{"id":8634,"date":"2020-10-25T19:49:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T23:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=8634"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:15:35","slug":"david-mayers","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/profile\/david-mayers\/","title":{"rendered":"David Mayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><strong class=\"\">Areas of Specialization:<\/strong>\u00a0History of\u00a0International Relations, History of U.S. Foreign Relations, Political Biography, American Civil War<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"x_x_x_profile-single-bio\">\n<p class=\"x_x_x_x_p1\"><span class=\"\">David Mayers holds a joint appointment in the History and Political Science Departments. His primary area of teaching\/research interest is the history of US foreign relations\/international politics. His principal books are\u00a0<i class=\"\">George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy<\/i>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 1988),\u00a0<i class=\"\">The Ambassadors and America\u2019s Soviet Policy<\/i>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 1995, Douglas Dillon prize from the American Academy of Diplomacy),\u00a0<i class=\"\">Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861-1991<\/i>\u00a0(St. Martin\u2019s Press, 1998),\u00a0<i class=\"\">Dissenting Voices in America\u2019s Rise to Power<\/i>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2007),\u00a0<i class=\"\">FDR\u2018s Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis<\/i>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2013),\u00a0<i class=\"\">America and the Postwar World: Remaking\u00a0International Society, 1945-1956<\/i>\u00a0(Routledge, 2018),\u00a0<\/span><i class=\"\">Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad Before Pearl Harbor, 1935-1941\u00a0<\/i><span class=\"\">(Cambridge University Press, 2025)<\/span><span class=\"\">. The tentative title \u00a0of his book-in-progress is\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><i class=\"\">Where the Grapes of Wrath Are Stored: The United States, 1852<\/i><span class=\"\">. \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">Mayers\u2019s most recent journal article is<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span>\u201cChasing After Strange Gods: Anna Louise Strong in the USSR\u201d in <i class=\"\">Journal of Cold War Studies<\/i> (forthcoming in Summer or Fall 2025).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"x_x_x_profile-single-bio\">\n<p class=\"x_x_x_x_p1\"><span class=\"\">Mayers served on the board of trustees of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Relations from 1999 to 2005. He serves now as a member of the Management Committee, Transatlantic Studies Association. He chaired the Political Science Department from 2001 to 2007 and again in 2015-2018. Since 2013 he has been a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>Additional Information:<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/polisci\/files\/2020\/10\/Mayers-cv-copy-2.pdf\">Curriculum vitae<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18783,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18783"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11203,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8634\/revisions\/11203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}