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US and the World
Alumni
PhD. UC Santa Barbara.; B.A., M. A. CSU Fullerton
My dissertation examines the interaction of US foreign and domestic policy between the World Wars, specifically the attempt of reform-minded Americans to balance their desire to reform the world with their fear that excessive contact with a sick world would infect democracy at home. (more...)
My current project is a biography of the famous liberal Republican journalist William Allen White. Despite his trademark as the "voice of Main Street," White was a national figure who sought to advance both liberal policy and his liberal faction within the Republican Party. This project is now under contract with the University Press of Kansas.
Dissertation Title- Destiny and Democracy: Liberals, Reform and US Foreign Policy, 1919-41
Teaching Fields- US and the World
- United States History
- Latin America
- Modern Liberalism
Courses Taught- Hum 200
Western Civilization
- Hist 2c
World History since 1700
- Hist 166c
United States since 1960
Teaching Assistantships- History 17B, 17C
The American People, 1830-2009
- History 4A, 4C
Western Civilization, Prehistory to 2009
- Global Studies 2
Global Socioeconomic and Political Processes
Publications- 'A Pretty Weedy Flower:' William Allen White, Midwestern Liberalism, and the 1920s Culture War."
Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, Fall 2012.
- ‘The Balance Wheel:’ William Allen White, the Kansas Industrial Court, and the Progressive Approach to the Labor Question, 1914-1922.
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, Spring 2013.
Awards- George C. Marshall Foundation Marshall/Baruch Fellowship, 2012
"William Allen White, Liberal Republicans, and New Deal Internationalism."
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Dissertation Grant, 2010.
"Destiny and Democracy: Liberals, Reform and US Foreign Policy, 1919-1941."
- UCSB Labor and Employment Research Fund Mini-Grant, 2009
"The Progressive Subordination of Industrial Democracy, 1912-17"
- UC Labor and Employment Research Fund Mini-Grant, 2008
"A Workers’ War: Liberals, Labor, and the First World War, 1914-1922."
- Dirksen Congressional Center Congressional Research Award, 2008
"Destiny and Democracy: Liberals, Reform and US Foreign Policy, 1919-1941."
Conference Presentations- "A Pretty Weedy Flower:' Liberal Republicanism, William Allen White, and the 1920s Culture War."
Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, April 19, 2012.
- "'A Pretty Weedy Flower:' Liberals and the Culture War of the 1920s."
American Political History Conference, Boston University, April 16, 2010.
- “A Worker’s War: Liberals, Labor and Industrial Democracy, 1914-1922.”
Missouri Valley History Conference, University of Nebraska, Omaha, March 6, 2009.
- “Those Shining Days: Liberal Hopes and Realities for the First World War.”
Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, September 8, 2007
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