ANDREW L. JOHNS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DAVID M. KENNEDY CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
2161 JFSB * PROVO, UT 84602-4446 * USA 801.422.8942 [OFFICE] * [email protected] https://history.byu.edu/directory/andrew-johns
EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA (1993-2000) Ph.D., History [U.S. foreign relations], December 2000 M.A., History [United States], June 1995
Brigham Young University Provo, UT (1990-1992) B.A., magna cum laude, History, August 1992
University of Arizona Tucson, AZ (1986-1987, 1990)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Brigham Young University Professor, Department of History, 2021-present Associate Professor, Department of History, 2011-2021 Assistant Professor, Department of History, 2004-2011 Faculty Affiliate, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, 2004-present
Gonzaga University Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, 2004
Antelope Valley College Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2003
California State University, Northridge Lecturer, Department of History, 2003
University of California, Santa Barbara Lecturer, Department of History, 2001 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, 1995-1998
Santa Barbara City College Lecturer, Department of History and Geography, 2000 JOHNS, C.V., 2
CURRENT RESEARCH
1972: A Global History. In preparation.
Engaging the Enemy: U.S. Post-Conflict Diplomacy since 1783, edited with Brian C. Etheridge. In preparation.
American Statesman: John Sherman Cooper and the Cold War, 1946-1976 (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace Book Series). Under contract; in preparation.
“Raising the Stakes: Richard Nixon, Poker, and the American Style of Rhetorical Diplomacy,” in preparation for the Journal of Sport History.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Price of Loyalty: Hubert Humphrey’s Vietnam Conflict (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., Vietnam: America in the War Years Series, 2020).
Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, cloth, 2010; paper, 2012).
Edited volumes
The Cold War at Home and Abroad: Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1945, edited with Mitchell B. Lerner (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace Book Series, 2018).
A Companion to Ronald Reagan (Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History Series, 2015).
Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945, edited with Heather L. Dichter (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace Book Series, cloth, 2014; paper, 2020). *Chinese translation under contract and in production (Beijing: Beijing Sport University Press, forthcoming 2021)
The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War, edited with Kathryn C. Statler (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, 2006). JOHNS, C.V., 3
Journal articles
“The Diplomacy of Quiet Candor: John Sherman Cooper’s Tenure as Ambassador to India,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 119/1 (Winter 2021); in press.
“Breaking the Eleventh Commandment: Pete McCloskey’s Campaign Against the Vietnam War,” California History 98/1 (Spring 2021), 3-27.
“Mortgaging the Future: Barry Goldwater, Lyndon Johnson, and Vietnam in the 1964 Presidential Election,” Journal of Arizona History 61/2 (Spring 2020), 149-160.
“Declining the ‘Invitation to Struggle’: Congressional Complicity in the Rise of the Imperial Presidency,” Pacific Historical Review 89/1 (Winter 2020), 97-130.
“Thank God He’s on Our Side: The Scholarship, Influence, and Legacy of David F. Schmitz,” Pacific Historical Review 88/4 (Fall 2019), 659-666. *Guest editor for the issue
“The Johnson Administration, the Shah of Iran, and the Changing Pattern of U.S.-Iranian Relations: ‘Tired of Being Treated Like a Schoolboy,’” Journal of Cold War Studies 9/2 (Spring 2007), 64-94.
“Doves Among Hawks: Republican Opposition to the War in Vietnam, 1964-1968,” Peace & Change 31/4 (October 2006), 585-628.
“Achilles’ Heel: The Vietnam War and George Romney’s Bid for the Presidency, 1967 to 1968,” Michigan Historical Review 26/1 (Spring 2000), 1-29. *Winner, Michigan Historical Review Graduate Student Essay Prize, 1999
“A Voice from the Wilderness: Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, 1964-1966,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 29/2 (Spring 1999), 317-335.
“Opening Pandora’s Box: The Genesis and Evolution of the 1964 Congressional Resolution on Vietnam,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 6/2-3 (Summer-Fall 1997), 175-206.
Book chapters
“Janus, Tocqueville, and the World: The Nexus of Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy,” in Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell B. Lerner, eds., The Cold War at Home and Abroad: Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1945 (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace Series, 2018), 1-7.
“‘To Grasp and Hold a Vision’: Ronald Reagan in Historical Perspective,” in Andrew L. Johns, ed., A Companion to Ronald Reagan (Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History Series, 2015), 1-6. JOHNS, C.V., 4
“Competing in the Global Arena: Sport and Foreign Relations since 1945,” in Heather L. Dichter and Andrew L. Johns, eds., Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945 (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace Book Series, 2014), 1-15. *Chinese translation under contract and in production (Beijing: Beijing Sport University Press, forthcoming 2021)
“The Legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson,” in Mitchell Lerner, ed., A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson (Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Blackwell Companions to American History Series, 2012), 504- 519.
“Hail to the Salesman in Chief: Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, and the Presidency,” in Kenneth Osgood and Andrew K. Frank, eds., Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2010), 1-17.
Review essays
“TBD,” review essay on Aaron Donaghy, The Second Cold War: Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy (2021) [Roundtable participants: Andrew L. Johns, Henry Maar, Nancy Mitchell, Thomas A. Schwartz, and Aileen Teague; author’s response by Aaron Donaghy], H-Diplo Roundtable Review, in preparation.
“Partners in Power,” review essay on Roham Alvandi, Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War (2014) [Roundtable participants: Malcolm Byrne, Anoush Ehteshami, W. Taylor Fain, and Andrew L. Johns; author’s response by Roham Alvandi], H-Diplo Roundtable Review 16/30 (July 2015).
“The Bad News is There is No Good News,” review essay on Walter Hixson, The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy (2008) [Roundtable participants: Christopher Endy, Andrew L. Johns, and Naoko Shibusawa; author’s response by Walter Hixson], Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 39/3 (January 2009), 6-9.
