Degree
BA, Cornell University, 1975; MA (1976), PhD (1981), Stanford University
Teaching Experience
St. Mary's College (CA); Vanderbilt University
Specialties
U.S. diplomatic history, recent U.S. history, the Vietnam War
Interests
U.S.-Asia relations; Cold War; history of the senses
Publications
• Hiroshima: The World's Bomb (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology, should now be 3rd edition, Rowman and Littlefield, 2010
• Comrades at Odds: Culture and Indo-U.S. Relations, 1947-1964, (Cornell University Press, 2000)
• The Path to Vietnam (Cornell University Press, 1987)
Articles and reviews in American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Diplomatic History, California History, The International History Review, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere
Distinctions
• President, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2010)
• Fellow, Gandhi Peace Foundation
• Harry S. Truman Library Institute grant
• American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship