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50th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

SHAFR @ 50

June 23-25, 2017Renaissance Arlington Capital ViewArlington, Virginia

Conference Organizers Page 4

Conference at a Glance Page 8

Thursday, June 22 Page 19

Friday, June 23 Page 31

Saturday, June 24 Page 45

Index of Participants Page 59

Conference Venue Page 63

Travel and Parking Page 64

Renaissance Arlington Capital View Floor Plan Inside Back Cover

SHAFR would like to thank the Law Library of Congress for its participation in the 2017annual meeting. SHAFR also thanks the Emory University School of Law for co-sponsoring this year’s Plenary Session and the legal research training event.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Friday, June 23, 6:30 – 9:30 PM

Please join us for a seafood feast on the gorgeous East Pier at National Harbor!

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New England Clam Chowder

Fried Chicken

Corn Bread

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Vegan and vegetarian options available, please specify your preference at registration

Complimentary beer, wine, and soft drinks

TICKETS:$50 standard or $25 student/adjunct/K-12 teacher

$10 additional for round-trip bus transportation

SHAFR DINNER

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PROGRAM COMMITTEERobert Brigham, Vassar College, co-chairAdriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University, co-chair

Debbie Sharnak, University of Wisconsin,graduate assistant

Benjamin Coates, Wake Forest UniversityLisa Pinley Covert, College of Charleston Kurk Dorsey, University of New HampshireThomas Field, Embry-Riddle AeronauticalUniversity

Gretchen Heefner, Northeastern University

Ann Heiss, Kent State UniversityMeredith Oyen, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Sandra Scanlon, University College Dublin

Carla Stephens, Bard Early College High School, Newark

James Wilson, Office of the Historian of the State Department

CONFERENCE COMMITTEEAnn Heiss, Kent State University, chairJason Colby, University of VictoriaElisabeth Leake, University of LeedsAaron O'Connell, University of Texas, Austin

SHAFR OFFICERSMary L. Dudziak, Emory University, President

Peter L. Hahn, Ohio State University, Vice President

Amy L. Sayward, Middle Tennessee State University, Executive Director

SHAFR COUNCILTerry H. Anderson, Texas A&M UniversityAmanda Boczar, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, graduate studentrepresentative

Matthew Connelly, Columbia UniversityAmanda C. Demmer, University of New Hampshire, graduate studentrepresentative

Petra Goedde, Temple UniversityAmy Greenberg, Pennsylvania State University

Julia Irwin, University of South FloridaPaul Kramer, Vanderbilt UniversityKatherine Statler, University of San DiegoFredrik Logevall, Cornell University, past president

Thomas “Tim” Borstlemann, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, past president

David Engerman, Brandeis University, past president

CONFERENCE COORDINATORJulie Laut

DIRECTOR OF INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGYGeorge Fujii

PROGRAM DESIGNGreg Whitlow

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS2017 ANNUAL MEETING

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Panel 8: New Thinking on Old Questions (Studio D)

Panel 9: Rethinking Cold War Liberalism: Human Rights, Nuclear Disarmament, andLiberals in the Late Cold War (Studio E)

Panel 10: The Prize? Energy, Security, and Expertise (Salon 6)

Panel 11: The Public, Congress, and U.S. Foreign Relations: Taking the Long View(Studio F)

COFFEE BREAK: 1:30 – 2:00 PMCoffee, tea, soft drinks, and bottled water will be served in the registration and exhibitarea.

