MICHAEL E. LATHAM Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College Grinnell College 1121 Park Street, Grinnell, IA 50112 Phone: 641-269-3100; Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION: Ph.D. in History, University of California at Los Angeles, 1996. M.A. in History, UCLA, 1993. B.A. in History, Pomona College, 1989, summa cum laude.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College, 2014-Present. Professor of History, Grinnell College, 2014-Present Dean, Fordham College at Rose Hill, 2010 to 2014. Interim Dean, Fordham College at Rose Hill, 2009 to 2010. Professor, Fordham University, 2010 to 2014. Associate Professor, Fordham University, 2002 to 2010. Assistant Professor, Fordham University, 1996 to 2002. Instructor, UCLA, Spring Terms 1994 and 1995.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College, 2014-Present. Chief Academic Officer for an outstanding, nationally ranked liberal arts college of 1650 students and 210 faculty offering programs across the arts and sciences disciplines. In addition to Academic Affairs, direct reports and responsibilities include the Division of Student Affairs, the Chief Diversity Officer, the Office of Corporate, Foundation, and Government Relations, Academic Advising, the Library, the Registrar, Athletics, the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, and the Faulconer Art Gallery. Responsible for academic strategic planning and collaborative management of the academic share of the College’s total budget. Engages in collaborative governance with the Chair of the Faculty, the Department Chairs, and the Executive Council to promote initiatives in student research, global education, and interdisciplinary programs. Oversees the Higher Learning Commission accreditation process with the Office of Institutional Research and the Assessment Committee. Responsible for faculty development programs, faculty position offers and negotiations, and convenes the faculty Personnel Committee. Works closely with the Office of Development and Alumni Relations to support the college’s capital campaign. Manages four Associate Deans, and a supporting clerical staff. Reports to President. Dean, Fordham College at Rose Hill, Fordham University, 2010-2014.

2 Lead academic officer for the oldest and largest of Fordham University’s schools, an undergraduate liberal arts college of 3,600 students and 275 faculty offering 45 major courses of study. Responsible for strategic planning, advancement of academic programs, collaborative management of the academic share of the college’s total $114 million budget, implementation of the core curriculum, oversight of integrated learning communities, programs in undergraduate research, international education, academic advising, and the allocation of discretionary funds. Collaborated with faculty and administrative colleagues on faculty personnel decisions and faculty development. Convened the College Council to address curricular matters. Promoted the college’s academic goals through the University Capital Campaign in coordination with the Office of Development and University Relations. Supported the Office of Admissions in recruiting outstanding students and oversaw the Office of Academic Advising for Student Athletes. Managed an academic team including two Associate Deans, six Assistant Deans, five Academic Advisors, and a supporting clerical staff. Reported to the Provost. Chair, Tenure and Reappointment Appeals Committee (TRAC), Fordham University, 2008-2009. Chair of the Faculty Senate committee responsible for the investigation and evaluation of contested faculty personnel decisions. Coordinated the work of a body drawn from all of the University’s schools and made recommendations to the Chief Academic Officer and the President. Chair, Search Committee for University Librarian, Fordham University, 2012 Led national search for University Librarian to manage a multi-campus library system encompassing 2.2 million volumes and 85 staff. Associate Chair for Undergraduate Study, Department of History, Fordham University, 20042007. Responsible for the administration of one of the college’s largest majors. Planned core and elective offerings, scheduled courses, advised students, led planning for a new major under the core curriculum, and collaborated with the Honors Program. Director, Program in International Political Economy, Fordham College at Rose Hill, 2003-2004. Responsible for the administration of a distinctive interdisciplinary program integrating the study of international affairs, economics, and politics. Advised students, collaborated with relevant departments. Member, Academic Advisory Council, The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies, 2010-present. Serves as a board member representing institutions affiliated with the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU). Provides guidance and direction for a collaborative undergraduate program in Chinese studies, focusing on language, politics, history, and culture. Senator, Fordham University Faculty Senate, 2003-2007. Member of the University governance body representing and advocating for all faculty. Engaged in policy decisions with colleagues and in discussion with the university’s senior leadership. Member of Fordham University Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 2003-2004. Planned the Senate agenda in collaboration with the Senate officers, addressed policy questions regarding the faculty role in university governance. Member of Fordham University Faculty Senate Committee on Salary and Benefits, 1998-2000, 2001-2004. Represented and advocated for the interests of faculty on matters of compensation in discussions with the university’s senior leadership. Member, Middle States Accreditation Task Force on Educational Offerings, Fordham University, 2004-2005.

