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Michael
E. Latham. Associate Professor of History.
B.A. Pomona College; M.A. UCLA; Ph.D. UCLA.
Department of History,
Fordham University.
 Office:
Department of History
Fordham University
441 E. Fordham Road
Bronx, New York 10458
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Subjects Taught:
20th Century American History
History of U.S. Foreign Relations
Biography:
Michael Latham joined the Fordham faculty in
1996. His teaching and research center on twentieth-century American
history, the history of U.S. foreign relations, and the global history of the Cold
War. He is also interested in the international history of humanitarian
affairs. He is the author of Modernization as Ideology: American
Social Science and “Nation Building” in the Kennedy Era (2000) and co-editor of Staging
Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War (2003). His
articles have appeared in Diplomatic History, Third World Quarterly,
and several edited volumes. In 2007 he received Fordham’s undergraduate
teaching award in the social sciences.
He grew up in Hawai‘i and went to
college and graduate school in California. He now lives in Somers, New York, with his wife Jennifer and two daughters, Maile and Anya.
Current Interests and Research:
Work in Progress: Transforming the World:
Modernization and U.S. Foreign Relations from the Cold War to the Present.
Book under contract to Cornell University Press.
Future Project: America and the Campaign
Against World Hunger.
Recent Publications:
Books
in Print:
- Modernization as Ideology: American Social
Science and “Nation Building” in the Kennedy Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. (Chinese edition translated by Niu Ke. Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press, 2003).
- Staging Growth: Modernization, Development,
and the Global Cold War, co-edited with David Engerman, Nils Gilman,
Mark Haefele. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press,
2003.
- Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical
Perspective, co-edited
with Joyce Appleby, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, Allison Sneider.
New York: Routledge, 1996.
Journal and Ejournal Articles:
- “The Cold War in the Third World, 1963-1975.” In The
Cambridge History of the Cold War, edited by Melvyn Leffler and Odd
Arne Westad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
- “What Price Victory? American Intellectuals
and the Problem of Cold War Democracy.” In The Columbia History of
the United States, 1945-2000, edited by Marc C. Carnes. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
- “Redirecting the Revolution? The United States and the Failure of Nation–Building in South Vietnam.” Third World Quarterly
27 (February 2006): 27-41.
- “Modernization.” In The Cambridge History of
Science: Modern Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Theodore
Porter and Dorothy Ross, 721-734. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- “Imperial Legacy, Cold War Credibility:
Lyndon Johnson and the Panama Crisis.” Peace and Change 27
(October 2002): 499-527.
- “Knowledge at War: American Social Science
and Vietnam.” In The Blackwell Companion to the Vietnam War,
edited by Marilyn Young and Robert Buzzanco, 434-449. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
- “The Republic in Time: Exceptionalist
Discourse and Kennedy Administration Ideology.” In The Cultural
Turn: Essays in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations, edited
by Frank Ninkovich and Liping Bu, 239-262. Chicago: Imprint,
2002.
- “Ideology, Social Science, and Destiny:
Modernization and the Kennedy-Era Alliance for Progress.” Diplomatic
History 22 (Spring 1998): 199-229.
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