SESSION II: 2:00 – 3:45 PM (PANELS 12 – 23)

Panel 12: Roundtable: Wilson and World War I: New Perspectives (Salon 1)

Panel 13: Counter-Terrorism and the American Experience (Studio A)

Panel 14: Roundtable: Innovative Teaching Resources (Salon 2)

Panel 15: Covert Action, Surveillance, and Propaganda: The Global Reach of SecretU.S. Power in the Early Cold War (Salon 3)

Panel 16: Imperial Transitions: Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States, 1937-1949 (Studio F)

Panel 17: Global Africa and Cold War Diplomacy (Salon 5)

Panel 18: Christian Mission, U.S. Power, and Domestic and Foreign Publics from theEarly Republic to the Cold War (Studio C)

Panel 19: Diplomacy, Development, and Human Rights in Cold War Latin America(Studio D)

Panel 20: All Politics is International: The World and American Presidential Elections(Salon 6)

Panel 21: Race, Surveillance, and Transnational Histories of the U.S. Security State(Studio E)

Panel 22: Discourse and Interaction: Decolonization and Its Relationship to AmericanState and Non-State Actors (Salon 7)

CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE

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THURSDAY, 22 JUNE 2017

SHAFR Council meeting: 8:00 AM – 12:45 PM, Studio A

SHAFR Teaching Committee: 8:00 – 10:00 AM, Boardroom

Registration: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Second Floor Reception Area

Book Exhibit: 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM, Second Floor Reception Area

The SHAFR Teaching Committee invites you to visit our table in the exhibit room tolearn more about and contribute to Voices and Visions, a collaborative projectbetween SHAFR and the University of Wisconsin. Curated by historians, Voices andVisions functions as a permanently archived primary source reader that highlightsmultimedia videos, sound recordings, and images relevant to various topics in U.S.foreign relations in the twentieth century.

Law Library of Congress Legal Research Training: 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Studio B)Co-sponsored by Emory University School of LawLibrarians from the Law Library of Congress will provide free legal research trainingfor SHAFR Conference attendees. Participants will learn about legal researchmethods; the Law Library’s extensive holdings in United States, foreign, andinternational law; and ways to access online legal resources relevant to SHAFRmembers.

SESSION I: 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM (PANELS 1 - 11)

Panel 1: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations: Methods and Interpretations(Salon 7)

Panel 2: The Global Nuclear Order and the Limits of International Control (Salon 1)

Panel 3: Working between Publics and Government Powers: Private Contributions toCold War Public Diplomacy (Salon 2)

Panel 4: U.S. Responses to Regional Power Politics in the Eastern Mediterranean andthe Middle East (Studio C)

Panel 5: Traditions of Modernization: Development Theory in Global Perspective(Studio B)

Panel 6: American Philanthropic Politics Abroad (Salon 3)

Panel 7: Merchants, Artisans, and Dreamers: The Long View in Asia (Salon 5)


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Panel 27: Understanding U.S. Relations with Late Imperial and Revolutionary Iran:New Interpretations and Frameworks (Studio C)

Panel 28: Brazil and the Bomb: New Evidence and Interpretation (Studio D)

Panel 29: Visions of World Government and the American Public: Hemispheric,Atlantic, and Global Perspectives in the 1940s (Salon 2)

Panel 30: Roundtable: Twenty Years of “Unceasing Pressure”: Frank Costigliola andthe Study of U.S. Foreign Relations (Studio B)

Panel 31: Revisiting Carter’s Foreign Policy: An Overlooked Success (Studio E)

Panel 32: Migrant Activism and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Late Twentieth Century(Salon 5)

Panel 33: To Change the United States: Chinese Persuasion, Insider Politics, and Sex(Salon 6)

Panel 34: The Poison Gas Taboo: A Global Perspective (Salon 7)

Panel 35: Roundtable: New Directions in U.S. Foreign Relations and Political-Economic History (Studio F)

COFFEE BREAK: 10:15 – 10:45 AMCoffee, tea, soft drinks, and bottled water will be served in the registration and exhibitarea.

