Ellen and Dixon Long Associate Professor of World Affairs, Case Western Reserve University
My interests in the politics of international finance were sparked by various jobs I held during school breaks from Georgetown University at a large bank headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Nearing graduation, I passed the written and oral components of the US foreign service exam and subsequently began graduate study at the University of Virginia waiting to join the Department of State as an econom...
Professor, Department of History, Texas A&M University
In common with many historians, I have always been interested in how warfare and military institutions have shaped the past. Fortunately, as a graduate student at the Ohio State University, I found a mentor in Professor Allan R. Millett who encouraged my interest in American military history. My dissertation explored the dynamics of resistance and counterinsurgency during the U.S. conquest of the...
SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities; Professor of History, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Wilfred M. McClay has been SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he is also Professor of History, since 1999. He has also taught at Georgetown University, Tulane University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Dallas, and is currently also a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, and a membe...
Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park
EducationM.A. and Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University; B.A. in Philosophy, Barnard CollegeHonorsFulbright Senior Scholar, Germany, 2009; Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, 2005-6; Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellowship, Princeton University, 1995-96; Social Politics recognized by Library Journal as one of "10 Best New Journals of 1994"; Fulbright Scholar Abroad, Sweden, 1994; Nati...
Assistant Professor, History and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University
My scholarship combines a passion for present-day politics with intellectual interests in the history of government and social policy. When I entered graduate school at the University of Michigan in 1994, Newt Gingrich was leading the Republicans to victory in the U.S. Congress. Before the ink was dry on their "Contract with America," a new bill aimed at ending the 60-year commitment of the federa...
Coordinator for Postgraduate Fellowships and Scholarships and Affiliate Faculty, History Department and Women's Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
My interest in immigration history and policy arose from my transnational family background. Born in Italy to Irish parents, I spent a great deal of time in Ireland after we moved to the U.S. and experienced firsthand the consequences of a post-World War II Irish diaspora. Some members of my extended family remained in Galway, but others emigrated to Canada, England, Australia, and the U.S. A sem...
My interests in the politics of international finance were sparked by various jobs I held during school breaks from Georgetown University at a large bank headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Nearing graduation, I passed the written and oral components of the US foreign service exam and subsequently began graduate study at the University of Virginia waiting to join the Department of State as an econom...
Wilfred M. McClay has been SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he is also Professor of History, since 1999. He has also taught at Georgetown University, Tulane University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Dallas, and is currently also a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, and a membe...
EducationM.A. and Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University; B.A. in Philosophy, Barnard CollegeHonorsFulbright Senior Scholar, Germany, 2009; Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, 2005-6; Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellowship, Princeton University, 1995-96; Social Politics recognized by Library Journal as one of "10 Best New Journals of 1994"; Fulbright Scholar Abroad, Sweden, 1994; Nati...
My scholarship combines a passion for present-day politics with intellectual interests in the history of government and social policy. When I entered graduate school at the University of Michigan in 1994, Newt Gingrich was leading the Republicans to victory in the U.S. Congress. Before the ink was dry on their "Contract with America," a new bill aimed at ending the 60-year commitment of the federa...
My interest in immigration history and policy arose from my transnational family background. Born in Italy to Irish parents, I spent a great deal of time in Ireland after we moved to the U.S. and experienced firsthand the consequences of a post-World War II Irish diaspora. Some members of my extended family remained in Galway, but others emigrated to Canada, England, Australia, and the U.S. A sem...