Foster Rhea Dulles (24 January 1900,

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– 11 September 1970,

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) was an American journalist and historian, and author of a number of books. He specialized in political and cultural relations between the United States and East Asia, and advocated internationalism as opposed to American isolationism. The diplomats

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and

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were his cousins.

Biography

After secondary education at

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, Dulles attended Princeton University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1921. For two years after graduation he lived in China and taught at Princeton University's Peking Center (Princeton-in-Peking). In 1922 he became a correspondent in Beijing for the ''

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''. He returned to the United States, and in 1923 he joined the staff of the ''

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''. In 1924 he joined the staff of ''

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''. From 1925 to 1926 he worked at the Paris bureau of the ''

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''. From 1927 to 1933 he wrote editorials for the ''

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''. Dulles was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1937–1938. He was a visiting professor of American history at Bennington College for the academic year 1938–1940, at Smith College for the academic year 1939–1940 and at Swarthmore College for the academic year 1940‐1941. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1940 after submitting his thesis, ''American Learns to Learn''. Dulles was a professor of history at Ohio State University from 1941 to 1965, when he retired as professor emeritus. He was chair of the history department from 1953 to 1958. In 1957 he went on State Department cultural exchanges to India, where he lectured at several different universities, and to the Soviet Union in 1958. He was a Fuibright lecturer in Japan for the academic year 1961‐1962. Dulles Hall at Ohio State University was built in 1975 and named in his memory.

Family

Foster R. Dulles's father was William Dulles (1857–1915), who was a lawyer and corporation president, and a brother of

and

. On August 7, 1926, Foster R. Dulles married Marion Richardson in

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References

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