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David B. Woolner
Professor of History
Bio
David B. Woolner is Professor of History and Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation Fellow in Roosevelt Studies at Marist University; Senior Fellow and Resident Historian of the Roosevelt Institute; and Senior Fellow of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College. He is the author of The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace, (Basic Books, 2017) and is editor/co-editor of five books, including Progressivism in America: Past Present and Future (Oxford, 2016); FDR鈥檚 World: War, Peace and Legacies, (Palgrave 2008) and FDR and the Environment (Palgrave, 2003).
His media appearances include interviews with CNN, the BBC, NPR, CBC, the New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. His reviews and op-ed pieces have appeared in TIME, The Washington Post, The Nation, Huffington Post, The Irish Times and other publications. He served as historical advisor to the Ken Burns films The Roosevelts: An Intimate History and The US and the Holocaust and for numerous special exhibitions at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum. He is a member of the Scholarly Board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History; the Editorial Board of the International History Review; the Advisory Group of the Churchill Archives Project; and is a Fellow of Salzburg Global. He is the editor of the Palgrave Macmillan series, 鈥淭he World of the Roosevelts,鈥 and has been a member of the faculty of the Bard Prison Initiative since 2011.
Dr. Woolner is the recipient of the Fulbright Denmark Distinguished Scholar Award in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark (2023-2024) and was named a Fulbright Specialist for the years 2021-2025 by the US Department of State鈥檚 Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs. He is also the recipient of the Mary Ball Washington Chair in American History, University College Dublin (2016-2017); the Roosevelt Fellowship, University College Roosevelt, Middleburg, the Netherlands, (Spring 2016); Fulbright Research Chair, the Roosevelt Study Center, Middleburg, the Netherlands (Fall 2010) and an Archives By-Fellowship, Churchill College, Cambridge University, (Fall 2007).
From 2000-2010, Dr. Woolner served as the Roosevelt Institute鈥檚 Executive Director, overseeing a significant expansion of the organization鈥檚 budget, programmatic dimension and staff. He earned his Ph. D. and M.A. in history from McGill University and a B.A. summa cum laude in English Literature and History from the University of Minnesota.
Education
PhD, International History, McGill University, 1997
MA, History, McGill University, 1990
BA, summa cum laude, English Literature and History, University of Minnesota
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
The presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt; twentieth century Anglo-American relations; US-Canadian relations; American foreign policy, the history of the Second World War.
Selected Publications
Books
The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace, Basic Books, New York, December 2017
Editor, Progressivism in America: Past, Present and Future, with John M. Thompson, Oxford University Press, January 2016
Editor, FDR鈥檚 World: War Peace and Legacies, with Warren Kimball and David Reynolds, Palgrave Macmillan, November 2008.
Editor, FDR and the Environment, with Henry Henderson, published as part of the Palgrave Series, The World of the Roosevelts, General Editors: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Douglas Brinkley, Palgrave, January 2005.
Editor, FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945, published as part of the Palgrave Series, The World of the Roosevelts, General Editors: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Douglas Brinkley, Palgrave, New York, August 2003.
Editor, The Second Quebec Conference Revisited: Waging War Formulating Peace; Canada, Great Britain and the United States in 1944-45, Palgrave/St. Martin鈥檚 Press, October 1998.
Select Articles, Book Chapters
The other Royal Dimension to the Transatlantic Relationship: FDR and the Dutch and Norwegian Royal Families during the Second World War,鈥 an 8,000-word chapter in Locating the Transatlantic in Twentieth-century Politics, Diplomacy and Culture, edited by Gaynor Johnson, Bloomsbury Academic, February 2024.
鈥淐hurchill, the Special Relationship, and the English-Speaking World,鈥 a 12,000-word chapter in A Guide to Winston Churchill, published by Camb1ridge University Press, forthcoming February 2023
鈥溾楥rushed by the Burdens of War鈥: The Death and Legacy of Franklin Roosevelt,鈥 a 10,000-word chapter in Mourning the Presidents, a book sponsored by the White House Historical Association and published by the University of Virginia Press, forthcoming March 2023
鈥淔orging Alliances: The United Nations and the Grand Alliance,鈥 an 8,000-word chapter in The Oxford Handbook on World War II, Oxford University Press, forthcoming spring 2023.
鈥淔DR and the Creation of the Postwar International Order鈥 in American Mosaic: Festschrift in Honor of Cornelis A. Van Minnen, edited by William E. Leuchtenburg (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2017).