“Choosing Diem,” review essay on Seth Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia (2004) [Roundtable participants: James Carter, Andrew L. Johns, Thomas R. Maddux, Edward Miller, Joseph G. Morgan; author’s response by Seth Jacobs], H-Diplo Roundtable Review 8/6 (June 2007).
“Fighting Words,” review article on Chris Tudda, The Truth is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles (2006), Reviews in American History 35/2 (June 2007), 273-283. JOHNS, C.V., 5
Book reviews
Review of Aram Goudsouzian, The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America (2019), New England Quarterly 93/3 (September 2020); 535-538.
Review of Kyle Burke, Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War (2018), American Historical Review 125/3 (June 2020), 1050-1051.
Review of Matthew Avery Sutton, Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States during the Second World War (2019), Pacific Historical Review 89/2 (Spring 2020), 314-316.
Review of Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (2019), Pacific Historical Review 89/1 (Winter 2020), 161-162.
Review of Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini, eds., Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War (2013), Journal of American History 101/2 (September 2014), 673-674.
Review of J.C.A. Stagg, The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent (2012), Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes de Histoire 49/1 (Spring/Summer 2014), 129-130.
Review of Michael Bowen, The Roots of Modern Conservatism: Dewey, Taft, and the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party (2011), Journal of American Studies 46/4 (November 2012), E70.
Review of Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment (2010), Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes de Histoire 47/2 (Fall 2012), 457-459.
Review of Eugenie M. Blang, Allies at Odds: America, Europe, and Vietnam, 1961-1968 (2011), American Historical Review 116/5 (December 2011), 1453-1454.
Review of Richard H. Immerman, Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz (2010), Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes de Histoire 46/2 (Fall 2011), 409-411.
Review of W. Taylor Fain, American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region (2008), Journal of Cold War Studies 13/4 (Fall 2011), 217-218.
Review of Colin Dueck, Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II (2010), Journal of American History 98/2 (September 2011), 597-598.
Review of Timothy Stanley, Kennedy vs. Carter: The 1980 Battle for the Democratic Party’s Soul (2010), Journal of American Studies 45/3 (August 2011), 636-638.
Review of Julian E. Zelizer, Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security–From World War II to the War on Terrorism (2009), Journal of Military History 74/4 (October 2010), 1328-1329.
Review of James M. Carter, Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968 (2008), Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes de Histoire 44/2 (Fall 2009), 380-382. JOHNS, C.V., 6
Review of Guangqiu Xu, Congress and the U.S.-China Relationship, 1949-1979 (2007), Journal of American History 94/4 (March 2008), 1315.
Review of Salim Yaqub, Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (2004), Journal of Cold War Studies 9/4 (Fall 2007), 147-149.
Review of Mark Moyar, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1945-1965 (2006), Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes de Histoire 42/1 (Spring/Summer 2007), 160-163.
Review of John M. Shaw, The Cambodian Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America’s Vietnam War (2005), Journal of American History 93/2 (September 2006), 610-611.
Review of Walter LaFeber, The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election (2005), Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes de Histoire 41/1 (Spring/Summer 2006), 164-166.
Review of John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter, eds., Inside the Pentagon Papers (2004), Presidential Studies Quarterly 35/3 (September 2005), 619-621.
Review of David L. Anderson, The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War (2002), Journal of Conflict Studies 25/1 (Summer 2005), 185-186.
Review of Dale Bumpers, The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir (2003), Southwestern Historical Quarterly 108/3 (January 2005), 418-419.
Review of Philip E. Catton, Diem’s Final Failure: Prelude to America’s War in Vietnam (2003), Pacific Historical Review 73/1 (February 2004), 159-161.
Review of John Hagan, Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada (2001), Journal of Cold War Studies 5/2 (Spring 2003), 86-89.
Review of Thomas Preston, The President and His Inner Circle: Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Affairs (2001), H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, December 2001.
Review of Paul Kengor, Wreath Layer or Policy Player: The Vice President’s Role in Foreign Affairs (2000), H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, May 2001.
Review of Mitchell K. Hall, The Vietnam War (2000), H-War, H-Net Reviews, February 2001.
Review of Zachary Karabell, What’s College For?: The Struggle to Define American Higher Education (1998), Perspectives 37/7 (October 1999), 45-46.
Review of Frank E. Vandiver, Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson’s Wars (1997) and James Morley and Masashi Nishihara, eds., Vietnam Joins the World (1997), H-US-Japan, H-Net Reviews, October 1998. JOHNS, C.V., 7
Reference essays
“George Ball,” “Barry Goldwater,” and “Walt Rostow,” in Ruud Van Dijk, William Glenn Gray, Svetlana Savranskaya, Jeremi Suri, and Qiang Zhai, eds., Encyclopedia of the Cold War, 2 vols. (New York: Routledge, 2008).
“Boland Amendments,” “Tet Offensive,” and “X Article,” in James Ciment, ed., Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History, 4 vols. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2007).
“J. William Fulbright,” “Green Berets,” “Pleiku incident,” “Southeast Asia Treaty Organization,” and “Strategic hamlets,” in James I. Matray, ed., East Asia and the United States: An Encyclopedia of Relations since 1784, 2 vols. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002).
“The Emergence of an Anti-communist Consensus in the Early Cold War,” in History in Dispute, Volume 2–American Social and Political Movements, 1945-2000: Pursuit of Liberty, Robert J. Allison, ed. (Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2000): 204-208.
“David Crockett,” “General George Armstrong Custer,” “Admiral George Dewey,” and “Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan,” in Elizabeth Marshall Dubrulle, ed., 19th Century American History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998).