3 Contributed to the university report to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Assisted in drafting the section on Educational Offerings and evaluated institutional data on enrollment and student evaluations. Member of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Fellowships Committee, Fordham University, 2002-2004. Selected graduate student fellowship recipients in consultation with faculty colleagues. Member, Arts and Sciences Council Nominating Committee, Fordham University, 2008-2009. Nominated faculty for membership on the University Arts and Sciences Council committees pertaining to the administration and implementation of curriculum.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (MLE), June, 2012. Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU), Leadership Seminar, June, 2010.

MAJOR FIELDS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING: Twentieth-Century American History, History of American Foreign Relations, U.S. Political History, Intellectual History.

PUBLICATIONS: Books: The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building” in the Kennedy Era. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. (Chinese edition translated by Niu Ke. Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press, 2003). Edited Books: 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. 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, 258-280. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. “What Price Victory? American Intellectuals and the Problem of Cold War Democracy.” In The Columbia History of Post-World War II America, edited by Marc C. Carnes, 402-424. 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.

4 “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. “Introduction: Modernization, International History, and the Cold War World.” In Staging Growth: Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War, edited by David Engerman, Nils Gilman, Mark Haefele, and Michael Latham, 1-22. Amherst: University of Massachusetts 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. “A Critical Look at Foucault: The Problem of Modernization Theory.” UCLA Historical Journal 15 (1995): 24-36 Reviews and Essays: Review: The Other Cold War, by Heonik Kwon. Journal of Cold War Studies, forthcoming. Review: Return From the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War, by Peter Mandler. Journal of Cold War Studies 16 (Winter 2014): 253-55. “Development at War.” Review of Armed Humanitarians: The Rise of the Nation Builders, by Nathan Hodge. Humanity 4 (Summer 2013): 329-36. Review: Liberty’s Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama, by Jeremi Suri. Journal of American History 99 (December 2012): 876. Review: The End of the Cold War and the Third World: New Perspectives on Regional Conflict, ed. Artemy Kalinovsky and Sergey Radchenko. H-Diplo Roundtable Review 13 (2012), www.hnet.org/~diplo/roundtables. “America’s Africa.” Feature Review of Secular Missionaries: Americans and African Development in the 1960s, by Larry Grubbs. Diplomatic History 35 (November 2011): 937-40. Review: The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia, by Nick Cullather. American Historical Review 116 (June 2011): 831-32. Review: RAND in Southeast Asia: A History of the Vietnam War Era, by Mai Elliott. Pacific Affairs 84 (March 2011): 195-97. Review: Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, by Matthew Connelly. Cold War History 9 (May 2009): 287-88.

5 Review: America’s Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War, by David Milne. Journal of American Studies 43 (April 2009): 145-46. Review: The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945-1965, by Amy L. S. Staples. Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 39 (April 2008): 1820. Review: The Eisenhower Administration, The Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War, edited by Kathryn C. Statler and Andrew L. Johns. Journal of Cold War Studies 10 (Winter 2008): 173-75. “Modernization.” In The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences,2nd Edition, edited by William A. Darity, Vol. 5, 232-34. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2008. Review: The Pentagon’s Battle for the American Mind: The Early Cold War, by Lori Lyn Bogle. Journal of American History 92 (December 2005): 118. “High-Modernist Dreams and Nightmares.” Feature Review of Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development, by David C. Engerman, and Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America, by Nils Gilman. Diplomatic History 29 (September 2005): 733-38. Review: The Social Sciences Go to Washington, edited by Hamilton Cravens. American Historical Review 110 (February 2005): 185-86. “Progressive Internationalism and the Road Not Taken.” Review of Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution, by Alan Dawley. Reviews in American History 31 (December 2003): 588-95. Review: Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela, by Darlene Rivas. American Historical Review 108 (June 2003): 883-84. Review: The Imperial Mantle: The United States, Decolonization, and the Third World, by David D. Newsom. Peace and Change 28 (June 2003): 477-80. Editorial: “Where Will ‘Liberation’ Lead?” Watertown (NY) Daily Times, April 18, 2003. Also distributed by History News Service, History News Network. Review: The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex, by Ron Robin. Journal of American History 88 (March 2002): 1597. Review: Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945, edited by John Lewis Gaddis, et al. Journal of Military History 64 (Summer 2000): 904-905. “Gardiner C. Means.” In The American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Marc C. Carnes, 15:222-223. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. “W. Arthur Lewis.” In The American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Marc C. Carnes, 13: 609-611. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Editorial: “Test-Ban Treaty Vote Ignores Cold War’s Lessons.” The Buffalo News, October 24, 1999. Review: Robert Kennedy: Brother Protector, by James W. Hilty. America 178 (March 14, 1998): 39-41.