鈥淐hurchill and the Birth of the Anglo-American 鈥楽pecial Relationship,鈥欌 in Winston Churchill: Politics, Strategy and Statecraft, edited by Richard Toye (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), 153-170.
鈥淭he Man Who Wasn鈥檛 There: Cordell Hull, Bretton Woods, and the Creation of GATT,鈥 in Global Perspectives of the Bretton Woods Conference and the Postwar World Order, Giles Scott-Smith and J. Simon Role, Editors (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
鈥淭he Four Freedoms and Global Security: A Legacy for Today and Tomorrow,鈥 marking the 75th anniversary of FDR鈥檚 Four Freedoms Address, in Zeeuws Tijdschrift, the Netherlands, 2016.
鈥淔ranklin D. Roosevelt and the Progressive Tradition,鈥 Co-authored with Alan Brinkley in Progressive Politics in America: Past, Present and Future, Oxford University Press, January 2016.
鈥淧rogressivism Past and Present: FDR, Obama and the Search for a New, New Deal,鈥 in Progressivmus in den USA, (Wissenscaftlicher Verlag Trier, January 2015).
鈥淎n American Perspective on Cold War Origins,鈥 in Out of the Cold: The Cold War and its Legacy, ed. by Michael R. Fitzgerald and Allen Packwood, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2013.
Churchill and Roosevelt: The Birth of the Anglo-American 鈥淪pecial Relationship鈥 for the Churchill Archive Online (at ), published by Bloomsbury Academic 2012.
鈥淐anada, Mackenzie King and the St. Pierre and Miquelon Crisis of 1941,鈥 published in the London Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 24, February 2010.
鈥淓pilogue: Reflections on Legacy and Leadership鈥擳he View from 2008,鈥 in FDR鈥檚 World: War Peace and Legacies, Palgrave Macmillan, November 2008.
Article on the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the legacy of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, for the Churchill Review, the newsletter for Churchill College and the Churchill College Archives Fall 2003.
鈥淐oming to Grips with the 鈥楪erman Problem鈥: Roosevelt, Churchill and the Morgenthau Plan at the Second Quebec Conference,鈥 in The Second Quebec Conference Revisited, ed. by David B. Woolner, The FERI Series on Diplomatic and Economic History, St. Martin鈥檚 Press, New York, October 1998.
Published Reviews
De Lavera and Roosevelt: Irish and American Diplomacy in Times of Crisis, 1932-1939, published in H-Diplo, March 2022.
鈥淗ow Churchill Waged War: Unpicking the Mythical Status,鈥 by Allen Packwood, published in The Irish Times, November 12, 2019.
鈥淭he Kremlin Letters: Stalin鈥檚 wartime writing to Churchill and Roosevelt,鈥 edited by David Reynolds and Vladimir Pechatnov, published in The Irish Times, Saturday, January 26, 2019.
鈥淏uckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the Sixties,鈥 by Kevin M. Schultz, published in The Irish Times, January 9, 2016.
鈥淜issinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist review: new look at 鈥榓moral realist,鈥欌 published in The Irish Times, October 3, 2015.
鈥淎merica鈥檚 Pastor review: when Billy Graham talked the talk,鈥 a review of America鈥檚 Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation, by Grant Wacker, published in The Irish Times, Saturday, May 23, 2015.
鈥淲hy the 鈥榳ar to end all wars鈥 lingers on: The Long Shadow 鈥 The Great War and the Twentieth Century,鈥 a review of The Long Shadow, by David Reynolds, published in The Irish Times, Saturday June 28, 2014.
鈥淩ussia, Crimea and the Wisdom of a Cold War Strategist,鈥 a review of The Kennan Diaries, edited by Frank Costigliola, published in The Irish Times, Saturday, May 17, 2014.
鈥淚nto the bear pit: the fate of Theodore Roosevelt鈥檚 muckraking friends,鈥 a review of The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, published in The Irish Times, February 1, 2014.
FDR and the Jews, by Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman, the Journal of American History, Summer, 2014
American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II, by Andrew Buchanan, forthcoming in H-Diplo, HNET: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, summer 2015.
Class and Power in the New Deal: Corporate Moderates; Southern Democrats and the Liberal-Labor Coalition, by G. William Domhoff and Michael J. Webber, International History Review, Spring 2014.
Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1933-1945, edited by Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart, and Severin Hochberg, Hudson River Valley Review, Fall 2009.
鈥淭ransition of Power: Britain鈥檚 Loss of Global Pre-eminence to the United States,鈥 by B.J.C. McKercher, Albion, Summer 2000.
Creative Work
Historical Advisor for the Ken Burns-Lynn Novick/Florentine Films documentary, The U. S. and the Holocaust, aired on PBS, September 2022
Historical Consultant for Ken Burns/Florentine Films documentary: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, to air on PBS, Fall 2014.
Historical Consultant for BBC Documentary, World War II: 1945 and the Wheelchair President, written and Narrated by David Reynolds, to air on the BBC May 2015.
One of two principal writers for the fdr4freedoms Digital Resource, the online educational resource covering the New Deal and World War II for the FDR Four Freedoms Park, January-December 2013.
Historical Consultant/on air commentator for History Channel production 24 Hours After: FDR and Pearl Harbor to be aired on the History Channel December 7, 2011.
Historical Consultant for the HBO/BBC film, 鈥淚nto the Storm: Churchill at War鈥 produced by Frank Doelger and written by Hugh Whitemore, aired on HBO and the BBC, May 2009.
Script Advisor for the HBO Film, 鈥淩oosevelt at Warm Springs,鈥 starring Kenneth Branagh as FDR, aired in April 2005 on HBO.
Principle Writer/Creative Consultant for a permanent exhibit on U.S.- Canadian relations entitled, 鈥淎 Legacy of Friendship,鈥 housed in the Edmund Muskie Visitors Center, Roosevelt Campobello International Park, Campobello Island, New Brunswick, June 2004.
Historical/Program Consultant to the Lincoln Presidential Libraries Project, Springfield Illinois, Spring 2002.
Historic and Diplomatic consultant to Home Box Office in association with the D-Day anniversary release of the HBO mini-series, 鈥淏and of Brothers,鈥 produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, June 6, 2001, Normandy France.
Selected Talks, Conferences, and Academic Conference Presentations
鈥淭he Legacy of a Dying President: Franklin Roosevelt in his Last 100 Days鈥 address delivered to students and faculty of the Global Affairs Institute, the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg Virgina, October 31, 2025
鈥淭he Architect: Franklin Roosevelt and the Foundations of Modern America,鈥 guest lecture delivered to students in Presidential History Program at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 31, 2025
鈥淭he Road Not Taken: Franklin Roosevelt and the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb,鈥 a public lecture delivered to the Sasakawa USA Policy Briefing Series, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, Washington, D.C., October 29, 2025
鈥淔ranklin Roosevelt, the United Nations, and the Creation of the Postwar World,鈥 a talk delivered for the panel entitled America and the World: From the Creation of the United Nations and NATO to the America First Agenda, at the annual American Dreams Reconsidered Conference, Roosevelt University, Chicago, October 23, 2025
鈥淔ranklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressive Tradition,鈥 a talk delivered at the Theodore Roosevelt Association annual meeting and conference, the FDR Presidential Library, October 18, 2025
Co-Moderator/Presenter for a discussion entitled, 鈥淭he Role of American in Shaping the World Order of the Future鈥 for the Salzburg Global America Studied Program, 鈥淲hat Next for the U.S. What Next for America in the World,鈥 Salzburg Austria, September 17-20, 2025.
鈥淔ranklin Roosevelt and the Atomic Bomb鈥攕ome unanswered questions about a dying president in his last 100 days,鈥 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 15, 2025
Lead Scholar for 鈥淭he Great Depression, the New Deal and World War II,鈥 a week-long summer professional develop program for K-12 teachers sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, Marist University, July 20-24, 2025.
Co-Moderator for a discussion with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz over his book, The Road to Freedom: Economic and the Good Society, a public program sponsored by the Center for American Studies and the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies, (DIAS) Southern Danish University, Odense, Denmark, May 14,2025
鈥淟ife and Legacy: Remembering FDR 80 Years On,鈥 a public conversation examining the legacy and leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt with the Director of the FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY, April 10, 2025
鈥淩econsidering Clyde Millier and the Institute for the Study of Propaganda,鈥 paper delivered to the conference, Exploring Propaganda in the 1930s and Today, held at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, November 15, 2024
鈥淔ranklin Roosevelt and the Struggle for Democracy: How the Past Might Inform Today鈥檚 Polarized World,鈥 presented at a public program that examines the 2024 US presidential election and the outlook for American Democracy, held at the Center for American Studies, Southern Danish University, Odense, Denmark, October 3-4, 2024.