“General Edward Braddock,” “Silas Deane,” “Daniel Dulany, Jr.,” and “General Sir William Howe,” in Elizabeth Marshall Dubrulle, ed., 18th Century American History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998).
Opinion & editorial columns
“From the Chancery: More Things I Think,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 50/2 (September 2019), 6-7.
“From the Chancery: Gratitude,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 49/3 (January 2019), 6.
“From the Chancery: Times Like These,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 48/2 (September 2017), 6.
“The Last Word: Team SHAFR,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 47/3 (January 2017), 71.
“The Last Word: SHAFR and the Patriots’ Way,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 46/3 (January 2016), 78-79.
“The Last Word: Things I Think,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 46/1 (April 2015), 59.
“The Last Word: Signs of the Apocalypse,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 42/3 (January 2012), 43. JOHNS, C.V., 8
“Foreign Policy and the 2012 Presidential Election,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations web site [SHAFR.org], 6 June 2011.
“Back to the Shores of Tripoli,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations web site [SHAFR.org], 23 March 2011.
“The War of Analogies over Egypt,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations web site [SHAFR.org], 16 February 2011.
“WikiLeaks and the Diplomatic Historian,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations web site [SHAFR.org], 29 December 2010.
“Of Mice, Men, and Presidents,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations web site [SHAFR.org], 29 December 2008.
“The Last Word: The Yoo-Cole Debate,” Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 39/2 (September 2008), 79.
Research notes
“Needles in the Haystacks: Using Congressional Collections in Foreign Relations Research,” The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter 34/1 (March 2003), 1-7.
Other academic essays
“The Imperial Presidency and the Irrelevant Congress,” University of California Press blog [https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/49097/the-imperial-presidency-and-the-irrelevant-congress/], 10 February 2020.
Author’s response, roundtable on Andrew L. Johns, Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War (2010) [Roundtable participants: James M. Carter, Steven Casey, Joseph A. Fry, and KC Johnson], H-Diplo/International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 1/4 (November 2010); cross-posted on H-War, 18 January 2011.
Editors’ response, with Kathryn C. Statler, roundtable on Kathryn C. Statler and Andrew L. Johns, eds., The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War (2006) [Roundtable participants: Kenton Clymer, Brian Etheridge, Mary Ann Heiss, Thomas R. Maddux, and Chris Tudda], H-Diplo Roundtable Review 8/2 (March 2007).
“Ten Steps toward a Successful Graduate Student Career,” Organization of American Historians Newsletter 27/3 (August 1999), 17, 24.
“A Thriving Scene: Cold War History at U.C., Santa Barbara,” with Kenneth A. Osgood, The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter 30/1 (March 1999), 1-7.
“Planning a Graduate Student Conference,” with Kenneth A. Osgood, Perspectives 37/3 (March 1999), 39-41. JOHNS, C.V., 9
INVITED LECTURES
“A Faustian Bargain: Hubert Humphrey, LBJ, and the Vietnam War,” Department of History, California State University, Fresno, October 2020.
“The Price of Loyalty: Hubert Humphrey’s Vietnam Conflict and Other Examples of Failed Fealty,” Department of History, University of San Diego, October 2020.
“The Price of Loyalty: Hubert Humphrey’s Vietnam Conflict and Other Examples of Failed Fealty,” Plenary address, University of California, Santa Barbara Center for Cold War Studies/George Washington University Cold War Program/London School of Economics Cold War Studies Centre (UCSB/GWU/LSE) International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2020 [conference cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions].
“Declining the ‘Invitation to Struggle’: Congressional Complicity in the Rise of the Imperial Presidency,” Presidential Address, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2019.
“Vietnam’s Second Front: The Nexus of Domestic Politics and Foreign Relations during America’s Longest War,” Department of History, Binghamton University, SUNY, October 2013.
“Confronting the Hydra: Lyndon Johnson, Domestic Politics, and the Vietnam War, 1965-1967,” Department of History, Metropolitan State College of Denver, March 2011.
“War on Multiple Fronts: Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, and the Historiography of the Vietnam War,” Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice & Department of History, University of San Diego, November 2010.
“Vietnam’s Second Front: The Nexus of Domestic Politics and Foreign Relations during America’s Longest War,” Center for Cold War Studies and International History, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Walter Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, & Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2010.
“Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy during the Vietnam Era,” Reves Center for International Studies, East Asian Studies, Asian Studies Initiative, & Lyon G. Tyler Department of History, College of William & Mary, April 2010.
“The State of the Field in U.S. Foreign Relations,” Graduate Student Association, Department of History, College of William & Mary, April 2010.
“The Expanding Universe Theory: Recent Trends in Historiography on the Vietnam War,” Stanley Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy & Department of History, Williams College, February 2009.
“The GOP and U.S. Vietnam Policy,” Bush School of Government and Public Service, College Station, Texas, October 2007. JOHNS, C.V., 10
“The Perils and Promise of the Academic Job Market: A Cautionary–Yet Inspiring–Tale,” Graduate Student Association, Department of History, Texas A&M University, October 2007.
“The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War,” Department of History, Texas A&M University, October 2007.
“The Goldwater and Fannin Papers: Using Congressional Collections in Foreign Relations Research,” Arizona Historical Foundation, Tempe, Arizona, February 2006.
“The Republican Party’s Influence on U.S. Vietnam Policy,” Third Annual American Foreign Policy Lecture, American Foreign Policy Center, Louisiana Tech University, August 2005.
“The Queen of Diamonds and the Delphic Oracle: George Romney, Richard Nixon, and the Vietnam War, 1967-1968,” Department of History, California State University, Northridge, April 2000.
“George Romney and the Vietnam War,” Mark C. Stevens Fellowship Lecture, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, August 1998.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“I Have Come to Praise Caesar, Not to Bury Him,” roundtable on “Thank God He’s On Our Side: A Roundtable in Celebration of the Scholarship of David F. Schmitz,” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) conference, Santa Clara, CA, August 2018; PCB-AHA Presidential Panel co-sponsored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). With Kimber Quinney, David Schmitz, Kathryn Statler, and Vanessa Walker; organized panel.
“Contested Legacy: Ronald Reagan’s Influence in Myth and Reality,” roundtable on “Reagan, Iran- Contra, and Terrorism 30 Years Later,” PCB-AHA conference, Northridge, CA, August 2017; panel co- sponsored by SHAFR. With Kyle Longley, Chester Pach, Dustin Walcher, and Salim Yaqub; organized panel.
“Reagan and the World: Legacy, Myth, and Memory,” roundtable on “Ronald Reagan’s Foreign Policy at 35,” PCB-AHA conference, Waikoloa Beach, Hawai’i, August 2016. With Chester Pach, Vanessa Walker, and Dustin Walcher; organized panel.
“The Diplomacy of Quiet Candor: John Sherman Cooper’s Tenure as Ambassador to India, 1955-1956,” American Historical Association (AHA) conference, New York, New York, January 2015; panel co- sponsored by the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia (SAHSA).
“Quiet Candor in the Era of Détente: John Sherman Cooper’s Tenure as Ambassador to East Germany, 1974-1976, ” SHAFR conference, Lexington, Kentucky, June 2014; organized panel.
“Politics and Policy: Two Sides of the Same Coin?,” roundtable on “Policy History and Diplomatic History: Together at Last?” Policy History conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 2014; co-organized panel; panel co-sponsored by SHAFR. With William Hitchcock, Mitchell Lerner, Grant Madsen, and Robert McMahon. JOHNS, C.V., 11
“The Role of Foreign Relations in U.S. Elections,” roundtable on “Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy,” PCB-AHA conference, San Diego, California, August 2012; panel solicited by PCB-AHA president and program committee chair and co-sponsored by SHAFR. With Kenneth Osgood, Chester Pach, Dustin Walcher, and Thomas Zeiler.
“Politics, Diplomacy, and the Gipper,” roundtable on “Reconsidering Ronald Reagan and U.S. Foreign Relations,” SHAFR conference, Hartford, Connecticut, June 2012; organized panel. With Jason Colby, Jeremy Kuzmarov, Chester Pach, and Dustin Walcher.
“Elections, Partisan Politics, and U.S. Foreign Policy,” roundtable on “Not All Politics is Local: Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations,” SHAFR conference, Alexandria, Virginia, June 2011. With Campbell Craig, Andrew Falk, Andrew Johnstone, Ralph Levering, and Elizabeth Sanders.
“Two Fronts in Two Conflicts: Domestic Politics and War in Vietnam and Afghanistan,” roundtable on “Vietnam and Afghanistan,” PCB-AHA conference, Santa Clara, California, August 2010; panel solicited by PCB-AHA president and program committee chair and co-sponsored by SHAFR. With Kyle Longley and David Schmitz.
“Accepting the ‘Invitation to Struggle’: Congress, the Vietnam War, and the Breakdown of the Cold War Consensus,” AHA conference, San Diego, California, January 2010; panel co-sponsored by SHAFR.
“Diplomacy of Quiet Candor: John Sherman Cooper’s Tenure as Ambassador to India, 1955-1956,” SHAFR conference, Falls Church, Virginia, June 2009; organized panel.
“The Expanding Universe Theory: Six Trends in the Literature on Vietnam,” roundtable on “The State of Historiography on the Second Indochina War,” PCB-AHA conference, Pasadena, California, August 2008; organized and moderated panel by invitation of the PCB-AHA program committee and president- elect; panel co-sponsored by SHAFR. With David Anderson, Jessica Chapman, and Joseph A. Fry.
“Poker and the Rhetorical Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: A Reconsideration of Richard Nixon’s Madman Theory,” Presidential Panel, Society for Military History (SMH) conference, Ogden, Utah, April 2008; panel solicited by SMH president and conference organizers; panel co-sponsored by SHAFR.
“Raising the Stakes: Poker, Chess, and Richard Nixon’s Madman Theory Reconsidered,”SHAFR conference, Chantilly, Virginia, June 2007; organized panel.
“Breaking the Eleventh Commandment: Paul McCloskey, Richard Nixon, and Vietnam in the 1972 Presidential Election,” SHAFR conference, Lawrence, Kansas, June 2006.
“Tail Wagging the Dog: The Johnson Administration’s Policy Toward Iran and Lessons for the Bush Administration,” conference on “Americans and the World: Foreign Relations, Immigration, and Cultural Exchange in Historical Perspective,” sponsored by the Indiana Association of Historians, Hanover, Indiana, February 2006.
“‘Tired of Being Treated Like a Schoolboy’: U.S.-Iranian Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam, 1965- 1967,” SHAFR conference, College Park, Maryland, June 2005; organized panel. Panel selected by conference program committee to serve as the plenary session for the conference. JOHNS, C.V., 12
“Doves Among Hawks: Republican Opposition to the War in Vietnam, 1964-1968,” SHAFR conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2000; organized panel.
“Hawks, Doves, and Elephants: The Vietnam War and the 1968 Republican Presidential Nomination,” PCB-AHA conference, Maui, Hawai’i, August 1999; organized panel.
“‘Considerable Influence’: Eisenhower, the Republican Party, and the ‘Democrats’ War,’ 1960-1969,” SHAFR conference, College Park, Maryland, June 1998.
“‘The Tocqueville Oscillation’: Domestic Politics and the 1964 Congressional Resolution on Vietnam,” SHAFR conference, Boulder, Colorado, June 1996; organized panel.