SESSION IV: 10:45 AM – 12:30 PM (PANELS 36 – 47)

Panel 36: Orientalism and Its Discontents: The U.S. Public and the TranspacificCultural Cold War (Salon 1)

Panel 37: Black Internationalism and Black Freedom Struggles (Studio A)

Panel 38: Advancing U.S. Power through NATO (Studio C)

Panel 39: The Spaces of Interwar Internationalism (Salon 2)

Panel 40: Roundtable: David Hollinger's Protestants Abroad (Studio B)

Panel 41: Esquipulas II at Thirty: Historical Perspectives on Central American Peace inthe 1980s (Studio D)


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Panel 23: SHAFR 50th Anniversary Roundtable (Studio B)

REFRESHMENT BREAK: 3:45 – 4:15 PMCoffee, tea, soft drinks, bottled water, and light snacks will be served in the registrationand exhibit area.

PLENARY SESSION: 4:15 – 6:00 PM (Salon 4)

Can Law Restrain War? Lessons from HistoryModerated by SHAFR President Mary L. Dudziak

WELCOME RECEPTION and SHAFR 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: 6:00 – 7:30 PM (Second Floor Reception Area)Sponsored by Oxford University Press, publishers of Diplomatic History

All registrants are invited to join us for light hors d’oeuvres and drinks. Beer, wine,and soft drinks will be available. Each registrant will receive two drink tickets; bar willbe on a cash basis thereafter.

FRIDAY, 23 JUNE 2017

BREAKFAST: 8:00-8:30 AMCo-sponsored by the Committee on Women in SHAFR and the Coordinating Councilfor Women in History (CCWH)A continental breakfast and coffee will be served in the registration and exhibit area.

The Committee on Women in SHAFR and the Coordinating Council for Women inHistory (CCWH) invite all registrants to learn more about their activities and to meetand mingle with other scholars about shared interests.

Diplomatic History Editorial Board Meeting: 8:00 – 9:30 AM, Boardroom



SESSION III: 8:30 – 10:15 AM (PANELS 24 – 35)

Panel 24: All Volunteer Force between the Cold War and the War on Terror (Salon 1)

Panel 25: Challenges of Political Biography (Studio A)

Panel 26: Cold War Executive Decision Making and Intelligence (Salon 3)


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Panel 57: Roundtable: President Trump’s Foreign Policy: The First Six Months inHistorical Perspective (Studio B)

Panel 58: Science and Technology, Power and Projection in U.S. Foreign Relations(Studio F)

Panel 59: War: What Is It Good for? A Conversation in Memory of Marilyn B. Young(Studio D)

RECEPTION TO CELEBRATE THE NEW EDITION OF THE SHAFR GUIDE: ANANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS SINCE 16005:00 – 6:00 PM (Studio D)Sponsored by Brill PublishersWine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. .

SOCIAL EVENT: 6:30 – 9:30 PM Pre-registration and tickets for dinner and for bus transportation required.This year’s Friday night social event will be a seafood feast on the East Pier at NationalHarbor. Buses will depart the hotel beginning at 6:00 PM and return to theRenaissance Arlington Capital View beginning at 9:30 PM. Please see the conferencewebsite for more details.

SATURDAY, 24 JUNE 2017



Job Workshop: 8:00 – 9:15 AM (Salon 4)Due to space and personnel limitations, advance registration is required. Thank you foryour understanding.

BREAKFAST: 9:00 – 9:30 AMAll registrants are invited to join us for a continental breakfast and coffee in theregistration and exhibit area.

SESSION VI: 9:30 – 11:15 AM (PANELS 60 – 71)

Panel 60: Roundtable: Crafting Citizenship in Times of Exception (Studio B)

Panel 61: Roundtable: Constructing the Second World War: Remaking Race andInfrastructure in a Global Conflict (Salon 2)


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Panel 42: What Role for the Intelligence Community in U.S. Foreign Relations?(Studio E)

Panel 43: The Gift of Giving? Aid and Emotion in U.S. Foreign Relations (Salon 3)

Panel 44: Roundtable: So It Is Your Turn as Chair of the History Department: Tips fora Thankless Job (Studio F)

Panel 45: Capital, Labor, and U.S. Empire in Cold War Asia (Salon 5)

Panel 46: Ideological Transnationalism in U.S.-Middle East Relations (Salon 6)

Panel 47: Roundtable: The Smithsonian and the World (Salon 7)

KEYNOTE LUNCHEON: 12:30 – 2:30 PM (Salon 4)Pre-registration and tickets required.

