David Ekbladh Associate Professor of History East Hall 110 Department of History Medford, MA 02155 Tufts University 617.627.3758 david.ekbladh@tufts.edu ___________________________________________________________________ ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor of History, Department of History, Core Faculty in International Relations, Tisch College Faculty, and Associate of the Center for Strategic Studies, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, May 2014-Present Scholar in Residence, Tufts European Center, 2018 Visiting Fellow, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney, 2016 Visiting Scholar, History Department, School of Social Science, University of the South Pacific, 2015-2016 Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015 Visiting Fellow, Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2015 Visiting Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 2015

Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Tufts University, August 2008-May 2014 Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-2013

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Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities at Tufts, Tufts University, 2011-2012 Research Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009-2010 Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Tufts University, June-August 2008 Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2007-2008 John M. Olin Postdoctoral Associate, International Security Studies, Yale University, 2006-2007 Lecturer, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, 2006-2007 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, The American University, Washington, DC, 2004-2006

Visiting Scholar/Lecturer, Foreign Policy Institute/International Development Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, 2003-2004

Advisor on Curricular Development, United Nations University for Peace, New York and Costa Rica, February-June 2003 Special Assistant to David Hamburg, President Emeritus of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and Visiting Scholar at Cornell University, March 2001- September 2001 Research Associate, Carnegie Corporation of New York and Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, June 1999-March 2001 SELECTED AWARDS AND PRIZES

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Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, 2011

Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award, 2010 EDUCATION

Ph.D. Columbia University, History, 2003 M.Phil. Columbia University, History, 1998 M.A. Columbia University, History, 1997 B.A. American University, History, 1994 BOOKS

Look at the World: The Birth of an American Globalism in the 1930s

Book project in progress supported by awards from Tufts University; the Earhart Foundation; a Truman Kaufmann Research Fellowship; and the Belfer Center, Harvard University.

Knowledge as Power: Information and Internationalism in a World in Crisis

Book project in progress supported by awards from Tufts University; the Rockefeller Archive Center; the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney; and the Norwegian Nobel Institute.

The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order (Princeton University Press, 2010).

Part of the “America in the World” series edited by Sven Beckert and Jeremi Suri. Supported by awards from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; The School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; International Security Studies, Yale University; the Smith Richardson Foundation; the Earhart Foundation; Princeton University; and the National

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Endowment for the Humanities.

Winner, 2011 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for best first book in American foreign relations

Winner, Phi Alpha Theta 2010 Best First Book Award

EDITED COLLECTIONS Beyond 1917: The United States and the Global Legacies of the Great War (Oxford University Press, 2017), editor with Thomas Zeiler and Benjamin Montoya.

The First World War and its International Legacies Special issue of Diplomatic History 38 (September 2014), editor with Thomas Zeiler ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Peer Reviewed “Knowledge is Power: Internationalism, Information, and US Global Ambitions,” in Jeremy I. Adelman, ed., Empire and the Social Sciences, in press for publication, Bloomsbury Press, 2019. Ekbladh and Ichiro Takayoshi, "Look at the World," in Takayoshi, ed. American Literature in Transition: The 1930s in press for publication, Cambridge University Press, 2018. “The Interwar Origins of a Global U.S. Modernization Agenda,” in Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro, eds., Internationalism, Imperialism and the Formation of the Contemporary World, (Palgrave MacMillian Transnational History Series, 2018).

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“Peripheral Vision: U.S. Modernization Efforts and the ‘Periphery’” in Bevan Sewell and Maria Ryan, eds., Foreign Policy at the Periphery: The Shifting Margins of US International Relations since World War II (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017). “American Asylum: The United States and the Campaign to Transplant the Technical League, 1939-1940.” Diplomatic History 39 (September 2015): 629-660. “The Interwar Origins of a Global U.S. Modernization Agenda,” in Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro, eds., Os passados do presente: Internacionalismo, imperialismo e a construção do mundo contemporâneo (Lisboa: Almedina, 2015). “Truman, Development Aid, and American Foreign Policy ” in Ray Geselbracht, ed., The Foreign Aid Legacy of Harry S. Truman (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2015). “Legacies of World War I” Diplomatic History 38 (September 2014): 696-699. “The Interwar Foundations of Security Studies: Edward Mead Earle, the Carnegie Corporation and the Depression Era Origins of a Field” Global Society 28:1 (2014): 40-53. “Present at the Creation: Edward Mead Earle and the Depression Era Origins of Security Studies” International Security 36 (Winter 2011/12): 107–141.

