Emory University (Atlanta, GA)

Doctoral Candidate in American History. Dissertation title: "Danger and Opportunity: Eisenhower, Churchill, and the Soviet Union After Stalin, 1953-1955."

Master of Arts in History, May 1994

Washington State University (Pullman, WA), May 1988

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Summa Cum Laude. Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literatures (Russian), Summa Cum Laude. Honors Program Certificate with International Emphasis. Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Alpha Theta. Pi Sigma Alpha. Phi Kappa Phi.

 

"American Plans to Exploit Stalin’s Death and End the Cold War, 1953," paper delivered at the Anglo-American Conference of Historians, "War and Peace," Institute for Historical Research, University of London, 5-7 July 2000.

"Choices to be Made: American Policy and Stalin’s Death," paper delivered at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, North Carolina Central University, 15 April 2000.

"The Stalin Succession and American Perceptions of a Power Struggle," paper delivered at the Great Lakes History Conference, "Historical Perspectives on Diplomacy and Negotiation," Grand Valley State University, 2-3 October 1998.

"The Life Cycle of the Professional Slavicist—Concerns and Strategies," roundtable participant at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies conference, Boca Raton, 24-27 September 1998.

"American Plans to Exploit Stalin’s Death and End the Cold War, 1953," paper delivered at the American Historical Association—Pacific Coast Branch conference, University of San Diego, 6-9 August 1998.

"The Initial Western Reaction to Stalin’s Death and the Impact upon Allied Cold War Policy Toward the Soviet Union," paper delivered at the 1997 Bluegrass Symposium, "Exploring New Directions in the History of American Foreign Relations," University of Kentucky, 28 February-2 March 1997.

"The REES Resource Center," presentation for "Infusing Russian & East European Dimensions into the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Workshop for Post-Secondary Faculty presented by the Center for Russian & East European Studies," Emory University, 11 October 1996.

"After Stalin: Winston Churchill and the Search for a Détente, 1953-1955: Tales and Evidence from the British Archives," presentation for the Atlanta Branch of the English-Speaking Union, 18 April 1995.

 

Book review, Russia and the World, 1917-1991 by Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Russian History/Histoire Russe, forthcoming.

Encyclopedia entries (Robert McFarlane, Richard Secord, Caspar Weinberger, and Brendan Sullivan), Historical Dictionary of United States Independent Counsel Investigations (Westport, C.T.: Greenwood Publishing Group, forthcoming).

Book review, Three Eras of Political Change in Eastern Europe by Gale Stokes, Ethnos-Nation: Eine Europäische Zeitschrift/A European Journal, forthcoming.

Book review, War of the Black Heavens: The Battles of Western Broadcasting in the Cold War by Michael Nelson for the H-Diplo listserve, July 1999, http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/.

Book review, Nations Without States: A Historical Dictionary of Contemporary National Movements by James Minahan, Ethnos-Nation: Eine Europäische Zeitschrift/A European Journal, 6 (1-2) (1998) [can be viewed at: http://www.rrz.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/soeg/ethnos/].

Book review, Eastern European Nationalism in the Twentieth Century, edited by Peter Sugar, Ethnos-Nation: Eine Europäische Zeitschrift/A European Journal, 6 (1-2) (1998) [can be viewed at http://www.rrz.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/soeg/ethnos].

Book review, The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War by Ilya V. Gaiduk, for the H-Russia listserve, June 1998 (cross-posted on H-War), http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/.

Book review, Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961 by Walter L. Hixson, American Graduate: An e-journal of Social and Cultural History for Graduate Students 1 (1) (September 1997), http://www.usm.edu/~history/american_graduate/

Book review, Patriotic Culture in Russia during World War I by Hubertus Jahn. Nationalities Papers, 24 (4) (December 1996), pp. 768-9.

 

Coach of the Classroom teaching certificate, Department of Athletics, Campbell University, November 1999.

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship in Russian (FLAS), Center for Russian & East European Studies, Emory University: 1996-97, 1995-96, spring 1995, and summer 1994.

Myrna Bernath Research Fellowship, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (Russia), 1995.

Research/Travel Grant, English Speaking Union of the United States-Atlanta Branch (Great Britain), 1995 and 1994.

Research/Travel Grant, Institute of International Education (Great Britain), 1994.