Facilitator and Participant in the Salzburg Global Seminar American Studies Program, Crossing the Pacific: The Asian American Experience in U.S. Society and Discourse, Salzburg, Austria, September 18-21, 2024
鈥淔ranklin Roosevelt and the Struggle for Democracy in a Troubled World,鈥 presented at the public symposium, Quo Vadis, America?, the Swedish Institute for North American Studies, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, June 4, 2024鈥淰oices of Dissent: Eleanor Roosevelt and the internment of Japanese Americans in the Second World War,鈥 paper delivered at the European Associations of American Studies Conference, 鈥1924-2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited,鈥 Munich Germany, April 5, 2024
鈥淔ranklin Roosevelt, Niels Bohr, and the Atomic Bomb 鈥 some unanswered questions about a dying president in his last 100 days,鈥 Niels Bohr Archives/Institute, Copenhagen, March 11, 2024
鈥淎pplying Your Expertise Beyond Academia,鈥 Keynote address to the International Ph.D. Seminar, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), Middelburg, The Netherlands, December 7, 2024
鈥淔ranklin D. Roosevelt and the November Pogroms鈥攁 Turing Point on the Road to War?鈥, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University, November 30, 2023
鈥淔DR in his Last 100 Days: Setting the World on the Path to Peace,鈥 academic lecture delivered to faculty and students at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universitat, Berlin, October 30, 2023.
鈥淢eeting the Challenge: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Promotion of Democracy in a Troubled World,鈥 the Central American Institute of Public Administration, San Jos茅, Costa Rica, March 14, 2023.
鈥淒issenting Voice to EO 9066: Elanor Roosevelt,鈥 public talk marking the 24th annual Freedom Walk, in Washington D.C., sponsored by the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation, the Japanese American Veterans Association, and the D.C. Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, delivered online, Saturday, April 2, 2022.
鈥淭he Last Mission: FDR, Ibn Saud and the Question of Israel,鈥 presented at the virtual conference, Examining American Responses to the Holocaust, Digital Possibilities, the FDR Presidential Library, October 13, 2021
鈥淔DR鈥檚 Appeal to Ibn Saud at the Great Bitter Lake, February 1945,鈥 lecture delivered to the faculty of the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Oct. 13, 2021
鈥淪etting the World on the Path to Peace: FDR in his Last 100 Days,鈥 a public lecture delivered at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense Denmark, Oct. 12, 2021
鈥淔DR and the Question of Race,鈥 Lecture delivered to faculty and students of the American Studies Department, the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Oct. 7, 2021
鈥淔ranklin D. Roosevelt, Russia and the Creation of the Postwar World,鈥 paper presented via zoom to the conference War. Society. Diplomacy. The 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War,鈥 organized by the National Committee of Russian Historians, Moscow, June 23-25, 2021
鈥淓leanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights鈥 Public Lecture delivered via zoom, sponsored by the American Embassy, Moscow, and hosted by the American Cultural Center of the Russian State Library System, October 22, 2020
鈥淎 Shared Desire for Peace: Franklin Roosevelt, US-Russian Relations, and the Founding of the United Nations,鈥 Public Lecture delivered to students and faculty of Smolny College, University of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia, December 9, 2019.
鈥淏ack to the Roots: FDR, Henry Wallace and Freedom from Want,鈥 Keynote Address derived to the Futures of Food Conference, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg, the Netherlands, October 11, 2019
鈥淐oming to Terms with the American Century: FDR in his Last 100 Days鈥 paper delivered to the annual Transatlantic Studies Conference, Lancaster University, U.K., July 8-10, 2019
鈥淭he Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace,鈥 a presentation to the University of Virginia鈥檚 Miller Center for Presidential Scholarship, Charlottesville, Virginia, Feb. 1, 2019
鈥淔DR, Winston Churchill, and the Four Freedoms,鈥 remarks delivered for The Art and Leadership of Winston Churchill, a special event marking the unveiling of President George W. Bush鈥檚 portrait of Winston Churchill, at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, Dallas Texas, June 26, 2018
鈥淔DR in his Last 100 Days,鈥 a talk and conversation at the National World War II Museum, New Orleans, March 14, 2018
鈥淎merica First or America Alone? FDR鈥檚 Last 100 Days and the National Security Policy of Donald J. Trump,鈥 the Louisville Committee on Foreign Relations, Louisville Kentucky, March 7, 2018.
鈥淩oosevelt and the Russians: The Legacy of the Last 100 Days,鈥 The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis Minnesota, February 23, 2018.
鈥淔DR, Donald Trump and the Failed Legacy of Barak Obama,鈥 Trump鈥檚 America Conference, the Clinton Institute of American Studies, University College Dublin, May 2017.
鈥淔DR and Donald Trump: A Tale of Two Populists,鈥 the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Feb. 2, 2017.
鈥淒onald Trump and the Future of FDR鈥檚 World,鈥 Reflection and Projection: The New Administration and Grand Strategy, Richmond University, London, Jan. 2017.
鈥溾橳he Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself:鈥 FDR, Donald Trump, and the Future of American Progressivism,鈥 the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universit盲t Berlin, Dec. 2016.
鈥淗ow did we Get Here? An Analysis of the Election of President Donald J. Trump,鈥 Northumbria University, Newcastle, U.K., Dec. 2016.
鈥淎merica at a Crossroads? The Progressive Tradition and the Election of 2016,鈥 Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg, Germany, April 18, 2016.
鈥淭he Four Freedoms and Global Security: A Legacy for Today and Tomorrow,鈥 Burgerzaal, Town Hall Middelburg, Netherlands, January 25, 2015.
鈥淭owards the Marshall Plan: World War II and the Reconstruction of Europe,鈥 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Yale University, November 12, 2015.
鈥淔DR and the Creation of the Postwar International Order,鈥 paper delivered to the conference, The Second World War in the History of Humanity, 1939-1945, Moscow State University, September 15-17, 2015.
鈥淔DR, Stalin, and the Grand Alliance in Context,鈥 paper delivered to the annual Transatlantic Studies Conference, Middelburg, The Netherlands, July 10, 2015.
鈥淓leanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,鈥 presented at 鈥淔reedom鈥檚 Documents,鈥 an educational workshop for high school teachers organized by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History at the Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 23, 2015.
鈥淔ranklin Roosevelt, the Azores and the Construction of a Sustainable World鈥 keynote address to the Fourth Franklin D. Roosevelt Azorean Forum, Pico Island, Azores, April 8-9, 2015.
鈥淭he Man who wasn鈥檛 there: Cordell Hull, Bretton Woods and the Creation of GATT,鈥 presented at the conference, The U.N. and the Post-War World Order: Bretton Woods in Perspective, Roosevelt Study Center, September 17-18, 2014.
鈥楩DR, the Grand Alliance and the Creation of the United Nations鈥 presented to the annual Transatlantic Studies Association Conference, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, July 7-10, 2014.
鈥淲hat the U.S. Media is not telling us about the Crisis in Ukraine,鈥 a public lecture delivered to the Hudson Valley World Affairs Council, June 4, 2014; and Vassar Temple, October 7, 2014.
鈥淭he Idea of Progressivism in Domestic and Foreign Policy in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,鈥 presented at the Spring Seminar in American History, Moscow State University, April 22, 2014.
Panelist for Intervention鈥擜n American Dilemma, with authors Lynne Olson and David Nasaw moderated by former producer of the PBS News Hour, Lester M. Crystal, at the President鈥檚 Forum, Westchester Community College, November 24, 2013.
鈥淔DR and the Creation of the Post-war World,鈥 presented at Progressivism in America: Past Present and Future, a conference sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Clinton Institute for American Studies, at University College, Dublin, Ireland, November 8-9, 2013.
鈥淔ranklin D. Roosevelt鈥檚 Economic Bill of Rights: A Lesson for Today?鈥 presented at the Columbia University Seminar on Full Employment, Columbia University Faculty House, Oct. 18, 2013.
鈥淎merica on the Brink of Collapse: FDR and the Launch of the New Deal,鈥 presented at the symposium: 1933鈥A Transformative Year in American and World History, the Henry A. Wallace Center September 18, 2013.
Principal organizer, Progressivism in America: Past Present and Future, a conference sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College, Dublin, Ireland, November 8-9, 2013.
Principal organizer for the symposium, 1933鈥 A Transformative Year in American and World History, the Henry A. Wallace Center September 18, 2013.