“Exile Economics: The Transnational Contributions and Limits of the League of Nations’ Economic and Financial Section” New Global Studies 4: Iss. 1, Article 9. http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol4/iss1/art9, July 2010 “Meeting the Challenge from Totalitarianism: The Tennessee Valley Authority as a Global Model for Liberal Development, 1933-1945” International History Review 32 (March 2010): 47-67. “From Consensus to Crisis: The Postwar Career of Nation Building in U.S. Foreign

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Relations” in Francis Fukuyama, ed. Nation Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). “To Reconstruct the Medieval: Rural Reconstruction in Interwar China and the Rise of an American Style of Modernization, 1914-1961” in Frank Ninkovich, et al., eds. Global America (forthcoming). “To Reconstruct the Medieval: Rural Reconstruction in Interwar China and the Rise of an American Style of Modernization, 1914-1961” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 9 (Fall-Winter 2000): 169-196. [Due to various publication delays this issue is backdated, the article was initially accepted in 2003 and published in summer 2006]. “Mr. TVA: ‘Grass Roots’ Development, David Lilienthal, and the Rise and Fall of the Tennessee Valley Authority as a Symbol for U.S. Overseas Development, 1933-1973” Diplomatic History 26 (Summer 2002): 335-374. Commentary “Modernization,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History vol. 1 (New York, Oxford University Press, 2013), 704-708.

Invited Contributor to the Society of American Historians of Foreign Relations Weblog, 2010-2011. http://www.shafr.org/ “A Pillar’s Progress: How Development’s History Shapes U.S. Options in the Present,” Discussion Paper, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University [online], http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/20203/pillars_progress.html; May 2010, Internet.

“Muddling Through: How Development's Past Shapes Its Future,” Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University [online], http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/19674/muddling_through.html?breadcrumb=%2Fexperts%2F2065%2Fdavid_ekbladh; November 4, 2009, Internet.

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“Profits of Development: The Development and Resources Corporation and Cold War Modernization.” Princeton University Library Chronicle 69 (Spring 2008): 487-505. “How to Build a Nation” Wilson Quarterly, 28 (Winter 2004): 12-20.

“The Marshall Plan Mystique” World Affairs 7 (July-September 2003): 42-50.

“Globalization and the Language of Modernization” World Affairs 6 (April-June 2002): 52-64. “Wise as a Serpent and Harmless as a Dove: John F. Stevens and American Policy in Manchuria and Siberia, 1918-1924” Prologue 27 (December 1995): 319-333. Selected Reviews, Forums, and Interviews “Interwar Globalism: The Role of Intellectuals,” Diplomatic History, 42 (April 2018): 350-353.

H-Diplo Roundtable XVIII 20 on Timothy Nunan. Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan [online], https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/roundtable-xviii-20.pdf, April 6, 2017, Internet

Jess Gilbert, Planning Democracy: Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal in The Journal of Southern History, 83 (August 2016): 711-712. “The Stages of Development’s History?” Roundtable on the Historiography of the History of Development, Humanity, http://humanityjournal.org/Joseph-Hodge-Roundtable/; April 30, 2016; Internet. H-Diplo Roundtable XVI, 29 on Eric Helleiner. Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order [online], https://networks.h-net.org/pdf-h-diplo-roundtable-xvi-29-29-june-2015, June 29, 2015, Internet.

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Julia Irwin, Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening in Diplomatic History 39 (January 2015): 191-193 Peter Mandler, Return From the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War in Journal of American Studies 48 (February 2014), E17.

Author's Response to H-Diplo | ISSF Article Review, 2012: 5 [online], http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/ISSF/; June 27, 2012; Internet.

Full Segment Interview on WGBH Boston Radio Program Innovation HUB, “The Modernization of America” broadcast, April 21, 2012, online at: http://www.wgbh.org/articles/The-Modernization-of-America-6061 MIT Press Journals Podcast Series Interview http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/podcast_episode15_ISEC; February 29, 2012; Internet.