The Chinese Question: The Evolution of a Global Politics of RaceMae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor ofHistory at Columbia University

SESSION V: 2:30 – 4:15 PM (PANELS 48 – 59)

Panel 48: A Transformative Decade? Learning Processes, Attitude Changes, andTransfers of Knowledge in Diplomatic Contacts in the 1970s (Salon 1)

Panel 49: Transatlanticism in the Reagan Era (Salon 2)

Panel 50: International Organizations, the U.S., and the “Rest”: New Perspectives onthe Writing of International History (Studio C)

Panel 51: U.S. and U.K. Aid Policies during the Cold War (Salon 3)

Panel 52: Faith and Foreign Affairs: Religion, Non-State Actors, and U.S. ForeignRelations in the Early Twentieth Century (Salon 5)

Panel 53: Killer Rules: Negotiating the Line between War and Terror in the 1960s and1970s (Salon 6)

Panel 54: American Engineering Internationalism from the Early Republic to the ColdWar (Studio E)

Panel 55: Scholarly Approaches to Doing Digital Diplomatic History (Salon 7)

Panel 56: Firewall Politics: Revisiting the Boundaries of the Third World (Studio A)


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Panel 75: Singer, Actor, Songwriter, Spy: The FBI, CIA, and Show Business in ColdWar America (Salon 2)

Panel 76: Beyond State Power: Non-State Actors, Aid, and Development Programsand the U.S. in the World in the Twentieth Century (Salon 3)

Panel 77: Weathering the War: Civilian Experiences in the Atlantic and PacificTheaters during World War II (Salon 5)

Panel 78: Roundtable: New Evidence from the Clinton Years: Planning FRUS (Studio D)

Panel 79: The End of the Cold War: New Evidence and New Approaches (Studio E)

Panel 80: Foreign Religions and Foreign Relations: U.S. Engagements with the Worldin the Nineteenth Century (Studio F)

Panel 81: Patterns of U.S. Diplomacy in Northeast Asia, 1901-1972 (Salon 6)

Panel 82: Domestic Politics (Korean and American) and a Bilateral Relationship (Salon 7)

Panel 83: Uncle Sam in Japan: The U.S. Military in Postwar Japanese Society (Studio A)


SESSION VIII: 3:30 – 5:15 PM (PANELS 84 – 95)

Panel 84: Legacies of 1917 (Studio B)

Panel 85: American Zionism and U.S.-Israel Relations from the 1950s to the 1990s(Salon 2)

Panel 86: Race, Decolonization, and the Cold War in Africa (Salon 3)

Panel 87: The Cultural Work of War: Enlisted Civilians on the Frontlines (Salon 5)

Panel 88: Missionaries, Technicians, and Tourists: Cold War Public and CulturalDiplomacy in Action (Salon 6)

Panel 89: American Expansion in the Shadow of the British Empire (Salon 7)

Panel 90: American Power and Local Identities in East Asia, 1941-1979 (Studio A)


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Panel 62: From the Brezhnev Doctrine to the Unipolar Moment (Studio A)

Panel 63: The Urban Challenge and Development: International Organizations, theUnited States, and Multilevel Governance (Studio C)

Panel 64: Oceanic Governance Regimes and U.S. Law in Global Perspective (StudioD)

Panel 65: Exiles, Anti-Imperialists, and Technology: Solidarity Networks in the Historyof Inter-American Relations (Salon 1)

Panel 66: Eyes on India: Expanding Perspectives on U.S.-India Relations (Studio E)

Panel 67: Nixon and Vietnam Revisited: Global and Domestic Political Perspectiveson the United States’ Strategic Withdrawal, 1967-1975 (Salon 6)

Panel 68: Breaking Bonds, Creating Enemies: U.S. Immigration Policy and Its Impacton U.S. Foreign Relations during the Interwar Period (Salon 7)

Panel 69: Roundtable: Making a World of Difference: Teaching the History Survey(Salon 3)

Panel 70: Sexual Violence and Sexuality in World War II (Salon 5)

Panel 71: Beyond Rostow: Diversities of Development after Modernization (Studio F)

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS AND SHAFR AWARDS LUNCHEON: 11:15 AM – 1:15PM (Salon 4)Pre-registration and tickets required.

