Fields
U.S. History (20th century, labor, US foreign relations)
South African History
Transnational History
Teaching
U.S. Foreign Relations
History of the 1960s
Cold War: U.S./Soviet Perspectives
Modern South Africa
- PhD, Columbia University, 2001
Education & Training
- Individual Development Award, Binghamton University, 2010.
- Humanities Faculty Development Grant, Union College, 2002.
- Eisenhower World Affairs Institute Fellow, 1998-1999.
- Summer Fellow, Institute of African Studies, Columbia University, 1996.
- Fulbright Scholar, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1992. Researched African and Indian coal miners and contemporary trade unionism.
Neither Solidarity nor Subversion: The AFL-CIO in Cold War Africa. (Currently under review with Cornell University Press)
The 1950s (with Alice George), a volume in the Social History of the 20th Century United States,
Daniel Walkowitz, series ed. (2008, ABC-CLIO).
"The United States and Sub-Saharan Africa since 1961,” in Robert Beisner, ed., American Foreign Relations since 1600: a Guide to the Literature. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003 (online updates, Tom Zeiler, ed., 2004-2011).
I am currently completing a monograph on American labor’s foreign policy in Cold War Africa. I am beginning work on a project on the activities of the United States Information Agency in Africa during the Cold War.
