SHAFR 2010 Annual MeetingThursday, June 24, 2010 - 12:00pm to Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 12:00pm Conference Program:PLEASE NOTE: THE VERSION BELOW IS OUTDATED. [This copy does not include late revisions made at and prior to the conference]
THURSDAY, 24 JUNE 2010 SHAFR Council Meeting: 8:00AM – 12:45PM (Room 313) Registration & Book Exhibit: 10:00AM – 5:00PM (Lee Lounge) Teaching Committee Meeting: 11:00AM – 1:00PM (Room 111) Session I: 1:00PM – 3:00PM Panel 1: American Perceptions and Policy in the Islamic World (Room 213) Chair: Salim Yaqub, University of California-Santa Barbara Harems, Hoochie-Koochie Dancers and Terrible Turks: Race and Orientalism in the Public Debate over an American Mandate in Turkey Michael Limberg, University of Colorado-Boulder
A Tool of the Russians: Race and the Eisenhower Administration’s Introduction to Gamal Abdel Nasser, 1953-1956 Rian Bobal, Texas A&M University
Islam and US: The United States Responds to Political Islam, 1960-2010 Matthew Jacobs, University of Florida
The American Right’s Response to Middle East Crises, 1979-1981 Jay Logan Rogers, University of California-Davis Comment: Salim Yaqub
Panel 2: Roundtable: Gender and Sexuality in American Foreign Relations (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121) Moderator: Katie Sibley, St. Joseph’s University Sex and the City: Pamela Churchill, Wartime London, and the Making of the Special Relationship Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut
The Lavender Scare and Empire: Rethinking Cold War Antigay Politics Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
Haunted by Mata Hari: Espionage, Sexuality, and Gender Anxieties of the Early Cold War Veronica Wilson, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Laura McEnaney, Whittier College Robert Dean, Eastern Washington University
Panel 3: American Nation Building in Comparative Perspective (Room 235) Chair: Lloyd Ambrosius, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Postwar Nation-Building: U.S. Policy in Germany and the Lessons for the Twenty-first Century Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nation-Building for Dummies: The Lessons of the Occupation of Japan Marc Gallicchio, Villanova University
Nation Building in South Korea in a Comparative Perspective Gregg Brazinsky, George Washington University
Arrested Development: Community Development and Nation Building in the Republic of Vietnam during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years Geoffrey Stewart, University of Western Ontario Comment: Klaus Schwabe, University of Technology at Aachen, emeritus
Panel 4: Roundtable: Using Digitized Documents in Teaching: The University of Wisconsin’s Foreign Relations of the United States Series (Room 335) Sponsored by the SHAFR Teaching Committee Chair: Mark A. Stoler, University of Vermont
Creating, Developing and Improving the Digital FRUS at the University of Wisconsin Vicki Tobias, University of Wisconsin Libraries
Using the Digital FRUS in Teaching the History of U.S. Foreign Relations Brian Clancy, University of Western Ontario Robert Morrison, University of Colorado, Boulder Nicole Phelps, University of Vermont Richard Hume Werking, U.S. Naval Academy Comment: the audience and panel
Panel 5: Race and the International System during the Cold War (Room 309) Chair: Thomas Borstelmann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Race, Labor and Security in the Panama Canal Zone: The 1946 Greaves Rape Case, Local 713, and the Isthmian Cold War Crackdown Michael Donoghue, Marquette University
Crimes against Humanity in the Congo: Nazi Legacies and the German Cold War in Africa Katrina Hagen, Harvard University
For a Better Guinea! Winning Hearts and Minds in Portuguese Guinea Luís Nuno Rodrigues, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute Comment: Daniel Byrne, University of Evansville
Panel 6: American Conservatism and the Politics of the Cold War (Room 226) Chair: Campbell Craig, University of Southampton Supporting the “World’s Most Self-Deluded Observers”: Understanding the Evolution of the Conservative Movement’s Early Vietnam Positions Seth Offenbach, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Peace through Profit: The Military-Industrial Complex, Grassroots Conservatism, and the Fall of Détente Michael Brenes, Graduate Center, City University of New York
An Unexamined Connection: The Profound Relationship between Religion, Capitalism and Anti-Communism in the Mid-Twentieth Century American Right James McKay, University of Wisconsin-Madison Comment: Campbell Craig
Panel 7: Challenges to Partnerships in the 1960s (Room 220) Chair: Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University Nature and Nurture: The Effort to Forge a U.S.-India Strategic Partnership, 1963-1965 Tanvi Madan, University of Texas at Austin
NATO’s Nuclear Fear: Confronting the New Nuclear Reality in the 1960s Mark Rice, Ohio State University
The Dragon, the Eagle and the Rooster: The Effect of French Recognition of China on American Diplomacy Katherine Klinefelter, University of Colorado at Boulder Comment: Thomas A. Schwartz
Panel 8: Twisting the Lion’s Tail? Peace Factors in Anglo-American Relations, 1853-1862 (Room 205) Chair: Robert E. May, Purdue University The United States and the Crimean War: The International Context of a Global War Niels Eichhorn, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
William Walker’s Filibuster: Anglo-American Relations in Nicaragua Jon Flashnick, Arizona State University
Confederate Misery: Egyptian Cotton, Manchester Cotton Interests, and Confederate Hopes for British Recognition, 1861-1862 Shawn McAvoy, Arizona State University Comment: Robert E. May