“You didn’t see him lying…beside the gravel road in France”: Death and theHistory of American War PowersSHAFR President Mary L. Dudziak, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law,Emory University

SESSION VII: 1:15 – 3:00 PM (PANELS 72 – 83)

Panel 72: Roundtable: Writing The Cambridge History of America and the World(Studio B)

Panel 73: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, a Retrospective: PromotingDemocracy in the Cold War (Salon 1)

Panel 74: The United States in the Middle East/The Middle East in the United States(Studio C)


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Panel 91: Intelligence Fallout: Barrows, Andropov, Kennedy, and U.S.-SovietRelations, 1918-1983 (Salon 1)

Panel 92: The Discourse of Development: Exploring New Perspectives on U.S. AidAbroad in the Early Cold War (Studio C)

Panel 93: Evolving Spheres: Twentieth-Century Japan-U.S. Relations (Studio D)

Panel 94: The Reagan Doctrine and Iran Contra: Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, andWashington, D.C. (Studio E)

Panel 95: Roundtable: The United States and the World and the History of Capitalism(Studio F)


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SHAFR Council meeting: 8:00 AM – 12:45 PM, Studio A

SHAFR Teaching Committee: 8:00 – 10:00 AM, Boardroom



The SHAFR Teaching Committee invites you to visit our table in the exhibit room tolearn more about and to contribute to Voices and Visions, a collaborative projectbetween SHAFR and the University of Wisconsin. Curated by historians, Voices andVisions functions as a permanently archived primary source reader that highlightsmultimedia videos, sound recordings, and images relevant to various topics in U.S.foreign relations in the twentieth century.

Law Library of Congress Legal Research Training: 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Studio B)Co-sponsored by Emory University School of LawLibrarians from the Law Library of Congress will provide free legal research trainingfor SHAFR Conference attendees. Participants will learn about legal researchmethods; the Law Library’s extensive holdings in United States, foreign, andinternational law; and ways to access online legal resources relevant to SHAFRmembers.

SESSION I: 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM (PANELS 1 - 11)

Panel 1: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations: Methods and Interpretations(Salon 7)

Chair: Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University

“A Human Rights Policy Means Trouble”: The Transformation of Human Rights in theAge of ReaganWilliam Michael Schmidli, Bucknell University

Human Rights, Internationalism, and the Early Conservative Movement, 1949-1960Joseph P. Renouard, The Citadel

Food Power: The Intersection between Aid and Human Rights during the CarterAdministrationKristin L. Ahlberg, Office of the Historian, Department of State

Comment: Steven B. Jensen, The Danish Institute for Human Rights


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Panel 5: Traditions of Modernization: Development Theory in Global Perspective(Studio B)

Chair: Nick Cullather, Indiana University, Bloomington

Nodari Simoniia and Soviet Ideas about the Effect of “Traditions” on Economic Growth Chris Miller, Yale University

Decolonization and the Development of Development Economics in the USSR Alessandro Iandolo, University of Oxford

China between Mao and Reform: The Crisis of the Late 1970sIsabella Weber, University of Cambridge

The Role of the United States in Latin American Industrialization: ContemporaryExperiences in Historical Perspective Isabel Estevez, University of Cambridge

Comment: Nick Cullather

Panel 6: American Philanthropic Politics Abroad (Salon 3)

Chair: Anelise Hanson Shrout, California State University, Fullerton

Local Crime, Transatlantic Reform: The Foreign Relations of the Nineteenth-CenturyPrison Reform MovementLaura Michel, Rutgers University