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FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS: Fordham University Teaching Award, Undergraduate Teaching in the Social Sciences, 2007. Faculty Fellow, Collegium Colloquy on Faith and Intellectual Life, 2004. Faculty Fellowships, Fordham University, Spring, 2003, Spring 2008. Visiting Faculty, Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, People's Republic of China, 2000-2001. Stipend for Workshop in Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, 2000. Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 1998 (co-winner). Alternate for Mellon Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1998. Foundation Research Grant, Lyndon B. Johnson Library, 1994, 1997. Dissertation Fellowship, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation,1995-1996. Schlesinger Research Fellowship, John F. Kennedy Library, 1994. Four-Year Departmental Fellowship, UCLA, 1991-1995. National Finalist, Rhodes Scholarship Competition, 1989. Phi Beta Kappa, Pomona College, 1989.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS: Co-author with Randall Stiles and Kaitlin Wilcox, “Student Success at the Liberal Arts College,” Higher Learning Commission, Chicago, IL, April 17-19, 2016. Co-author with Randall Stiles and Kaitlin Wilcox, “Key Findings from a Conference on Student Success at the Liberal Arts College,” National Symposium on Student Retention, Orlando, FL, November 2-4, 2015. Commentator, Session on “Development and Its Evangelists in the Cold War,” Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, New York, February 17, 2012. “U.S Foreign Policy and International Development: From Modernization to Neoliberalism,” Invited Lecture at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, August 20, 2010. “The American Crisis of Modernization and the Neoliberal Triumph,” presented at the Beijing Forum Conference, Beijing, China, November 9, 2008. “The Cold War in the Third World” and “Confronting Revolution: The USA and NationBuilding in South Vietnam,” Invited Lectures at Beijing University, Beijing, China, November 56, 2008.

7 “The Crisis of Modernization and Its Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy,” Invited Lecture at the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, October 3, 2008. Commentator and Chair, Session on “Minds at War: Expertise and the National Security State, 1945-1968,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Chantilly, VA, June 22, 2007. “Pacific Lynching: Rape, Race, and the Tensions of Empire in Territorial Hawai‘i” Invited Lecture at the University of Connecticut, November 10, 2006. “The Cold War in the Third World, 1963-1975,” presented at the Cambridge University Press Conference on the History of the Cold War, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, September 16, 2006. Commentator and Chair, Session on “Local Community and the Imperial Horizon: U.S. Globalism through Community Development,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Hartford, October 19, 2003. Commentator and Chair, Session on “Copper, Cartoons, and Communists: Perceiving Threats in Cold War Chile,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., June 7, 2003. “Modernization and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam,” Invited Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 17, 2003. “Knowledge at War: American Social Science and Vietnam,” Invited Lecture at Rice University, Houston, March 21, 2002. "Knowledge at War: American Social Science and Vietnam," presented at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Toronto, June 24, 2000. Commentator and Chair, Session on “Historicizing Modernization Theory,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 9, 2000. “Modernization Theory, American Ideology, and Cold War Crisis,” presented at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Conference, “Beyond the First World: 1968 and the Crisis of Modernization,” Tokyo, Japan, December 2, 1999. Commentator and Chair, Session on “Reconstructing the Narrative of 20th-Century U.S. Foreign Relations,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, College Park, MD, June 20, 1998. “Imagining Vietnam: Exceptionalism and Mission,” presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, April 4, 1998. “Modernization as Theory and Practice,” presented at the Cambridge University Press Conference in the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., May 16, 1997. “Modernization as Ideology,” presented at the Columbia University Workshop in International Relations Theory and Diplomatic History, New York, April 29, 1997. “Modernization, American Social Science, and the Cold War,” presented at the St. John's University History Colloquium, Jamaica, NY, March 4, 1997.