Panel 9: Burmese and American Interactions in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Room 217) Chair: Robert McMahon, Ohio State University “Indians” of the East and West: Early 19th Century Missionary Intelligence and the Civilizing Mission in Burma and America William Womack, Samford University
The Trial for High Treason of the “Burma Surgeon,” Gordon S. Seagrave Kenton Clymer, Northern Illinois University
Reminiscences of the 1988 Uprising in Burma and of the U.S. Policy Response Ambassador Burton Levin, Carleton College; U.S. Ambassador to Burma, 1987-1990 Comment: Robert McMahon
BREAK: 3:00PM – 3:30PM Refreshments served in the Lee Lounge
Session II: 3:30PM – 5:30 PM Panel 10: Beyond “Chaps and Maps”: A Roundtable on Publishing International History (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121) Chair: Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago, series editor, Cornell University Press Susan Ferber, Oxford University Press Charles Grench, University of North Carolina Press Kathleen McDermott, Harvard University Press Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin, series editor, Princeton University Press Comment: the audience
Panel 11: Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance and the Vietnam War (Room 220) Chair: David B. Cortright, University of Notre Dame “A Symbol of the Antiwar Movement in the Service”: Drug Use and GI Resistance in Vietnam Jeremy Kuzmarov, University of Tulsa
Vietnam and the Global GI Underground Press Derek Seidman, Brown University
American Deserters and International Protest Movements during the Vietnam War Paul Benedikt Glatz, Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, Graduate School of North American Studies Comment: David B. Cortright
Panel 12: Roundtable: A Mid-Century Crusade: Religious Influences on the Foreign Policies of Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower (Room 335) Chair: Paul Boyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison William Inboden, The Legatum Institute Seth Jacobs, Boston College Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge Commentators: Wilson Miscamble, University of Notre Dame Paul Boyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Panel 13: Africa, 1960-1980: Foreign Aid, Civil War and the Legacy of the Cold War (Room 213) Chair: Rob Rakove, Old Dominion University Kennedy Administration Foreign Aid Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa Lorella Tosone, University of Perugia
Aid, Arms, and the Biafran War: Israel, Nigeria, and the Secessionists, 1967-1970 Zach Levey, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Past is Another Country: The Rhodesian War and Memory Sue Onslow, Kings College Comment: Toby Glyn, Queen Mary, University of London
Panel 14: The Transnational Kissinger (Room 225) Chair: Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University Kissinger, the Shah, and the Kurds of Iraq, 1972-1975 Roham Alvandi, University of Oxford
Henry Kissinger and the Myth of Ceausescu the Maverick: U.S.-Romanian Relations, 1974-1976 Eliza Gheorghe, Georgetown University
Neo-Metternich Meets Transnational Civil Society: Henry Kissinger, Civil Society Networks, and the Helsinki Final Act, 1972-1977 Kai Hebel, University of Oxford
The Overdose of Anti-Americanism in Turkey: Henry Kissinger, Opium, and the Arms Embargo, 1974-1977 Barin Kayaoglu, University of Virginia Comment: Thomas A. Schwartz
Panel 15: The Diplomacy of Immigration: Transpacific Case Studies (Room 309) Chair: Mary Lui, Yale University Imagining the “Great White Fleet”: Anti-Asian Immigration Restriction, the White New Zealand Policy, and the United States, 1908 David Atkinson, Boston University
Bringing “The Best Type of Chinese” to America: Refugee Migration and U.S. Cold War Outreach in East Asia Madeline Hsu, University of Texas at Austin
Nation-Building from Home: Reconsidering the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 Joyce Mao, Middlebury College Comment: Mary Lui
Panel 16: The U.S. Embassy in London, 1938-2008: 70 Years in Grosvenor Square (Room 217) Chair: Jeffrey A. Engel, Texas A&M University Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, 1938-1940 J. Simon Rofe, University of Leicester John Hay Whitney, 1957-1961 Tom Mills, Brunel University Raymond George Hardenbergh Seitz, 1991-1994 Alison Holmes, Yale University Comment: the audience
Panel 17: Building Interest and Sustaining Support: The Role of Public Opinion in U.S. Foreign Policy during the Early American Republic (Room 205) Chair: Lelia M. Roeckell, Molloy College
The Mary Carver Affair: How and Why the United States Created an Africa Squadron (and no, it wasn’t to suppress the slave trade) Amy VanNatter, Bronx Community College, CUNY
“You defend one class, but oppose another”: Re-evaluating the Embargo of 1807 Jordan Stancil, Paris Institute of Political Studies
Opium, Anxiety, and British Power: How American Fears of British Hegemony Led to the First Diplomatic Mission to China Dael Norwood, Princeton University Comment: John Belohlavek, University of South Florida
Panel 18: The Revolutionary Moment in the Middle East, 1968-1970 (Room 235) Chair: Douglas Little, Clark University
Diverging Visions of Détente: The U.S., Israel, and the Pursuit of a Middle Eastern Settlement, 1957-1967 Avshalom Rubin, University of Chicago
Battling the Enemy on all Fronts: The Evolution of the PLO’s Revolutionary Guerilla Strategies Paul Chamberlin, Williams College
The Libyan Revolution and U.S. Energy Security, 1969-1971 Christopher Dietrich, University of Texas-Austin
A Revolutionary Crisis? The U.S., the PLO and Lebanon, 1967-1970 James Stocker, Graduate Institute of Geneva Comment: James Goode, Grand Valley State University
Opening Reception sponsored by the Women’s Committee, 5:45PM – 7:00PM (Alumni Lounge) First time attendees and graduate students are especially invited to come to this informal gathering, where everyone can enjoy refreshments and time to get acquainted.
Plenary Session, 7:00 PM – 9:00PM (Rooms 325 & 326) William Appleman Williams: The Tragedy of American Diplomacy a Half-Century Later Chair: Marilyn Young, New York University
Triumph or Tragedy? Reassessing William A. Williams, the “Radical Left,” and American Foreign Policy Walter Hixson, The University of Akron
Confronting a Revolutionary World: William Appleman Williams and Latin America Greg Grandin, New York University Commentators: Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Walter LaFeber, Cornell University Thomas McCormick, University of Wisconsin-Madison
FRIDAY, 25 JUNE 2010 Registration & Book Exhibit: 8:00AM – 5:00PM (Lee Lounge) Refreshments: 7:00AM – 9:00AM (Lee Lounge) DH Editorial Board Meeting: 7:30AM – 9:00AM (Room 111) Breakfast Session – Research Opportunities at the National Archives: 7:00AM – 8:45AM (Room 313) Sponsored by the Diversity Committee David Langbart, Senior Archivist, National Archives and Record Administration, will provide an overview of how to conduct research in the variety of records related to foreign relations, and devote substantial time to answering questions about research projects.
Session III: 9:00AM – 11:00AM Panel 19: Cold War Nationalism and the Battle for the Western Hemisphere (Room 335) Chair: James G. Hershberg, George Washington University
Balancing the Books: The Eisenhower Administration’s Response to Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba, Bolivia and Guatemala (1953-1958) Vanni Pettinà, Spanish National Research Council
Kennedy and Cuba: Reflections from Havana on a Difficult Relationship Carlos Alzugara Treto, University of Havana
“Who Lost Bolivia?” Military-led Development, Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress, and U.S. Efforts to Avoid a Second Cuba, 1962-1963 Thomas Field, London School of Economics and Political Science
Cuban Intervention in British Guiana: The Sugar Workers’ Strike of 1964 Robert Anthony Waters, Jr., Ohio Northern University Comment: James G. Hershberg
Panel 20: American Jews and Foreign Affairs in the 20th Century (Room 220) Chair: Michelle Mart, Penn State University, Berks
“Fight for Us!” American Jewish Support for Japan in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05 Mina Muraoka, Brandeis University
American Jews and the Challenges of Transnational Philanthropy: The JDC, the ARA, and American Foreign Policy in Eastern Europe, 1919-21 Sonja P. Wentling, Concordia College
New York Jews, City Politics, and Global Values: Constructing a Municipal Diplomacy in the 1950s and early 1960s Jeffrey Taffet, United States Merchant Marine Academy Comment: Adam Howard, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Panel 21: Roundtable: Federal Historians and the Profession: Programs and Employment Opportunities for Historians of U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Fields (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121) Moderator: David Herschler, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Richard Stewart, Chief Historian, Army Center for Military History Chris Tudda, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State William (Bill) Williams, Chief, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency Michael Warner, Chief Historian, Office of the Director for National Intelligence John Powers, Interagency Security Oversight Office (ISOO)
Panel 22: A Rise to Globalism? Domestic Roots of United States Expansion (Room 309) Chair: Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
Inventing the Multinational Corporation: The New Deal and Postwar Capitalism Jason Scott Smith, University of New Mexico
Translation at Home: Emotions, Memories and the Social Constitution of the “Reality” of the Cold War in the United States, 1946-1950 Masuda Hajimu, Cornell University
Authorizing the American Century: The Mass Politics of Globalism, 1941-1950 James T. Sparrow, University of Chicago Comment: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia
Panel 23: Conscription and Conscience: Crises of American Citizenship, 1964-1980 (Room 226) Chair: Robbie Lieberman, Southern Illinois University
God Alone is the Lord of Conscience: Conscientious Objection and American Protestants during the Vietnam War George A. Bogaski, University of Oklahoma
“I knew I wanted those classes”: Americans in Canadian Universities in the Vietnam War Era Donald W. Maxwell, Indiana University
Jimmy Carter and the Reinstatement of Draft Registration Jason Friedman, Michigan State University Comment: Robbie Lieberman
Panel 24: Transnational Currents in International Waters: Workers, the United States’ Land Borders and Governmental Control of Transborder Migration Patterns, 1920s-1940s (Room 225) Chair: Richard Wiggers, Royal Military College, Toronto The Alien Commuter Controversy along the U.S.-Canada Border during the 1920s Thomas A. Klug, Marygrove College
The Lumberjack Wars: Temporary Workers and the Wartime Canadian-American Border Angelika Sauer, Texas Lutheran University
El Paso/The Passage: The El Paso Incident and the Politics of Mobility at the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1948 Cristina Salinas, University of Texas-Austin
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Tracing the Vanishing WWII Migrant Contract Worker Programs Luis F.B. Plascencia, Arizona State University Comment: Richard Wiggers
Panel 25: Origins of the Non-proliferation Regime in the Cold War (Room 205) Chair: Sarah-Jane Corke, Dalhousie University
Paving the Way for Arms Control: Eisenhower and the Test-Ban Treaty Benjamin Greene, United States Naval Academy
The Caution of History: John F. Kennedy, the Test Ban, and the International Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime Brandon Gauthier, Fordham University
The Design of a Non-Proliferation Treaty: 1966-1968 Dane Swango, University of California Los Angeles Comment: Richard Filipink, Western Illinois University
Panel 26: The Hidden Hand: Race and the State in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations (Room 213) Chair: Thomas Borstelmann, University of Nebraska Alain Locke and Post World War I American Imperial Relations Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania
Blinded by the White: India and the NAACP’s Alliance to End Racial Oppression in South Africa, 1946-1951 Carol Anderson, Emory University
Color, Colorblindness, and the Dominican Crisis of 1965 Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Comment: Thomas Borstelmann
Panel 27: The Politics of Human Rights: Advocates, Opponents and Skeptics, 1967-1980 (Room 235) Chair: Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University Anti-Torture Politics: Amnesty International, the Greek Junta, and the Origins of the Human Rights Boom in the United States Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne
A Dangerous Place? Opposition to Human Rights in the UN Roland Burke, La Trobe University
Opponents Within: Contested Visions of Human Rights at the U.S. State Department Vanessa Walker, University of Wisconsin, Madison Comment: Steve J. Stern, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Luncheon: 11:00AM – 1:00PM (Alumni Lounge – Pre-registration required) Empires of the Senses: How Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Touching and Tasting Shaped Imperial Encounters Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University, SHAFR President
Session IV: 1:00PM – 3:00PM
Panel 28: Economic Diplomacy in the Age of New Imperialism: Rethinking Late Nineteenth Century Anglo-American Relations (Room 220) Chair: Edward P. Crapol, College of William and Mary Imperialism, Federation, and Unity: The Global Impact of the 1890 McKinley Tariff Upon the British Empire, 1890-1894 Marc-William Palen, University of Texas at Austin
The Pan-American Lobbyist and Anglo-Saxon Empire, 1884-93 Benjamin Coates, Columbia University
The Other Cross of Gold: The United States, Britain, and the Diplomacy of Development, 1888-1893 John Taylor Vurpillat, University of Texas at Austin Comment: Edward P. Crapol
Panel 29: Roundtable: Expanding Diplo-Universe and the “Born Digital” Revolution: Fundamental Issues of Scope and Documentation Facing International Historians (Room 235) William McAllister, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne
Panel 30: Roundtable: The Vietnam War through East European Eyes: New Evidence from former Communist Archives (Room 335) Chair: Malcolm Byrne, National Security Archive
Warsaw, Hanoi, and the International Control Commission Margaret K. Gnionska, George Washington University
“Without a doubt, the situation has been radicalized!” Poland, the International Control Commission and the December 1966 Hanoi Bombing Controversy James G. Hershberg, George Washington University
“Over the Hills and Far Away”: Romania’s Attempts to Mediate the Start of U.S.-DRV Negotiations, 1967-1968 Mircea Munteanu, George Washington University/Cold War International History Project
East Germany and the Vietnam War Bernd Schaefer, Cold War International History Project Comment: David Anderson, California State University, Monterey Bay
Panel 31: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy toward Japan, 1952-1968 (Room 213) Chair: Kenneth A. Osgood, Florida Atlantic University
Controlling Japan: U.S. Alliance Diplomacy, 1952-54 Tomoki Kuniyoshi, Waseda University
William Faulkner’s 1955 Visit to Japan: A Case of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy Fumiko Fujita, Tsuda College
Reischauer Offensive: Scholar-Ambassador’s Challenge to Japanese Leftist Historians, 1961-66 Midori Yoshii, Albion College
U. Alexis Johnson and the Return to “Quiet Diplomacy”, 1966-68 Fintan Hoey, Queen’s University, Belfast and University College, Dublin Comment: Emily Rosenberg, University of California at Irvine
Panel 32: Foreign Affairs: Toward a History of Outsider Diplomacy in 20th Century America (Room 226) Chair: Adam Howard, Department of State & George Washington University
Raising Pan Americans: Mexican and American Women of the Mesas Redondas Panamericanas de México/The Pan American Round Table Dina Berger, Loyola University Chicago
“Helping Others to Help Ourselves”: The American Federation of Labor and the Jewish Labor Committee’s Accidental Boycott for Unity Rachel Feinmark, University of Chicago
Desegregating Military Life: The Wives and Families of Servicemen in Germany after World War II Emily Swafford, University of Chicago Ian Fleming and Allen Dulles: Fictions, Facts, and Empires Jonathan Nashel, Indiana University, South Bend Comment: Adam Howard
Panel 33: Transborder Resources and Environmental Policy (Room 205) Chair: Michelle Mart, Penn State University, Berks
Oilmen and Cactus Rustlers: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Building of a Regional Empire, 1890-1930 Jessica Kim, University of Southern California
Crossing into Zona Prohibida: Transborder History of Americans in Baja California, Mexico Sara Fingal, Brown University
Creating the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: American-Canadian Environmental Diplomacy, 1949-1954 Daniel MacFarlane, University of Ottawa Comment: Michelle Mart
Panel 34: The United States and the “Periphery”: American Cold War Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Middle East (Room 309) Chair: Thomas Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder
Winter in Tehran, Springtime Abroad: American Foreign Policy, Iranian Student Dissent, and the Global Sixties, 1967-1969 Matthew Shannon, Temple University
“Go Line Them Up.” Constructing Empire: The United States in Latin America, 1945-1955 Matthew Jacobs, Ohio University
The Migration of Knowledge: European Orientalists and Developing Perceptions of Islam in the United States during the Cold War Robert Morrison, University of Colorado at Boulder Comment: Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University
Panel 35: Post-Colonial States and Nation Building (Room 225) Chair: Dirk Bönker, Duke University
“Sovereignty in the service of empire”: Promoting the Independent Republic of Liberia, 1846-1853 Brandon Mills, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Military Suburbanization: Exploring U.S. Cold War Imperialism in the Marshall Islands Lauren Hirshberg, University of Michigan
“Africa’s Czechoslovakia”?: Angola, 1975-76 Candace Sobers, University of Toronto
The U.S. and Namibian Independence Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town, South Africa Comment: Dirk Bönker
Panel 36: Nonstate Actors and U.S.-Korean Relations (Room 217) Chair: Stephen Mak, Northwestern University
File—Do Not Respond!: The 1919 Korean Independence Movement Hannah Kim, University of Delaware-Newark
A War of Inclusion and Exclusion Christine Knauer, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Underdevelopment of American Studies in South Korea Jooyoung Lee, Brown University Comment: Stephen Mak
Panel 37: Migration Histories and U.S. Foreign Policy (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121) Chair: Donna Gabaccia, University of Minnesota
Gentlemen’s Agreements: Class, Migration and Empire in Trans-Pacific History Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University
A Place to Stand: Arab Americans and U.S. Foreign Relations in the 1970s Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara
U.S. Asylum Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: Balancing Humanitarian Obligations and Security Concerns Maria Cristina Garcia, Cornell University
Comment: Donna Gabaccia
BREAK: 3:00PM – 3:30PM Refreshments in the Lee Lounge
Session V: 3:30PM – 5:30PM Panel 38: The United States and its Foreign Terrains of Empire in the Gilded Age, 1865-1910 (Room 205) Chair: Joseph A. Fry, University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Resurrecting Reconstruction: Republican Policymakers, the Legacy of the Postbellum South, and Liberal Modernization in the Early U.S. Occupied Philippines Gary H. Darden, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Expansionism, Imperialism, and Colonialism: Debating Empire after the Civil War, 1865-1877 Andrew Priest, Aberystwyth University
The Demands of the Nineteenth Century: White Southerners Construct Home Rule at Home and Abroad Eric Weber, Duke University
Comment: Joseph A. Fry
Panel 39: Roundtable: Teaching the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: 2008 SHAFR Institute Participants Reflect on their Classroom Experiences (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121) Chair: Peter Hahn, Ohio State University Jungle and Desert: Comparing the Vietnam and Iraq Wars in the Classroom Fabian Hilfrich, University of Edinburgh
Challenges of Teaching Afghanistan and Iraq in the Broader Context of U.S.-Middle East Relations Matthew Jacobs, University of Florida
Sourcing and Teaching the “Slam Dunk” Episode Christopher Jespersen, North Georgia College and State University
Remind Me Why I Thought This Would Be a Good Idea? Creating the Course Syllabus Molly Wood, Wittenberg University
Comment: the audience
Panel 40: The United States and Britain in the Indian Ocean: Regional Security and Global Strategy in the Cold War (Room 220) Chair: Michael A. Palmer, East Carolina University The United States, Great Britain and Regional Challenges to the British Indian Ocean Territory, 1965-1980 W. Taylor Fain, University of North Carolina-Wilmington
“No Scope for Arms Control”: Strategic Vision and Naval Limitations in the Indian Ocean, ca. 1970-1975 Peter John Brobst, Ohio University
Sir Philip Mitchell and the Indian Ocean, 1946-1949 James R. Brennan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Comment: Michael A. Palmer
Panel 41: The U.S. Congress and the Early Cold War (Room 309) Chair: Andrew Johns, Brigham Young University “Whose Prerogative?” The Conflict between the Conservative Right in the Senate and the Executive over the Constitutional Power in U.S. Foreign Policy Making, 1950-54 James Blackstone, University of Cambridge
Mission Impossible: The “Voice of America”, Congress, the Truman Administration, and the Battle over the Smith-Mundt Act, 1946-1948 Terry Hamblin, SUNY Delhi
Isolationists, Internationalists and U.S. Policy toward Egypt, 1952-1956 Guy Laron, Northwestern University Comment: Chester Pach, Ohio University
Panel 42: Roundtable: Empire in America: Expanding and Crossing Borders (Room 235) Moderator: Walter LaFeber, Cornell University Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mariola Espinosa, Yale University Alfred W. McCoy, University of Wisconsin, Madison Anne L. Foster, Indiana State University Comment: the audience
Panel 43: Triangular Cooperative Disagreement: Cuba-Canada-United States Relations, 1959-1966 (Room 225) Chair: Robert Anthony Waters, Jr., Ohio Northern University Canada, the United States and Cuba: The Triangular Relationship through Cuban Diplomatic History, 1959-1962 Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez, University of Havana
“Quite Relaxed”: Canada and U.S. Policy toward Cuba, 1959-1962 Asa McKercher, Library and Archives Canada
Moving From Friction to Cooperation: Canadian-American Relations and Revolutionary Cuba 1959-1966 John M. Dirks, University of Toronto Comment: John Prados, National Security Archive
Panel 44: Before and After: Comparing the Pre-Presidential and Presidential Rhetoric of FDR, LBJ, and RMN (Room 226) Chair: Martin Medhurst, Baylor University
FDR’s Rhetorical Narrative of National Insecurity Ira Chernus, University of Colorado-Boulder
Exchanging Rhetoric for Reality: Lyndon Johnson’s Shifting Foreign Policy Ideology Nicole Anslover, Indiana University-Northwest
Richard Nixon’s Pre-presidential Rhetoric of Anti-communism Marta Rzepecka, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Comment: Martin Medhurst
Panel 45: Exporting Liberty and Securing Slavery in American Foreign Relations, 1815-1873 (Room 217) Chair: Daniel Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College Slave Trade versus Slave Empire: Henry Wise’s Ministry to Brazil, 1844-1847 Matthew Karp, University of Pennsylvania
General Jackson’s Passports: Travel Rights, Gun Rights and the Safety of the (Slaveowning) People Jason M. Opal, McGill University
“To Strike a Blow at Slavery Wherever it May Exist”: Frederick Douglass, Santo Domingo and the Foreign Policy of Anti-Slavery, 1870-1873 Christopher Wilkins, Stanford University Comment: Daniel Margolies
Panel 46: Rethinking Colonialism and the Cold War: Perspectives from Moscow, Manchester and Geneva (Room 335) Chair: Carol Anderson, Emory University American Anticolonialism in Interwar Moscow: Rethinking Race, Migration and the Global Cold War Ani Mukherji, Brown University
Manchester, 1945: An East-West, North-South Crossroads John Munro, Simon Fraser University