“Taking the Next Step: Lyndon Johnson’s Decision to Pursue a Congressional Resolution on Vietnam,” Cold War History Group conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 1996.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (CHAIR & COMMENTARY)
Commentator, panel on “Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, and the Cold War,” UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2020 [conference cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions].
Chair, roundtable on “Democracy and Diplomacy: Twenty Years Later,” SHAFR conference, San Diego, California, June 2016.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Opposing Any ‘Substitute for Victory’: Conservatism and U.S. Foreign Policy during the Cold War,” SHAFR conference, Lexington, Kentucky, June 2014.
Chair, panel on “People and Plutonium in Motion: Global Grassroots Anti-Nuclear Activism,” PCB- AHA conference, Denver, Colorado, August 2013.
Commentator, panel on “The Roots of a Republican Postwar Foreign Policy, 1945-1955,” SHAFR conference, Arlington, Virginia, June 2013.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Sports and Foreign Relations in a Global Age,” SHAFR conference, Arlington, Virginia, June 2013.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Confronting Dien Bien Phu: Why the United States Decided Against War in 1954,” Policy History conference, Richmond, Virginia, June 2012.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Countering the Protest: Domestic Supporters of the Vietnam War,” SHAFR conference, Alexandria, Virginia, June 2011.
Chair, panel on “Religion and Foreign Relations in Contemporary America,” PCB-AHA conference, Santa Clara, California, August 2010. JOHNS, C.V., 13
Chair and commentator, panel on “Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy during the Early Cold War,” SHAFR conference, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2010.
Chair (invited), panel on “Congress, the President, and U.S. Foreign Relations,” conference on “Breaking Down the Walls: Increasing the Discourse and Exchanging Ideas in the American Policy-making Community,” Phoenix, Arizona, April 2010. Conference co-sponsored by Arizona State University, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations, and SHAFR. Organized panel at request of conference chair.
Chair, panel on “Decolonization and the Cold War in the 1960s,” SHAFR conference, Falls Church, Virginia, June 2009.
Chair and commentator (by invitation), symposium on “Civil Rights, the Conservative Movement, and the Presidency,” Alan B. Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency, Florida Atlantic University, February 2009. Symposium aired on C-SPAN, 28 March 2009.
Commentator, panel on “A Look Back as the Tet Offensive Turns 40,” AHA conference, New York, New York, January 2009.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Rethinking the Truman Era: The Politics of Culture in the Early Cold War,” SHAFR conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008.
Commentator, panel on “Labor, Culture, and Religion in the Cold War,” UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2008.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Kennedy and Nuclear Weapons,” SHAFR conference, Chantilly, Virginia, June 2007.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Lyndon B. Johnson in Asia,” SHAFR conference, College Park, Maryland, June 2005.
Commentator, panel on “The Cold War in Africa,” UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2005.
Chair, panel on “Covert Operations and Psychological Warfare,” conference on “Third World, First Priority: The Eisenhower Administration and the Globalization of the Cold War,” Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego, March 2003. Organized conference with Kathryn C. Statler, University of San Diego.
Commentator, panel on “The Cold War in Central Europe,” Center for Cold War Studies graduate student conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2001. JOHNS, C.V., 14
OTHER ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATION
Moderator and organizer, roundtable on “Obama’s Foreign Policy: An Assessment After Year One,” SHAFR web site [www.SHAFR.org], January 2010. With Cary Fraser, Walter Hixson, Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Robert David Johnson, Sandra Scanlon, and Thomas Zeiler.
Panelist (invited), roundtable on “What’s Next?: Post-Election Perspectives on Foreign Policy,” David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies Global Awareness Series, November 2008. With Darren Hawkins, Valerie Hudson, Jeffrey Ringer, and Stan Taylor.
Panelist (invited), roundtable on “Turning Your Paper into a Journal Article,” UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2008. With Hope Harrison, Chester Pach, and Jason Parker.
Moderator (invited), symposium on “Selling War in a Media Age: The President and Public Opinion in the American Century,” Alan B. Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency, Florida Atlantic University, February 2007.
Panelist (invited), roundtable on “Supreme Court in Historical and Contemporary Perspective,” Phi Alpha Theta meeting, Brigham Young University, September 2005. With Richard Davis and Neil York.
Panelist (invited), roundtable on “Future Directions in Cold War History: Implications for the Job Market,” UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2005. With Francis Gavin, Hope Harrison, and Chester Pach.
Panelist (invited), roundtable on “Preparing for Graduate School,” Phi Alpha Theta meeting, Brigham Young University, October 2004. With Mark Choate and Richard Kimball.
MEDIA APPEARANCES & INTERVIEWS
Interview, Tomás Croquevielle, El Mercurio (Chile), “Sport Diplomacy,” 17 March 2016.
Interview, Alexander Heffner, History News Network [hnn.us], “Jon Huntsman, China, and the 2012 GOP Presidential Nomination,” 10 October 2011.
Interview (taped for broadcast), “A Discussion of Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War,” on “Thinking Aloud,” KBYU-FM, Provo, Utah, June 2010; originally aired 16 June 2010.
Interview (taped for broadcast), “John Sherman Cooper: Soldier, Senator, Diplomat,” on “Kentucky’s Statesmen,” Kentucky Public Radio, April 2010; originally aired on WEKU-FM, Richmond, Kentucky, 2 June 2010; other broadcasts include: WKMS-FM, Murray, Kentucky, 10 June 2010; and WFPL-FM, Louisville, Kentucky, 15 June 2010.