Michael Latham, The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present in The American Historical Review 117 (February 2012): 222-223.

“Let Them Eat Development,” Review of Nick Cullather, The Hungry World, in Passport 42 (January 2012): 11-13. Author’s Response in H-Diplo Roundtable Discussion of The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order [online], http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/#vol11no35; July 19, 2010; Internet.

Special Forum: Modernization as a Global Project, Diplomatic History: 23:3 (June 2009) for H-Diplo Article Review, H-Diplo Discussion Network [online], http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/reviews/dh/dh2009.html#issue3; July 30, 2009; Internet.

David Edelstein, Occupational Hazards: Success & Failure in Military Occupation for H-Diplo Roundtable Review, H-Diplo Discussion Network [online],

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http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-X-15.pdf; May 21, 2009; Internet.

Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.- Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968 for H-Diplo Roundtable Review, H-Diplo Discussion Network [online], http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/rountables/; November 11, 2008; Internet. Gregg Brazinsky, Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy in The Register 105 (Autumn 2008): 759-760. Mansel G. Blackford, Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific, in Western Historical Quarterly 39 (Autumn 2008): 368-369.

Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents in Intelligence and National Security 18 (Winter 2003): 227-228.

William F. Nimmo, Stars and Stripes Across the Pacific: The United States, Japan, and the Asia Pacific Region, 1895-1945 in Pacific Affairs 75 (Summer 2002): 337-338.

Anthony McGrew and Christopher Brook, eds., Asia-Pacific in the New World Order; Grahame Thompson, ed., Economic Dynamism in the Asia-Pacific; Richard Maidment and Colin Mackerras, eds., Culture and Society in the Asia-Pacific; Richard Maidment, David Goldblatt and Jeremy Mitchell, eds.,Governance in the Asia-Pacific; Bernard Eccleston, Michael Dawson, and Deborah McNamara, eds., The Asia-Pacific Profile in The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, December 2000.

David Nye, Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies in The Journal of International Affairs 53 (Fall 1999): 366-369. Reports Education for Peace in the 21st Century: A Report on the Advisory Meeting on the

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Academic Program of the University for Peace at the United Nations, United Nations, (2001). SELECTED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Senior Semester Leave, Faculty Research Awards Committee, Tufts University, 2016

Fulbright Specialist Roster, 2016-2020 Grant-in-Aid, Faculty Research Awards Committee, Tufts University, 2016 Earhart Foundation Research Grant, 2014

Grant-in-Aid, Faculty Research Awards Committee, Tufts University, 2014

Tisch College Faculty Fellow, Tufts University, 2014-2015 Grant-in-Aid, Faculty Research Awards Committee, Tufts University, 2013 Truman-Kauffman Research Fellowship, Harry S. Truman Library Institute, 2012 Tufts Collaborates, Collaborative Research Grant, Primary Investigator, 2012-2013 Research Grant, Rockefeller Archive Center, 2012 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Tufts University, 2012

Grant-in-Aid, Faculty Research Awards Committee, Tufts University, 2012 Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities at Tufts, Tufts University, 2011-2012

Earhart Foundation Research Grant, 2011

Faculty Research Fund Award, Tufts University, 2010

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Smith Richardson Foundation Book Grant, 2008-2010

Grant-in-Aid, Faculty Research Awards Committee, Tufts University, 2009 Fulbright Lecturing/Research Award, 2008-2009 (declined) Earhart Foundation Research Grant, 2006 Earhart Foundation Research Grant, 2005

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2004

Princeton University Library Research Fellow, 2004 Earhart Foundation Research Grant, 2003 Research Grant, Center for International Conflict Resolution-Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, 2002 Pacific Basin Pre-Dissertation Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002

Tokyo Foundation SYLFF Fellow, 1999-2002 Kennedy Research Grant, John F. Kennedy Institute, 2002 Research Grant, Eisenhower Institute, 2002 Research Grant, Truman Library Institute, 2001 Weatherhead Fellow, Columbia University, 2000-2001 Research Grant, Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller University, 2000

