth Cobbs, p. 6 2014 “Obama Must Escape the Cold War