鈥淭he Private Diplomacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt,鈥 paper presented at the conference, Reframing Diplomacy: New Diplomatic History in the Benelux and Beyond, Sept. 6-7, 2013, Leiden University.
鈥淭he Great Recession and the Great Depression: What FDR鈥檚 Leadership Means for America Today,鈥 paper given at the Spring Symposium in American History at Moscow State University, March 27, 2013.
鈥淪earching for Parallels: FDR, Obama, and American Foreign Policy in a Troubled World,鈥 lecture presented to the 22nd Annual Diplomatic Studies Roundtable, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Boston MA, November 16, 2012.
鈥淲hy the Election of Barack Obama will not usher in a new, New Deal,鈥 paper presented to the Symposium on the 2012 American Elections at the Institut f眉r Politkwissenschaft of the University of Zurich, Zurich Switzerland, October 25, 2012.
鈥淔ranklin D. Roosevelt: The Reluctant Keynesian?鈥 paper presented to the annual Transatlantic Studies Association Conference, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, July 9-12, 2012.
鈥淗enry Wallace, Franklin Roosevelt and the Relevance of the New Deal for the 21st Century,鈥 public lecture delivered to the Culver Center for Public Policy, Simpson College, Des Moines Iowa, March 14, 2012.
鈥淐ordell Hull, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Anglo-American Response to the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1941,鈥 presented to the annual meeting of the Transatlantic Studies Association, University of Dundee, Scotland, July 12, 2011.
鈥淗eroes or Villains? FDR, Pope Pius XII and the Evolution of Public Thought in Response to the Holocaust鈥 paper presented to the conference, American Responses to the Holocaust: Transatlantic Perspectives, sponsored by the Roosevelt Study Center, the Netherlands-American Studies Association, and the Institute of Jewish Studies University of Antwerp, Middelburg, NL, and Antwerp, Belgium, June 15-17, 2011.
鈥淔ranklin D. Roosevelt; Catalyst for the Creation of the Post-war World,鈥 keynote address to the conference: Succeeding in Emerging and Developing Markets: Understanding How Institutions Impact Firms and Managers, George Washington University Center for Business education and Research, June 7, 2011.
鈥淧rogressivism Past and Present: FDR, Obama and the Search for a New, New Deal,鈥 keynote address to the Annual Conference of Political Scientists in the German Association for American Studies, for the conference, Always on the Defensive? Progressive Movement and Progressive Policies in the US, Lambrecht, Germany, November 12-13, 2011.
鈥淐ordell Hull, Anthony Eden and the Search for Anglo-American Cooperation: 1933-1938,鈥 Andrew Melon Lecture in American History, delivered to the American History Seminar, Cambridge University, November 8, 2011.
鈥淎 New Deal for the 21st Century? Comparing the Legislative Initiatives of Barack Obama and Franklin D. Roosevelt,鈥 the Interdisciplinary Colloquium of American Studies, Heidelburg Center for American studies, Heidelberg Germany, October 14, 2010.
鈥淒etermining the Postwar Legacy of Franklin Roosevelt,鈥 presented at St. Anthony鈥檚 College, Oxford University, British International History Group (BIHG) Conference, September 11, 2010.
鈥淩e-assessing the Eden-Hull Relationship in Depression and War,鈥 presented at the annual Transatlantic Studies Conference, Durham University, July 12-15, 2010.
鈥淐ordell Hull and the Creation of the North Atlantic Triangle, 1933-1938,鈥 paper presented to the British Association of Canadian Studies, Conference, The North Atlantic Triangle 鈥 a Canadian Myth?, Senate House, London, July 16,2010.
Panelist for 鈥淭he Origins of the Cold War from Yalta to Korea,鈥 at the conference, The Cold War and its Legacy, the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
鈥淢ackenzie King and the St. Pierre and Miquelon Crisis,鈥 British-Canadian Studies Association, Canada House, London, July 17, 2009.
鈥淓mbracing Internationalism: Reflections on the Postwar Legacy of Franklin Roosevelt,鈥 presented to the annual Transatlantic Studies Conference, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, England, July 15, 2009.
鈥淩eflections on FDR鈥檚 Foreign Policy,鈥 presented at the conference Restoring America Through a New, New Deal: Policy Priorities for the First 100 Days, at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, November 15, 2008.
鈥淐ordell Hull, the Trade Agreements Act, and the Postwar Economic Order,鈥 paper present to the annual Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Conference, Washington, D.C., June 23-24, 2005.