Moody Research Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 2000

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Summer Language Study Fellowship, Russian School of Norwich University, 1998, 1999 Dissertation Travel Grant, Institute for War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, 1999 Teaching Fellow, Department of History, Columbia University, 1997-1999 SELECTED CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS “When Geneva was the Center of the American Universe,” Tufts European Center, Talloires, France, May 2018 [invited speaker] “Internationalism of the Interwar,” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, Simmons College, July 2017 [invited speaker] Commentator, “Turning Regional Plans into Global Strategy the Case for European Community Development Aid,” Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar, February 2017 [invited speaker] “Looking at the World: US Activists and the American Public and Changing Views of the Globe in the Depression Era,” Social Science Seminar, University of the South Pacific, October, 2016 [invited speaker] “Making the National, Global: US Internationalists and the American Public Look at the Depression World,” Scales of Economy Conference, University of Sydney, July 2016 [invited speaker] Chair, Commentator, ANZASA Postgraduate and Early Career Scholar Conference, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney, July 2016 [invited speaker] “Strategies of History: The Battle for the History of World War II,” History Department Seminar, Victoria University, New Zealand, May 2016 [invited speaker]

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Keynote Address, “Standards of Development: The Good Society as Global Development,” Conference on New Trajectories in the Study of Development, Victoria University, New Zealand, May 2016 [invited speaker] “Look at the World: The Birth of an American Globalism in the 1930s,” Nobel Seminar Series, Norwegian Nobel Institute, June 2015 [invited speaker] “‘Strategic Histories’: The Preemptive Strike in the Battle Over the Memory of World War II and the Global Role of the United States,” Foreign Policy Seminar, University of Connecticut, April 2015 [invited speaker]

Commentator, “What the (Jewish) Soldier Thinks: American Morale Surveys and the 1948 Palestine War,” Andrew W. Mellon Seminar on Violence/Non-Violence, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, April 2015 [invited speaker]

Commentator, “Development as Redistribution: A Global History,” Harvard University, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar, March 2015 [invited speaker] Conference Address, “Red Lines and Beyond: Some Unwarranted Reflections on International History” Conference on International History, Harvard University, March 2015 [invited speaker] “The War of the Worlds and Hearing a World in Crisis” International Relations Core Dinner, Tufts University, March 2015 [invited speaker] “How a New Deal for the World Came to Grief in Southeast Asia,” Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, February 2015 [invited speaker]

Chair and speaker, “Boundaries,” Next Generation Philanthropy Scholars Conference, Rockefeller Archive Center, October 2014. [invited speaker]

Organizer and convening speaker, Legacies of the Great War: A Centennial Commemoration Conference, Sponsored by the Stanley Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy and Diplomatic History, Williams College, April 2014. “Knowledge is Power: Internationalism, Information, and US Global Ambitions,”

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Empire and the Social Sciences Symposium, Princeton Institute on International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, March 2014. [invited speaker] Chair and Commentator, “The Intersections of Global and Diplomatic History,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2014.

Chair and Commentator, “Roots of International Development, 1914-1938,” Conference on International Organizations and the Politics of Development: Historical Perspectives, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2013. [invited speaker] Roundtable Panelist, Conference on International Organizations and the Politics of Development: Historical Perspectives, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2013. [invited speaker] “Nights at Tufts, 1939: IR and a World at War,” International Relations Core Forum, Tufts University, October 2013. [invited speaker] “Mars Attacks?: Radio Waves, a Shrinking Earth, and International Politics in a ‘Troublesome World,’” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Arlington, Virginia, June 2013. “De-Centering the New Deal: Is the Method the Message?” Roundtable on “The Global Links and Legacies of the New Deal: The Limits of Decentering the United States in Global History,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Arlington, Virginia, June 2013. Commentator, “Lincoln’s Lawyers in Africa,” Conference on International History: Law and International History, Harvard University, March 2013. [invited speaker] “What the Marshall Plan Wasn’t,” The Legacy of the Marshall Plan Teacher Conference, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Independence, Missouri, July 2012. [invited speaker] “NGOs and American Aid in the 1940s,” The Legacy of the Marshall Plan Teacher Conference, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Independence, Missouri, July 2012. [invited speaker]