Interview (taped for broadcast), “A Historical Perspective on the War in Iraq,” KABC-TV, Los Angeles, California, 9 April 2003. JOHNS, C.V., 15
ACADEMIC HONORS & AWARDS
Thomas G. Alexander Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2020 Young Scholar Award, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University, 2011-2014 Graduate Student Essay Prize, Michigan Historical Review, 1999 Richard K. Mayberry Award (Outstanding Graduate Student), Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998 The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 1992 Golden Key National Honor Society, 1992 Dean’s List, Brigham Young University (3.90 cumulative GPA), 1990-1992 Dean’s List with Distinction (4.00 GPA), University of Arizona, 1986-1987, 1990 Flinn Scholar, Flinn Foundation, 1986-1987, 1990
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
External
Research Grant, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, 1998, 2004, 2010 Research Grant, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2010 Research Grant, Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National & International Affairs, 2010 Eisenhower Presidential Library Abilene Travel Grant, The Eisenhower Foundation, 2010 Fellow, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Summer Institute, 2008 Samuel Flagg Bemis Junior Faculty Research Grant, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2007 Research Grant, Historical Society of Southern California/John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, 2005, 2007 Peter and Edith O’Donnell Grant, The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation, 2006 Moody Research Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 1997, 1998, 2006 Visiting Scholar Grant, Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, University of Oklahoma, 2005 Research Fellow, American Foreign Policy Center, Louisiana Tech University, 2005 Visiting Scholar Grant, Research Department, Minnesota Historical Society/State of Minnesota, 2001 Senator & Mrs. Roman L. Hruska Fellowship Fund Scholar, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, 2000 Congressional Research Award, Dirksen Congressional Center/The Caterpillar Foundation, 1999 Horace Samuel and Marion Galbraith Merrill Travel Grant in Twentieth Century U.S. Political History, Organization of American Historians, 1999 Rockefeller Archive Center General Research Grant, Rockefeller University, 1999 Mark C. Stevens Researcher Fellowship, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 1998 JOHNS, C.V., 16
University
Professional Development Leave, 2014, 2021 Research Grant, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2019 Faculty Research Grant, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017 Internship Development Grant, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2009, 2011 Undergraduate Education Scholarly Research Award, Brigham Young University, 2005-2006, 2006- 2007, 2007-2008 New Faculty Research Grant, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University, 2004-2005 President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, 1999-2000 Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999-2000 Regents Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998-1999 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Predoctoral Research Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998-1999 Research Fellowship, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Teaching Fellowship, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1996, 1997, 1998 Conference Travel Grant, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1996, 1998, 2000 Humanities/Social Sciences Research Grant, Graduate Division, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1995, 1996, 1997 Alvina S. Barrett Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 1991-1992 University Scholar, Brigham Young University, 1990-1991 President’s Award for Excellence, University of Arizona, 1986-1987, 1990 Regents Academic Scholarship, University of Arizona, 1986-1987, 1990 JOHNS, C.V., 17
TEACHING
Courses taught
Brigham Young University History 190R Thetean Editing and Publication History 199R Academic Internship History 200 The Historian’s Craft History 221 United States History since 1877 History 376 United States History since 1945 History 391 The United States in Vietnam, 1945-1975 History 393 U.S. Foreign Relations U.S. Foreign Relations, 1914 to the Present U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776 to the Present History 490 Capstone Research Seminar U.S. Presidency Politics & U.S. Foreign Relations Richard Nixon & U.S. Foreign Relations U.S. Foreign Relations Global Cold War Lyndon Johnson’s Foreign Policy Dwight Eisenhower’s Foreign Policy Vietnam War Democracy and Diplomacy History 498R Directed Readings Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy LGBTQ Rights and the Civil Rights Movement Global Environmental & Ecological Diplomacy CIA and the Globalization of the Cold War Ideology and Foreign Policy Supreme Court and the Constitution U.S. History during the Cold War U.S.-Latin American Relations Vietnam War History 598R Special Readings [graduate course] War and Society & Race Relations in the Military, 1945-1960 Pol. Sci. 391 Advanced Seminar on Current Issues [Washington, D.C. Seminar] Pol. Sci. 399R Academic Internship [Washington, D.C. Seminar]
Gonzaga University History 273 United States History to 1865 History 274 United States History since 1865 History 380 United States History since 1945
Antelope Valley College History 101 Western Civilization to 1715 JOHNS, C.V., 18
California State University, Northridge History 271 United States History since 1865 History 303 Themes in Western Civilization to 1500 Machiavelli and Leadership in Western Civilization to 1500
University of California, Santa Barbara History 191P Proseminar in Cold War History
Santa Barbara City College History 102 United States History since 1865
Doctoral dissertation supervision
Jeffrey Peter Crean (History, Texas A&M University), 2010-2016, “With Fear and Favor: A Rising China Threat and the Path to Normalization, 1954-1971” (committee member; Jason Parker, Department of History, Texas A&M University, chair).
