Robert Buzzanco is a scholar of 20th century U.S. history and diplomatic history. He is also one of the America's leading authorities on the

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and the dynamics that encompassed this time period. Buzzanco received his Ph.D. from The

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and currently teaches at the

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. Buzzanco has lectured at national conferences on the Second Gulf War, globalization and the influence of the industrial military complex. Among his many other professional activities, he has served as the Chair of the Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize Committee for Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. Buzzanco has also contributed to national newspapers and magazines such as the ''Baltimore Sun'', ''Houston Chronicle'' and ''Newsday'' magazine. He has been interviewed or cited by various international media such as the BBC, NPR, the ''Financial Times'', Al-Jazeerra and the Islamic News Network.

Education

*The Ohio State University. Ph.D. in History, 1993; M.A. in History, 1984. *Ohio Wesleyan University. B.A. in History and Philosophy, 1982.

Teaching

Buzzanco teaches a variety of courses in U.S. history, including, at the undergraduate level, both halves of the survey, the history of the Vietnam War, America in the 1960s, and U.S. foreign policy, as well as a new course in 2004 titled "War,

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and Terror". He has also taught graduate courses on the Vietnam War, post-1945 U.S. history, and U.S. foreign relations ("Empire, War, and Diplomacy"), as well as numerous research seminars. Buzzanco has been the advisor on many dissertation thesis committees. He currently teaches at the

, in Houston, Texas.

Research

Buzzanco is the author or editor of three books, and he has written more than twenty articles that have appeared in scholarly publications and major newspapers. His current works include a manuscript on culture and politics for Oxford's VSI series, as well as his continuing work on the political economy of the 1960s and the impact of the Vietnam War on the U.S. economy.

Selected publications

* Recipient of Stuart L. Bernath Prize, awarded by Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. Chapter on Tet Offensive excerpted in Robert McMahon, ed, ''Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War'', 3d edition. *. A collection of essays on Vietnam in the "Blackwell Companion Series.” * "The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam during the Johnson Years", in * * "Anti-Imperialism" in ''Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations'', 2002 * "How Did Iraq and the United States Become Enemies", ''History News Network'', 28 October 2002. * "The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1968: Capitalism, Communism, and Containment", in ''Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World since 1945'', edited by Peter L. Hahn and Mary Ann Heiss, pp. 94–120 (The Ohio State University Press 2001). (Excerpted in Dennis Merrill and Thomas Paterson, eds. ''Major Problems in American Foreign Relations'', volume II, 6th edition).

References

21st-century American historians Ohio State University Graduate School alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Houston faculty Ohio Wesleyan University alumni {{improve categories, date=January 2021