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Chair and commentator for, “Roundtable: Revolutions in Relief: American-led Humanitarianism in the Great War Era,“ Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Hartford, Connecticut, June 2012. “Modernization and American Foreign Aid Policy Following World War II” 10th Annual Truman Legacy Conference: Truman and Foreign Aid, Key West, Florida, May, 2012. [invited speaker] “Containment Before Kennan,” Conference on George F. Kennan: An American Life, Williams College, April 2012. [invited speaker] Commentator, “‘Bienvenido, Mickey Mouse?’: Modernization, Americanization, and Anti-Americanism in Contemporary Spain,” Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Tufts University, March 2012. “A Pavilion of Redemption: The League of Nations at the 1939 World’s Fair,” Center for the Humanities at Tufts, Tufts University, January 2012. “The Interwar Foundations of Security Studies: Edward Mead Earle, the Carnegie Corporation and the Depression Era Origins of a Field,” Conference on Smart Power, Smart Philanthropy—Hard, Soft and Smart Power in the American Century, The University of Manchester, December 2011. [invited speaker]

“A Gospel of Liberalism: Modernization and an American World Order,” Fletcher Development Seminar, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, October 2011. [invited speaker]

“A Grand Strategy: Edward Mead Earle and the Depression Era Origins of Security Studies,” Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, September 2011. [invited speaker]

“American Asylum: The United States and the Campaign to Transplant the Technical League,” Towards a New History of the League of Nations, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, August, 2011. [invited speaker]

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“Depression Development: The Interwar Origins of a Global U.S. Modernization Agenda” The End of Empires? Cold War Diplomacies, Trajectories of Development, and the Formation of the “Third World,” Brown University, May 2011. [invited speaker] “The Great American Mission” (book discussion), Columbia Seminar on Modern Europe, Columbia University, November 2010. [invited speaker] “A League of Extraordinary Generalizations: The Transnational Contributions and Limits of the League of Nations’ Economic Section” The Practices of Transnational Studies: The State of the Field, Tufts University, March 2010.

Chair, commentator, “The Cold War and the Armenian Genocide” Conference on America’s Response to the Armenian Genocide: Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 2010. [invited speaker]

“The Great American Mission” (book discussion), Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, March 2010. [invited speaker] “The Great American Mission” (book discussion), American Political History Seminar, History Department, University of California, Berkeley, February 2010. [invited speaker] “The League of Nations in…New Jersey? How International Networks Reshaped U.S. Views for a Postwar World” Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, December 2009. “Modernization as Grand Strategy” International Security Studies Conference, Yale University, October 2009. [invited speaker] Commentator for panel discussion on David Edelstein’s Occupational Hazards: Success and Failure in Military Occupations, Williams/H-Diplo Conference, New Scholarship in American Foreign Relations, Williams College, April 2009. [invited speaker]

“Liberalism's Spine: 'Modernisation' to Meet the Challenge of Totalitarianism” Agrarian Studies Colloquium, Yale University, January 2009. [invited speaker]

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Commentator for panel discussion on Bradley Simpson’s Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968, Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, November 2008. [invited speaker] “‘Everything is Going Wrong’: The Unraveling of the Postwar Liberal Development Consensus in the 1960s” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference, Ohio State University, June 2008. “A Broadcast Revolution: Radio and American Globalism in the 1930s” American Academy of Arts and Sciences, March 2008. "Liberalism's Spine: 'Modernisation' to Meet the Challenge of Totalitarianism, 1933-1944" International History Seminar, Harvard University, February 2008. [invited lecture] “Modernization from the Inside Out: Development and the U.S. Global Mission in the Twentieth Century” John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, December 2007. [invited lecture] “Liberalism’s Spine: Modernization and the Threat of Totalitarianism, 1933- 1960” History Department, Yale University, February 2007. [invited lecture] "The Only Road for Mankind: The Depression and the Origins of Modernization" International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security, Yale University, February 2007. “Modernization from the Inside Out: Development and the U.S. Global Mission in the Twentieth Century,” MacMillan Center, Yale University, September 2006.