Brian A.J. Clancy (History, University of Western Ontario), 2010, “A Time for Change: Clark Clifford and the Struggle to End the War in Vietnam, 1965-1968” (committee member; Andrew Johnston, Department of History, Carleton University, chair)
Harish Chandra Mehta (History, McMaster University), 2009, “‘People’s Diplomacy’: The Diplomatic Front of North Vietnam during the War against the United States, 1968-1972” (committee member; Stephen Streeter, Department of History, McMaster University, chair)
Master’s thesis supervision
Shane Mourtgos (History, Brigham Young University), 2007-2010, “Race Relations and the U.S. Military, 1948-1954” (co-chair with Matthew Mason, Department of History); thesis not completed
Benjamin E.L. Onofrio (English, Brigham Young University), 2008-2009, “American Totalitarianism in Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and The Armies of the Night” (committee member; Kristin Matthews, Department of English, chair)
Mentored graduate research projects
Andrew Skabelund (French Studies, Brigham Young University), 2011-2012, “Robert F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and the 1968 Presidential Election” (Harold B. Lee Library research grant project adviser)
Andrew Skabelund (French Studies, Brigham Young University), 2010-2011, “Leopold Senghor, Senegalese Independence, and Decolonization in Africa” (Harold B. Lee Library research grant project adviser) JOHNS, C.V., 19
Honors thesis supervision
Jessica Deal (History, Utah Valley State College), 2008, “Campus Riots: National and Local Campus Protesting after the Invasion of Cambodia” (committee member; Kathleen Brown, Department of History and Political Science, Utah Valley State College, chair)
Aaron Anderson (History Teaching, Brigham Young University), 2006-2007, “Bringing the Cold War to Life in the High School History Classroom” (chair)
Mentored undergraduate research projects
Jacob Glenn (History, Brigham Young University), 2011-2012, “Protest and the PRI: Examining U.S.- Mexican Relations, 1968-1971” (ORCA grant project adviser)
Phimmasone Michael Rattanasengchanh (History, Brigham Young University), 2008-2009, “U.S. Foreign Relations with the Hmong Tribe during the Vietnam War” (ORCA grant project adviser)
Andrew Skabelund (History, Brigham Young University), 2007-2008, “Franco-American Relations and the Algerian War for Independence” (ORCA grant project adviser)
Russell Stevenson (History, Brigham Young University), 2006-2007, “Blood Brothers: Nixon, Bangladesh, and the Rise of Radical Islam in the Asian Subcontinent” (ORCA grant project adviser)
Aaron Anderson (History Teaching, Brigham Young University), 2006-2007, “Bringing the Cold War to Life in the High School History Classroom” (ORCA grant project adviser)
Russell Stevenson (History, Brigham Young University), 2005-2006, “‘The Wart on the Hog of Vietnam’: John F. Kennedy and the Laotian Frontier” (ORCA grant project adviser)
Teaching Awards & Grants
General Education Teacher Improvement Grant, Brigham Young University, 2017 ORCA Mentoring Grant, Brigham Young University, 2006, 2007 [two awards], 2008, 2009, 2012 Excellence in Teaching Award (University Social Science Teaching Assistant of the Year), Graduate Student Association, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998 Outstanding Instructor, Office of Residential Life, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998 Academic Senate/Committee on Effective Teaching and Instructional Support Curriculum Development Grant [awarded for innovative curriculum], University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998 JOHNS, C.V., 20
DEPARTMENT SERVICE
New faculty mentor, Cacey Farnsworth, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2020- present; Cameron McCoy, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2017-2019 [accepted position as Assistant Professor of Diplomatic and Military History at the United States Air Force Academy, 2019]; Jeffrey Hardy, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2011-2017 [received CFS and promotion to Associate Professor, 2017]. Rank & Status Expectations Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2020- 2021 [responsible for drafting revised expectations–particularly for promotion from associate to full professor–for the Department’s Rank & Status document]. Search Committee, Historical Pedagogy (professional track; open rank), Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2020-2021; Open field/open rank, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2009-2010; Modern World (especially modern Europe), Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2008-2009; Europe (post-1700, especially France); Mexico/U.S. borderlands; or Africa, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2005-2006. Teaching peer reviewer, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2011, 2018, 2020, 2021 [summative reviews for Rank & Status files]. Rank & Status Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2012-2015 (chair, 2014-2015); 2016-2018 (chair, 2017-2018); 2019-2020. Faculty Development Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2006-2007; 2018-2019. Served as Faculty Awards Coordinator [responsible for selecting candidates and compiling recommendation portfolios for Department, College, and University awards]. Futures Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2016-2018; chair [proposed creation of committee; responsible for creating a strategic development and hiring plan for the Department for the next decade]. Graduate Program Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2011-2012 [responsible for drafting proposal to reconfigure the Department’s M.A. degree program for potential reinstatement by the University]. Faculty adviser, The Thetean [undergraduate edited and produced journal], Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2011-2012 (Katherine White, editor-in-chief). Russel B. Swensen Lecture and DeLamar Jensen Lecture Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2011-2012; chair [responsible for selecting speakers for the Department’s two endowed lectures for the 2012-2013 academic year]. Faculty adviser, Phi Alpha Theta, Beta Iota chapter [History honor society], Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2010-2011. Recruitment Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2007-2010 [responsible for hosting functions at national academic conferences; maintaining contact with and tracking the progress of potential candidates for tenure-track positions; strategically defining Departmental hiring needs; recommending candidates for one-year visiting professor positions; etc.]. Student Relations Committee, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2005-2006. Served as Undergraduate Studies Coordinator [responsible for dealing with academic warning, probation, and suspension issues; assessed and dealt with student grievances; approved transfer courses and major/minor course substitutions; met with and advised students about major; etc.]; member of selection committee for annual graduate and undergraduate awards. Honors Program Coordinator, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2005-2006 [responsible for approving honors theses and advising students on thesis projects]. JOHNS, C.V., 21
Internship Coordinator, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2005-2006 [responsible for supervision of graduate and undergraduate internships for history majors]. Department representative, University New Student Orientation Program, Brigham Young University, 2005. Graduate Studies Committee, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997- 1998 [served as the graduate student member of the Department committee overseeing the graduate program curriculum and requirements].
COLLEGE SERVICE
Constitution Day Committee, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University, 2020-present. College Awards Committee, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University, 2018-2019. Dean’s Faculty Panel, University Freshman Orientation Program, College of Letters and Sciences, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998 (invited).