The Geneva Conference of 1954 and U.S.-China Relations Tao Wang, Georgetown University Comment: Rachel Buff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Panel 47: Roundtable: Shock of the Global? Rethinking the International History of the 1970s (Room 213) Moderator: Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University Erez Manela, Harvard University Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, University of Kentucky Vernie Oliveiro, Harvard University Daniel Sargent, University of California, Berkeley
SATURDAY, 26 JUNE 2010 Registration & Book Exhibit: 8:00AM – 5:00PM (Lee Lounge) Membership Committee Meeting: 7:30AM – 9:00AM (Room 320) Refreshments: 8:00AM – 9:00AM (Lee Lounge)
Session VI: 9:00AM – 11:00AM Panel 48: So a Kangaroo, a Shark and a Zookeeper Go Into an Embassy . . . : Animals and American Foreign Relations (Room 220) Chair: Janet M. Davis, University of Texas at Austin The Cold War and the Militarization of American Zoo Keeping John M. Kinder, Oklahoma State University
Pacific Pets: Animal Exchange and Imagery in American-Australian Relations, 1908 Robert Chase, University of California, Irvine
A Menacing Menagerie: The Dehumanization and Destruction of U.S.-Cuban Relations, 1959-1965 Blair Woodard, University of New Mexico Comment: Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu, Michigan State University
Panel 49: Military Culture and U.S. Foreign Relations in the 20th Century (Room 225) Chair: Michael Sherry, Northwestern University Global Militarization and U.S. Pursuits of Force: Rethinking American Navalism in the Progressive Era Dirk Bönker, Duke University
Building America’s “9-1-1- Force”: The Cultural Origins of Marine Corps’ Amphibious Force in Readiness Aaron B. O’Connell, U.S. Naval Academy
Imagining NATO in the 1950s Carolyn V. Davidson, Yale University Comment: Michael Sherry
Panel 50: Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective (Room 309) Chair: Phil E. Muehlenbeck, George Washington University The Western Allies, German Churches, and the Emerging Cold War in Germany, 1945-1952 JonDavid K. Wyneken, Grove City College
Rising to the Occasion: The Role of American Missionaries and Korean Pastors in Resisting Communism and Preserving the Korean Church throughout the Korean War Kai Yin Allison Haga, National Sun Yat-Sen University
Religion, Power, and Legitimacy in Ngo Dinh Diem’s Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1963 Jessica Chapman, Williams College Comment: David Zietsma, Redeemer University College
Panel 51: Roundtable: Finding Common Ground: Asian American Studies and U.S. Foreign Relations Research (Room 213) Moderator: Gregg Brazinsky, George Washington University
Internationalism and Antiracism in the Japanese Immigration Crisis Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California Dong Kingman: The Chinese American Artist as Cold War Goodwill Ambassador Mary Lui, Yale University
The Heartland in Saigon and the Saigon In…Detroit: The Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group Project as Recovered Asian American History, 1954-1960 Victor Jew, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Constructing Internationalism: Vietnamese Agency, Print Media and the Antiwar Movement Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, The Ohio State University
Panel 52: Roundtable: Educational Exchange and the Writing of International History (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121) Chair: Whitney Walton, Purdue University Richard Garlitz, University of Tennessee at Martin Liping Bu, Alma College Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, San Diego State University Lisa Jarvinen, LaSalle University Hongshan Li, Kent State University at Tuscarawas Shuji Otsuka, Northwestern University Comment: the audience
Panel 53: Partnerships, Political Warfare and Dissent: The Trials of U.S.-Italian Relations during the Cold War (Room 217) Chair: Steven F. White, Mount St. Mary’s College Confronting Communism through “Means Short of War”: The United States, Italy & Political Warfare in the Early Cold War Kaeten Mistry, University of Warwick
The United States and the De Gasperi Enigma Mario Del Pero, University of Bologna
Taming Dissent: The United States, Anti-Americanism, and the Italian Center-Left Governments, 1958-1978 Alessandro Brogi, University of Arkansas Comment: Leopoldo Nuti, University of Rome III
Panel 54: Black Internationalism and Cold War Dissent (Room 226) Chair: Gerald Horne, University of Houston The Old Left and Transnational Solidarity Politics in the 1960s and 1970s Dayo F. Gore, University of Massachusetts
Mississippi Mau Mau: Medgar Evers and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1952-1963 Kristin R. Henze, University of Missouri
“Uptight in Babylon”: Eldridge Cleaver’s Cold War Sean L. Malloy, University of California, Merced Comment: Gerald Horne
Panel 55: Crossing Trans-Atlantic Boundaries in the Early American Period, 1787-1800 (Room 205) Chair: Chris Tudda, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Publius’s Guile and the Paranoid Style Joseph Parent, University of Miami
Virginia’s Trans-Atlantic Economic Priorities in the Ratification of the Constitution, 1788 Stephanie Hurter Williams, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
The XYZ Affair, Public Opinion, and the Early American Presidency Christopher Young, Indiana University Northwest Comment: Chris Tudda
Panel 56: Modernization, Environment and Poverty: U.S. Solutions during the Cold War (Room 235) Chair: Nick Cullather, Indiana University at Bloomington
“Soon it All Became Commonplace”: Discovering “Global Poverty” in Nehru’s India Sheyda Jahanbani, University of Kansas
Mixing Diplomatic and Environmental History: The U.S., DDT, and Nepal, 1952-1972 Thomas Robertson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Listening to Alternative Voices from America’s First War on Drugs: Integrating Oral Histories with Archival Documents in the Study of Turkey’s 1970s Eradication of the Opium Poppy Kyle Evered, Michigan State University Comment: Nick Cullather