Panel Discussion on Foreign Aid and Contemporary Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, February 2006. [invited speaker] “Finding Liberalism’s Spine: Modernization and the Threat of Totalitarianism, 1933-1960” Faculty Seminar, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, January 2006. [invited lecture]

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“The History of U.S. Foreign Relations Toward the Middle East” to the Delegation of Georgia, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, January 2006. [invited lecture] “South Korea as a U.S. Development Problem, 1945-1960” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, U.S. National Archives, June 2005. “The One Best Road for Mankind: Modernization and U.S. Foreign Relations” History Department, University of California, San Diego, February 2005. [invited lecture] “The History of U.S. Foreign Relations Toward the Middle East” to the Delegation of the Republic of Indonesia, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, January 2005. [invited lecture] “Fables of the (Term) Reconstruction: Views on Development’s History” American University, December 2004. “Developing a New History of Modernization” Princeton University, July 2004. “The Dismantling of Nation Building” Conference on Nation Building, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, April 2004. “Illimitable Horizons: The Tennessee Valley Authority as a Symbol and Model for Overseas Development” Faculty Seminar, Georgetown University, March 2004. [invited speaker] “Sustainable Development: What’s All the Hype About?” Johns Hopkins University, March 2004. “The TVA, Natural Systems, and International Development” Conference on Rivers in History, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, December 2003. Chair and commentator for panel, “JFK’s Foreign Policy Legacy” Kennedy Legacy Conference, Chestnut Hill College, November 2003.

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“Grass Roots for the Globe: U.S. Modernization, Participation, and Cold War Confrontation” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Hartford Connecticut, October 2003. “Illimitable Horizons: The Tennessee Valley Authority as a Symbol and Model for Overseas Development” History Department, Princeton University, January 2003. [invited lecture] “The Parachuting Cats: ‘Careless Technology,’ the American War in Vietnam, and the Recasting of International Development, 1943-1974” National Technology and Social Sciences Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2002. “A TVA on the Mekong” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, American University, June 2001. “To Reconstruct the Medieval: U.S. Non-Governmental Organizations and the Modernization of Interwar China, 1914-1937” Harvard Conference on International History, Harvard University, April 2001. “Completing the Sentence: Globalization as the Culmination of Modernization” Weatherhead Speakers Series, Columbia University, October 2000. “Developing South Korea: Cold War Connections to Globalization.” Conference on Globalization and Democratic Developments in Asia, Lund University, Sweden, May 2000. “The Stakes are so High: Developing a South Korea, 1945-1960.” Association for Asian Studies Conference, San Diego, California, March 2000. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Associate Editor, New Global Studies, Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Journal, November 2009-present. Editor, Collaborative-History, 2015-2016

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Trustee, Toynbee Prize Foundation, 2011-present Consultant, USAID Alumni Association History Project, 2014-2016 Tobin Project, Invited Participant, 2012 Teaching American History Grant, Educational Seminar Leader, Numerous Locations Member, Toynbee Prize Selection Committee, Toynbee Foundation, 2010 Consultant for WGBH Boston “Open Vault” Digital Archive Project, 2009-2010 Advisory Board Member, Center for North American Studies, American University, 2004-2006 Consultant to project on the International Impact of Non-governmental Groups, Kyorin University, Japan, 2005 Affiliate, International Center for Advanced Study, New York University, 2002-2005 Joint Research and Exchange Fellowship Program Selection Committee, Tokyo Foundation, 2000-2001. Rapporteur, Advisory Meeting on the Academic Program of the University for Peace, United Nations, New York City, March 23-24, 2001

Co-chair of the International Relations Theory/Diplomatic History Workshop, Columbia University, January 1998 to May 1999 Rapporteur, Columbia University Seminar on American Civilization, March 1997 to April 1998 Archivist, Delaware Public Archives, January 1995 to August 1995; June 1996 to August 1996

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Technician, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., September 1992 to October 1994 LANGUAGES Reading, speaking, and basic translation ability in Russian Reading and standard translation ability in Spanish Elementary reading and speaking ability in German

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REFERENCES Professor Michael Adas Abraham E. Voorhees Professor Emeritus of History and Board of Governors' Chair Department of History Rutgers University Email: madas@rci.rutgers.edu Professor Davide Rodogno Professor of International History Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland Email: davide.rodogno@graduateinstitute.ch Professor Thomas W. Zeiler Professor of History Department of History University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0234 Email: Thomas.Zeiler@colorado.edu