Invited Speaker/Panelist on Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights for the December 2004 Alliance for a New Humanity Annual Conference, organized by the Alliance for a New Humanity, with the cooperation of Kerry Kennedy, Oscar Arias, the Arias Foundation, and the Albert Schweitzer Institute, San Juan Puerto Rico, December 1-2, 2004.
鈥淐risis in the North Atlantic: The St. Pierre and Miquelon Affair of 1941,鈥 delivered to the 1st annual North Atlantic Triangle Conference, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, England, October 23-24, 2004.
鈥淔DR: A President for the Ages?鈥 public address delivered as part of the University of Prince Edward Island Distinguished Lecture Series, August 18, 2004, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
鈥淩eflections on Cordell Hull and the 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act,鈥 presented at 鈥淭he Role of the WTO System in the World Economy,鈥 sponsored by Cornell University Law School, the Cordell Hull Institute, and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris, France, July 8-10, 2004.
鈥淏etween Appeasement and Provocation: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull and U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1938-1941,鈥 paper delivered to the fifteenth annual British International History Group Conference, University of Nottingham, September 2003.
鈥淭he Special Relationship before the Special Relationship,鈥 paper to be delivered at the Transatlantic Studies Conference, University of Dundee, July 8-11, 2002.
Co-author of the banking/small-business enterprise component of a Diplomatic Protocol on Banking Reform in Russia, prepared by the U.S. Department of Treasury and presented to Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin at the May 2002, Summit Meeting in Moscow.
鈥淔DR, the Press, and Propaganda,鈥 address delivered at the opening of the 鈥淧ropaganda and Dreams鈥 Exhibit at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, June 2000.
鈥楲eadership and Compassion: The Spirit and Legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt,鈥 delivered to the 7th International Conference on Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities, Yonsei University, Seoul South Korea, 1999.
鈥淪pecial Observer鈥 to the 1998 Holocaust-Era Assets Conference, an official gathering of delegations from 44 countries to examine the distribution of property stolen in the Holocaust, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the United States Holocaust Museum, Dec. 1998
Awards and Honors
Recipient of the Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation Fellowship in Roosevelt Studies, a two-year grant that seeks to enhance the legacy of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt through teaching, scholarship and public engagement, September 2024
The Fulbright Denmark Distinguished Scholar Award in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark (2023-2024)
Named a Fulbright Specialist by the Department of State鈥檚 Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, August 2021-2025
The Mary Ball Washington Chair in American History, University College Dublin (2016-2017)
The Roosevelt Fellowship, University College Roosevelt, Middleburg, the Netherlands, (Spring 2016)
Fulbright Research Chair, the Roosevelt Study Center, Middleburg, the Netherlands (Fall 2010).
The Archives By-Fellowship, Churchill College, Cambridge University, (Fall 2007).
Winner NEH Landmarks in American History and Culture Summer Workshops for High School Teachers Grant ($163,000), October 2007
Winner NEH Landmarks in American History and Culture Summer Workshops for High School Teachers Grant ($143,000), October 2006
Summer 2004 NSF Research for Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) Grant, $6,000 in support of additional student research for 鈥淎ccessing FDR鈥檚 America鈥, June 2004
Winner of 鈥淎ccessing FDR鈥檚 America,鈥 $215,000 National Science Foundation (NSF)/Information Technology Research (ITR) Grant in support of research to enhance current search and retrieval methods for humanities data, in collaboration with Nancy Ide, Chair of the Computer Science Department at Vassar College, awarded August 2002.
Winner of a $65,000 Grant from the Cunneen Hackett Charitable Trust in support of Marist/FDRL/FERI Conference, 鈥淩ecovering the Environmental Legacy of FDR,鈥 to be held in October 2002.
Principal author of a $150,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation to fund 鈥淐ontemporary Russia and the New Deal,鈥 a two-year project to explore the relevance of New Deal policies and programs in modern-day Russia, awarded May 2001.
Awarded a $3,000 grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding to speak on 鈥淔DR, the Press, and Propaganda at the opening of the 鈥淧ropaganda and Dreams Exhibit at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, June 2000.
Certificate of Appreciation, in recognition of a special contribution to the Canada Remembers Program, 1994-1995, through the organization of the 1994 Second Quebec Conference, issued by M. Rom茅o LeBlanc, Governor General of Canada, May 1995.
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