Luncheon: 11:00AM – 1:00PM (Alumni Lounge – Pre-registration required) Foreign Relations: Immigration History as International History Donna R. Gabaccia, Director, Immigration History Research Center, Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair of Immigration History Research and Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities (2009-2010), University of Minnesota
Session VII: 1:00PM – 3:00PM Panel 57: School of Hard Knocks: Cultural Studies of U.S. Relations with Cuba (Room 205) Chair: Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University
Between Admiration and Indignation: The Career of Kid Chocolate and Cuban Perceptions of the United States, 1928-1933 Enver M. Casimir, University of North Carolina
“An ounce of education is worth more than a pound of gun powder”: The American Central School and Cuba’s Isle of Pines Michael E. Neagle, University of Connecticut
The Lingering Problem of Tío Sam: Castroist Perspectives on the History of U.S. Interventions in Cuba Jared Ross Hardesty, Boston College Comment: Michael Donoghue, Marquette University
Panel 58: New Perspectives on U.S.-Iraq Relations under Saddam (Room 213) Chair: Jessica Huckabey, Conflict Records Research Center
“This Stab in the Back”: Saddam Hussein, Irangate and the United States Hal Brands, Institute for Defense Analyses
Understanding Saddam’s Non-Use of WMD in the Gulf War David Palkki, University of California at Los Angeles and Institute for Defense Analyses
Saddam’s Perceptions and Misperceptions: The Case of Desert Storm Kevin Woods, Institute for Defense Analyses Comment: Thomas Mahnken, U.S. Naval War College and Johns Hopkins University
Panel 59: The Two Germanys in Transatlantic Relations, 1975-1990 (Room 225) Chair: Bernd Schaefer, Cold War International History Project From Wende to Wende: Helmut Kohl, Deutschlandpolitik, and Transatlantic Relations in the 1980s Ronald J. Granieri, University of Pennsylvania
The Carter-Schmidt Split: Explaining the Deterioration of Relations between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany during the Carter Administration Tony Crain, Ohio State University
Basket III as “Human-Rights-Demagoguery Hostile to Détente”: The German Democratic Republic and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), 1975-1989 Douglas Selvage, Office of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records, Berlin Comment: William Gray, Purdue University
Panel 60: Transpacific Contact Zones: New Perspectives on Asia and America during the Second World War and the Cold War (Room 235) Chair: Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California
Imagining Hawai‘i in Japan during WWII Yujin Yaguchi, University of Tokyo
Negotiating Hollywood, Inventing America: Movie Consumption as a Transnational Practice in Post-World War II Japan, 1945-1960 Hiroshi Kitamura, The College of William and Mary
Paradise Found: Indonesia in the Surfing Imagination Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota-Duluth Comment: Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University
Panel 61: Dissent against the Vietnam War (Room 226) Chair: Hannah Gurman, New York University
Radical Revision vs. Escalation: George Ball’s Vietnam Dissent Hannah Gurman, New York University
“Hating the Eel, but Loving the Soup”: Discourse on the Vietnam War and American Influence in Thailand Sudina Paungpetch, Texas A&M University
“Abolish the Peace Corps”: The Vietnam War and the Committee of Returned Volunteers in the Development Decade Molly Geidel, Boston University Comment: Jessica Chapman, Williams College
Panel 62: Diplomacy without Diplomats: Non-state Actors and U.S.-Philippine Relations during the 20th Century (Room 217) Chair: Mark Bradley, University of Chicago
“We Have a Responsibility Here. . . Unequaled Anywhere”: The American Colonial State and Private Reform in the Philippines, 1898-1946 Stefanie Bator, Northwestern University
“The World Brotherhood of Freedom-Loving Nations”: Constructing a Cold War Democracy in the Philippines Colleen Woods, University of Michigan
The “Broads from Abroad”: American Actresses Star in the Postcolonial Philippines Michael Hawkins, University of California, Riverside Comment: Anne L. Foster, Indiana State University
Panel 63: U.S. Alliances in the Cold War: Diverging Perspectives on the Relationships with Germany and Korea (Room 326) Chair: James I. Matray, California State University, Chico
Power and Culture in the U.S. Relationship with South Korea, 1945-1966 William Stueck, University of Georgia
U.S. Nation Building, Power and Culture in Postwar Germany Holger Lowendorf, Temple University Commentators: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut Robert McMahon, Ohio State University
Panel 64: American Society and Transborder Migratory Metis Peoples: The Politics of National Boundary Marking and the Politics of State Citizenship (Room 309) Chair: Galen Perras, University of Ottawa
Crossing Boundaries, Making Boundaries: The Plains Métis and North American Border-Making Michel Hogue, Carleton University
Life on the Border: The Metis and Race, Citizenship, and Authenticity in the Twentieth Century Brenda Macdougall, University of Ottawa
19th Century French Catholic Fur trade Families in the Great Lakes Region – Adaptive Strategies to Life in the USA Nicole St-Onge, University of Ottawa Comment: Galen Perras
Panel 65: Unofficial Diplomacy: Private Citizens and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Cold War (Room 220) Chair: Daniel Margolies, West Virginia Wesleyan College
Francis Pickens Miller and the Christian Origins of the American Century Mark Edwards, Ouachita Baptist University
Traversing Cold War Borders: Staughton Lynd’s Unofficial Peace Mission to Hanoi, 1965-1966 Carl Mirra, Adelphi University
Charles Howard and the Crusade for Civil Rights and Decolonization in the Context of the Cold War Curt Cardwell, Drake University Comment: Daniel Margolies
Panel 66: All Together Now? America and its Allies in Postwar Occupations (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121) Chair: Mario Del Pero, University of Bologna
Going it Alone: American Planning for the Occupation of Japan Dayna Barnes, London School of Economics
Occupation Endgame: The United States, the United Nations and the Korean Occupation, 1947-1948 Robert Barnes, London School of Economics