“Nor Do They Harbor Vermin”: Exploring the Impact of International PhilanthropicCollaboration through Material CultureAmanda Moniz, National Museum of American History

The Philanthropy Machine and U.S.-Ottoman Relations in the Nineteenth CenturyChristopher L. Miller, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

Comment: Anelise Hanson Shrout

Panel 7: Merchants, Artisans, and Dreamers: The Long View in Asia (Salon 5)

Chair: Nick Sarantakes, Naval War College

Middle Men in the Middle Kingdom: American and Chinese Merchants in the First OpiumWarThomas Cox, Sam Houston State University

Subjects of Photography/Subjects of American Diplomacy: Refugee Artisans inPostcolonial VietnamJennifer Way, University of North Texas


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Panel 2: The Global Nuclear Order and the Limits of International Control (Salon 1)

Chair: Toshihiro Higuchi, Georgetown University

A Network of Nuclear Experts: Exporting Research Reactors in the Eisenhower EraMara Drogan, Siena College

Controlling People, Controlling Knowledge: The Early Development of NuclearSafeguardsAnna Weichselbraun, Stanford University

Parallel and Autonomous Nuclear Development in Brazil and Argentina under MilitaryRule, 1975-1985Christopher Dunlap, University of Chicago

Comment: Benoit Pelopidas, Sciences Po–Université Sorbonne Paris Cité

Panel 3: Working between Publics and Government Powers: PrivateContributions to Cold War Public Diplomacy (Salon 2)

Chair: Liping Bu, Alma College

Perforations in the Iron Curtain: The Ford Foundation’s Exchange Program with PolandGregory Domber, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo

The USIA’s Music Program and the State-Private Network Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State University

Appealing to American Publics during the Vietnam War Jessica Frazier, University of Rhode Island

Comment: Giles Scott-Smith, Leiden University

Panel 4: U.S. Responses to Regional Power Politics in the Eastern Mediterraneanand the Middle East (Studio C)

Chair: David Paull Nickles, Office of the Historian, Department of State

A Policy of Detachment: The U.S. and Israel’s Alignment with Turkey, 1996-1997 Ekavi Athanassopoulou, University of Athens, Greece

The American Response to the Growth of Nasserism in Libya, 1951-1959Hasan Karayam, Middle Tennessee State UniversitySHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

A New Look at Regime Change in the Persian Gulf CrisisJoseph Stieb, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Comment: James R. Stocker, Trinity Washington University


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Experts’ Apocalypse: Peak Oil and Phantasm on the Road to the Middle EastRoger Stern, University of Pennsylvania

A Useful Enemy? Libya, the United States, and the Making of InsecurityJacob Mundy, Colgate University

Comment: Roham Alvandi

Panel 11: The Public, Congress, and U.S. Foreign Relations: Taking the Long View(Studio F)

Chair: Justin Hart, Texas Tech University

Private Diplomacy, Public Interest: George Logan’s Mission, Congress, and the Logan ActWendy Wong Schimer, Temple University

Diplomacy of the Public: Congress and Consuls Champion Haitian RecognitionRonald Angelo Johnson, Texas State University

“Endless Foreign Exertions”: Congress Constrains National Commitments in theVietnam EraKatherine Scott, U.S. Senate Historical Office

Comment: Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University

COFFEE BREAK: 1:30 – 2:00 PMCoffee, tea, soft drinks, and bottled water will be served in the registration and exhibitarea.