8 “The Strategic Hamlet Program in Vietnam,” presented at the Pomona College International Relations Colloquium, Claremont, CA, May 2, 1996. “Nation Building and Rebuilding: The Alliance for Progress and the Ideology of Modernization,” presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 31, 1996.

COURSES TAUGHT: Fordham College at Rose Hill: Intro. to Modern American History (Core Course and Freshman Writing Seminar) America in the Shadow of War (Manresa Freshman Writing Seminar) Contemporary History 1800-Present (Fordham College Honors Program) American Foreign Relations Since 1898 (History Elective) America Since 1945 (History Elective) International History of the Vietnam War (History/Global Studies Elective) 20th-Century American Radicalism (History Elective) History and Theory (History Elective) The United States and Imperialism (History Seminar) The National Security State (History Seminar) Morality and Violence in Modern Warfare (History/Senior Values Seminar) American Studies Senior Seminar (American Studies Major) Ignatian Education Seminar Fordham University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences The Global Cold War (M.A. Elective) The U.S. and the 20th-Century World (M.A. Elective) America Since 1945: History and Historiography (M.A. Elective) Advanced Readings in American History (M.A. Elective) The Vietnam Wars (M.A. Elective) Proseminar/Seminar in U.S. History (M.A. Thesis Requirement) International Security and Development (M.A. Elective) Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies American Diplomatic History Cold War America U.S. History to 1877 20th-Century U.S. History UCLA, Undergraduate College Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective (History Elective)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Manuscript and Proposal Referee for: --American Historical Review --Journal of American History --Diplomatic History --Journal of Global History --Pacific Historical Review --Journal of Cold War Studies --Cold War History --Journal of Southeast Asian Studies --International Studies Quarterly --Political Science Quarterly --International Journal of Middle East Studies

9 --Humanity --University of North Carolina Press --Duke University Press --Columbia University Press --Oxford University Press --Cambridge University Press --Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada --National Science Foundation

UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: Freshman Adviser, Fordham College at Rose Hill, 1997-1998, 2007-2009, 2012-present. Sophomore Adviser, Fordham College at Rose Hill, 1998-2000, 2008-2009, 2013-present. Member, Dean’s Task Force on Campus Culture, Fordham College at Rose Hill, 1999-2000. Advisor, Matteo Ricci Scholarship Society, Fordham College, 1997-2000, 2004-2009. Member of American Studies Executive Committee, Fordham College, 1998-2000, 2002-2003, 2007. Service for Department of History, Fordham University: --Search Committee Co-Chair, Paul and Diane Guenther Endowed Chair, 2008-2009. --Search Committee Chair, History of Technology, 2004-2005. --Merit Committee Member, 2004-2007. --Department Planning Committee Member, 1999-2000. --Undergraduate Education Committee Member, 1996-2000, 2004-2007. Selection Committee, Phi Beta Kappa, Fordham University, 1997-2000. Professor, Teaching American History, Federally Funded Teachers’ Seminar, Bronx Region Public High Schools and Middle Schools, Bronx, New York, October-December, 2008. Professor, Enduring Themes in American History, Federally Funded Teachers’ Seminar, Teachers College, Columbia University, November-December, 2006. Lead Historian, Federally Funded American History Summer Institute, Columbia University Teachers College, 2005. Faculty Lecturer, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: --West Morris Mendham High School, Mendham, NJ, March 24, 2009. --Brooklyn Teachers’ Conference, Brooklyn, NY, January 29, 2008. --Palm Beach County Teachers’ Conference, Boca Raton, FL, December 18-19, 2007. --Catholic School Teachers’ Conference, Bronx, NY, December 11, 2007. --Frederick Douglass Academy, Harlem, NY, June 12, 2007. --Herbert Lehman College, Bronx, NY, March 24, 2007. --Patchogue-Medford Teachers’ Seminar, Patchogue, NY, December 12, 2006. --Junior Historians’ Forum, Hyde Park, NY, June 9, 2006. --District History Teachers’ Conference, Cardozo High School, Queens, NY, Nov. 4, 1997. --Truman High School Teachers’ Conference, Bronx, NY, May 20, 1997. --Faculty Speaker, New York State Council for Social Studies Annual Meeting, Rye Brook, NY, March 18, 1999. External Examiner, Doctoral Committee for:

10 Christopher Fisher, Rutgers University, 1999-2001. Theodore Charles Stallone, Columbia University, Winter, 1996-1997.

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