Education
B.A. State University of New York, Buffalo (1986)
M.A. Columbia University (1989)
Ph.D. Columbia University, Political Science (1999)
Areas of Expertise
“No Exit: America and the German Problem 1943-1954″ Cornell University Press, 2002.
“The Lost Revolution: Edward Lansdale and the American Defeat in Vietnam 1964-1968,” Small Wars and Insurgencies (2003), pp.1-26.
“A Fiasco of Noble Proportions: The Johnson Administration and the South Vietnamese Elections of 1967,” Pacific Historical Review (2004), pp.619-652.
“The Limits of Influence in Vietnam: Great Britain, the United States, and the Diem Regime, 1959-1963,” Small Wars and Insurgencies (2006), pp.22-43. Coauthored with Ian Schulte.
“Only Religions Count in Vietnam: Thich Tri Quang and the Vietnam War,” Modern Asian Studies (2007), pp.1-32.
“What Can One Man Do? Nguyen Duc Thang and the Limits of Reform in South Vietnam,” Journal of Vietnam Studies (accepted for publication, forthcoming 2008).
Courses
PSCI 162 / LEAD 127 LEC
America First? The Trump Era and the Future of World Politics (not offered 2023/24)
PSCI 263 / LEAD 242 SEM
America and the Vietnam War (not offered 2023/24)
PSCI 355 / LEAD 355 TUT
American Realism: Kennan, Kissinger and the American Style of Foreign Policy (not offered 2023/24)
PSCI 362 / LEAD 362 TUT
The Wilsonian Tradition in American Foreign Policy (not offered 2023/24)
Megamenu Social