Raising the Stakes: The American Occupation of Berlin, 1945-47 Emma Peplow, London School of Economics Comment: Mario Del Pero
BREAK: 3:00PM – 3:30PM Refreshments provided in Lee Lounge
Session VIII: 3:30PM – 5:30PM Panel 67: Small Scale Imperialism?: Frontier Localities and American Foreign Relations, 1743-1860 (Room 220) Chair: Jason Colby, University of Victoria
American Neutrality and the Problem of Slavery in the 1790s Wendy Helen Wong, Temple University
A School as Foreign Policy?: The Case of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1743-1755 Matt Schumann, Eastern Michigan University
Showdown at the Oriental Hotel, and Other Such Tales of Barroom Violence from Abroad Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University Comment: Jason Colby
Panel 68: Kennedy’s Headaches (Room 326) Chair: Michael Allen, Northwestern University
Not Waving but Drowning: The United States’ Support for the Ngô Family Evelyn Krache Morris, Georgetown University
One More Step: Kennedy, Chemical Defoliants, and U.S. Intervention in Vietnam Richard M. Filipink, Jr., Western Illinois University
Latin Americanizing the Alliance for Progress: The Making of the Alliance for Progress from an Inter-American Perspective Cristóbal Zúñiga Espinoza, State University of New York, Stony Brook
American Missile Defense and the NATO Alliance: The Kennedy Administration and the Roots of Division Joseph W. Constance, Saint Anselm College Comment: Michael Allen
Panel 69: Boundary Crossing Essentials: Food Provisioning and U.S. Foreign Relations (Room 225) Chair: Nick Cullather, Indiana University
Meat in the Middle: Exploring the Transborder Relations of the Nineteenth-century Midwest Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Fruits of Benevolence: World War I Food Aid & International Power Helen Zoe Veit, Michigan State University
What Global Capitalism Leaves to the Nation: Coca-Cola, the United States, and Latin America Julio Moreno, University of San Francisco Comment: Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Minnesota
Panel 70: Perplexing Masquerade: The Many Faces of 20th Century Humanitarian Relief (Room 235) Chair: Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University
Progressive Financial Missionaries?: The Shoup Missions to Cuba, 1931-32 and 1938-39 Michael Adamson, California State University, Sacramento
CARE-ing for the Enemy: U.S. Food Policy in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949 Andrea O’Brien, George Washington University
Frontiers of Need: Humanitarianism, Imperialism and the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 Brian McNeil, University of Texas-Austin
The Gentle War: Famine Relief, Politics, and Privatization in Ethiopia, 1983-1986 Alexander Poster, Yale University Comment: Kristin Ahlberg, Department of State
Panel 71: Learning from Others: American Military History in a Transnational Context, 1941-1965 (Room 205) Chair: Christopher DeRosa, Monmouth University “We Don’t Know Anything about Espionage Schools”: How the United States Inherited Britain’s Tradition of Irregular Warfare Aaron R. Linderman, Texas A&M University “We must all maintain an optimistic viewpoint”: MAAG’s Opinion of France’s Performance in the Indochina War Nathaniel R. Weber, Texas A&M University The Origins of U.S. Security Policy in South Asia: A Case Study of Military Aid to Pakistan Mark Beall, Independent Scholar Comment: Christopher DeRosa Panel 72: Kennedy Administration Policies toward the Third World: A Reassessment (Room 309) Chair: Marc Selverstone, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia Multilateralism and Regional Organizations in the Era of Nation-Building: Reappraising the Kennedy Years Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin “A Slight but Salutary Case of the Jitters”: Bureaucratic Politics and the Alliance for Progress in Paraguay Kirk Tyvela, University of Wisconsin, Washington County Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders Phil E. Muehlenbeck, George Washington University Tough Love on the Periphery: The Kennedy Administration, Afghanistan, and the Pashtunistan Question Robert B. Rakove, Old Dominion University Comment: Luís Nuno Rodrigues, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute Panel 73: Cultures of Opposition: The American Left and U.S. Foreign Relations (Room 213) Chair: Thomas McCormick, University of Wisconsin at Madison U.S. and European Left Opposition to the Labor Provisions of the Versailles Treaty Elizabeth McKillen, University of Maine Critiquing the Cold War: Sidney Roger, Radio News, and a Culture of Opposition Nathan Godfried, University of Maine William Appleman Williams vs Reinhold Niebuhr: U.S. Foreign Policy and Two Theologies Paul Buhle, Brown University Comment: Jeffrey A. Engel, Texas A&M University Panel 74: Cultural Brokers in U.S. Foreign Relations (Room 226) Chair: Susan A. Brewer, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Cultural Brokers in Transatlantic Economic Relations: The Example of Arnold, Fortas & Porter Petra Dolata-Kreutzkamp, King’s College London Vietnam War Photographers: Chroniclers, Propagandists, or Cultural Brokers? Peter Busch, King’s College London “Send more people like the Martins…”: Winning the Cold War in Southeast Asia with “The Ugly American” Andreas Etges, Freie Universität Berlin Comment: Kenneth A. Osgood, Florida Atlantic University Panel 75: George Herring’s From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776: A Discussion of the Master Narrative of the United States and the World (VandeBerg Auditorium/Room 121) Chair: Marilyn Young, New York University From Colony to the Global Stage Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley From the 1890s to 1945 Emily Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine The Early Cold War Richard Immerman, Temple University The Vietnam War Era Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, University of Kentucky After Vietnam Kyle Longley, Arizona State University Comment: George Herring, University of Kentucky
SOCIAL EVENT: 6:00PM – 8:00 PM Reception, Wisconsin Veterans Museum, Capitol Square (wear your name badge) Sponsored by the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, University of Wisconsin-Madison |