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
International Relations Faculty Committee, International Relations major, Brigham Young University, 2004-present (invited). Faculty Director, Brigham Young University Washington, D.C. Seminar, 2015-2016. Grant proposal reviewer, Office of Research and Creative Activities, Brigham Young University, 2007, 2009, 2012. Library and Scholarly Communications Advisory Council, Brigham Young University, 2008-2011 (appointed). Served as College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences representative.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & ACTIVITIES
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Editor, Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review, 2011- present (appointed). Teaching Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2011-present (ex officio as editor of Passport). Council, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2019-2021 (elected). Conference Contingency Planning Task Force (COVID-19), Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2020 (appointed). Joint Steering Committee, “Historians and Public Engagement Workshop,” co-sponsored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 2019 (invited). Nominating Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2015-2017; chair 2017 (elected). JOHNS, C.V., 22
Local Arrangements Chair, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations conference, San Diego, CA, June 2016 (appointed). With Kathryn Statler, University of San Diego. Director, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Summer Institute, “‘The Tocqueville Oscillation’: The Intersection of Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy,” June 2015 (appointed). With Mitchell Lerner, The Ohio State University. SHAFR.org Oversight Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2013-2014 (appointed). Editorial Board, SHAFR.org [official web site for the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations], 2009-2011 (appointed; founding member). Stuart L. Bernath Dissertation Grant Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2005-2007; chair, 2007 (appointed). Lawrence Gelfand-Armin Rappaport Dissertation Fellowship Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2005-2007; chair 2007 (appointed).
Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
Council, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, 2017-2022 (elected; ex officio as president-elect & president, 2017-2019; voting member as past president, 2019-2022). PCB Presidents’ Graduate Student Travel Award Committee, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, 2019-2022; chair, 2022. Executive Committee, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, 2017-2020 (statutory member as president-elect, president, and immediate past president). PCB-AHA Distinguished Service Award Committee, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, 2018-2020; chair (appointed; proposed creation of award, 2018). Constitution and By-Laws Revision Committee, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, 2018-2019; chair (appointed). President, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, 2018-2019 (elected). Charles Redd Center Graduate Student Travel Award Committee, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, 2018-2019; chair (ex officio as president). Organizer & founding donor, Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award [best monograph or edited volume in the history of U.S. foreign relations, immigration history, or military history], Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, 2018. Vice President/President-elect, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, 2017-2018 (elected). Program Committee, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association conference, Santa Clara, CA, August 2018, 2017-2018 (appointed). Program Committee, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association conference, Northridge, CA, August 2017, 2016-2017 (appointed). Pacific Coast Branch Book Award Committee, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association [outstanding first monograph], 2011-2014; chair 2014 (appointed). JOHNS, C.V., 23
United States Government
Representative/Non-Governmental Member, Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee, National Archives and Records Administration, 2018-2019 (appointed by the Archivist of the United States). Historian, Asia & Americas Division, Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002. Responsible for the research, compilation, and editing of the Foreign Relations of the United States volumes on the Nixon administration and the Vietnam conflict, 1970-1972; held top secret, codeword, and other security clearances.
Other Professional Activities
General Editor, Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace book series, University Press of Kentucky, 2011-present (invited). With George Herring, University of Kentucky; and Kathryn Statler, University of San Diego. Editorial Advisory Board, Voices and Visions [U.S. foreign relations primary source reader; vandvreader.org], 2016-present (invited). Excellence in New Media Award Committee, Society for History in the Federal Government [outstanding digital born or based historical exhibit or project], 2020-present. External tenure & promotion referee, Department of History, University of San Diego, 2004 (tenure & promotion to associate professor); Department of History, Brooklyn College, CUNY, 2014 (promotion to associate professor); Department of History, Philosophy, Political Science and Religious Studies, Indiana University Northwest, 2014 (tenure & promotion to associate professor); Department of History, California State University, Fresno, 2018 (promotion to full professor). Ellis W. Hawley Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians [best book-length historical study on the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the present], 2013-2014; chair (appointed). Faculty Advisory Board, Foundations: An Undergraduate Journal of History [national undergraduate edited and produced journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press], 2007- 2014 (invited). Yasuo Sakakibara Prize Committee, American Studies Association [best paper by an international scholar at the annual ASA conference], 2010-2012 (appointed). Consultant, KABC-TV, Los Angeles, California, 2003-2004. Provided background, thematic, and contextual information for news producers on a variety of historical and contemporary political and foreign policy issues. Executive Director, Center for Cold War Studies and International History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1996-2000; founding member, 1996. Book manuscript & book proposal reviewer, Oxford University Press; Bedford/St. Martin’s Press; Cambridge University Press; Houghton Mifflin; University Press of Kentucky; AB Longman; Pearson Higher Education; University of Massachusetts Press; McGraw-Hill; Routledge; CQ Press; ProQuest; Vanderbilt University Press; Wiley-Blackwell; Oregon State University Press. JOHNS, C.V., 24
Article manuscript reviewer, Diplomatic History; Journal of Cold War Studies; Journal of American-East Asian Relations; Peace & Change; Michigan Historical Review; The Historical Journal; International History Review; Diplomacy & Statecraft. Professional memberships: Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (life member; 1993-present); American Historical Association (1995-present); Organization of American Historians (1995-present); Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (1995-present); Society for History in the Federal Government (2009-2012, 2020- present).
REFERENCES
Academic/Scholarship
Mitchell Lerner Professor, Department of History & Mershon Center for International Security Studies Director, East Asia Studies Center The Ohio State University
Fredrik Logevall Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government Professor, Department of History Harvard University
Kenneth Osgood Professor, Liberal Arts & International Studies Director, McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs Colorado School of Mines
Andrew Preston Professor, Faculty of History Clare College, University of Cambridge
David Schmitz Robert Allen Skotheim Chair, Department of History Whitman College
Kathryn Statler Professor, Department of History University of San Diego
Jeremi Suri Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs Professor of Public Affairs and History Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Department of History University of Texas at Austin JOHNS, C.V., 25
Professional Service/Administrative
Mary Elizabeth Berry (PCB-AHA) Class of 1944 Professor of History Emerita University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Preston (SHAFR) Professor, Faculty of History Clare College, University of Cambridge
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