Year: 2012

Alum Caroline Smartt Lands Job at Awhere Inc.

Caroline Smartt (Class of 2010) is working as a research analyst for Awhere, Inc., a global development and technology company based in Denver, Colorado.  After studying the history of vector-borne disease in East Africa as a UROP fellow working with Prof. McCann’s Rockefeller-funding research project, Caroline completed her Work for Distinction B.A. thesis on the […]

Grad Student Uncovers Relationship Between Gingrich and Nixon

If you have been following the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, you know that every one of the candidates claims the mantle of Ronald Reagan, no one ,mote so than former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who bills himself as “a strong Reagan conservative” in distinction to the “Massachusetts Moderate” Mitt Romney.  But as Graduate […]

APHI Seminar Welcomes Oxford Professor Jay Sexton

On January 25, the American Political History seminar welcomed Jay Sexton, University Lecturer in American History and Fellow of Corpus Christi College at Oxford University.  Author of TThe Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth Century America (2011) and Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873 (2005), Sexton discussed his […]

Prof. Ferleger Explains America’s Dead Zones

Professor Lou Ferleger has just published “America’s Dead Zones: From Dodge City to Durango, Why Does Prosperity Pass So Many Places By?” This insightful article investigates why some regions are recovering, while others across America remain in deep decline and asks how did this happen and what can we do?  For more please click here.

Prof. Andrew Bacevich to have Article and Book Published

Essay “The Elusive American Century” appears in the February 2012 issue of Harper’s. The essay reprints portions of the introduction and conclusion to The Short American Century:  A Postmortem, an edited volume that Harvard University Press will publish in March.

Prof. Bruce Schulman has Article Published in Politico

Bruce Schulman has his article, “Chief of Staff: politics Meets Power,” appear in the January 18, 2012 edition of Politico. Follow the link below to view article. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71536.html