SESSION II: 2:00 – 3:45 PM (PANELS 12 – 23)

Panel 12: Roundtable: Wilson and World War I: New Perspectives (Salon 1)

Chair: Lloyd Ambrosius, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Woodrow Wilson and Peace without Victory: Interpreting the Reversal of 1917John A. Thompson, University of Cambridge

Beyond Belief: Religion in Woodrow Wilson's InternationalismCara Burnidge, University of Northern Iowa

Room for Choice: Explaining Woodrow Wilson's Submarine Warfare PolicyRoss Kennedy, Illinois State University

Woodrow Wilson and the Formation of the Post-Ottoman Middle EastCharles Laderman, King’s College London


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An Obligation to Begin Anew: The Politics of Social Security Reform in the U.S.Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952Ben Zdencanvoic, Yale UniversityRobert A. and Barbara Divine Graduate Student Travel Grant Award

Comment: Nick Sarantakes

Panel 8: New Thinking on Old Questions (Studio D)

Chair: David Milne, University of East Anglia

In the Eyes of the World: The Foreign Policy of Women’s Suffrage Elizabeth Cobbs, Texas A&M University

The Fall of Détente: The Multiple Endings to U.S.-Soviet Détente, 1976-1980 Bartholomew Sparrow, University of Texas, Austin

In League: The American Response to the Versailles Treaty Trygve Throntveit, University of Minnesota

Averting the Third World War: Nehru, Colombo, and the Vision of Non-AlignedIndochina, 1954-1956Marek Rutkowski, National University of Singapore

Comment: David Milne

Panel 9: Rethinking Cold War Liberalism: Human Rights, Nuclear Disarmament,and Liberals in the Late Cold War (Studio E)

Chair: Jeremi Suri, University of Texas, Austin

Arms Control Is Not Disarmament: The Institute for Policy Studies, Nuclear Disarmament,and Citizen DiplomacyBrian Mueller, Independent Scholar

Liberal Democrats and Chile, 1970-1976Andrew J. Kirkendall, Texas A&M University

Labor Rights and Human Rights in the 1980sCarl Bon Tempo, University of Albany, State University of New York

Comment: Bradley Simpson, University of Connecticut

Panel 10: The Prize? Energy, Security, and Expertise (Salon 6)

Chair: Roham Alvandi, London School of Economics and Political Science

“No Blood for Oil”: Energy Resources, Popular Culture, and Popular ProtestOsamah Khalil, Syracuse University


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Panel 16: Imperial Transitions: Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States,1937-1949 (Studio F)

Chair: Ann Heiss, Kent State University

Managing the Pain: The Politics of Opium in a World Preparing for WarAnne Foster, Indiana State University

Perceptions of Prestige: Anglo-American Soldiers in Wartime IndiaAndrew Muldoon, Metropolitan State University, Denver

Expropriating American Power: The Dutch East Indies Crisis and the Turn to Cold WarClientelismDavid J. Snyder, University of South Carolina

Comment: Marc Frey, University of Bundeswehr

Panel 17: Global Africa and Cold War Diplomacy (Salon 5)

Chair: Elizabeth Schmidt, Loyola University Maryland

The Politics of Pity: Johnson’s Policy towards Africa, 1963-1969Frank Gertis, University of Amsterdam

The Worth of Peanuts: Soviet-Malian Economic Cooperation and the Making of a Non-Monetary Financial CrisisAlessandro Iandolo, University College London

Hedging One’s Bets: America and the Congo Alliance, 1963-1965Lazlo Passemiers, University of the Free StateSHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

Discussant: Elizabeth Schmidt

Panel 18: Christian Mission, U.S. Power, and Domestic and Foreign Publics fromthe Early Republic to the Cold War (Studio C)

Chair: Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University

Protestant Mission, American Empire, and the Uses of History in Hawaii and thePhilippines, 1880-1920Tom Smith, University of Cambridge

Foreign Missionaries and the “Spirit of Benevolence” in the Early RepublicAshley Moreshead, University of Central Florida

Contending Christianities: U.S. Catholic and Protestant Missions in Central Americaand Political Advocacy at Home during Henry Luce’s American Century, 1941-1960Charles T. Strauss, Mount St. Mary’s University

Comment: Emily Conroy-Krutz


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Panel 13: Counter-Terrorism and the American Experience (Studio A)

Chair: Beverly Gage, Yale University

Intelligence Wars: The Creation of an Anglo-American Alliance against the CommunistInternational, 1919-1927Mary Barton, Dartmouth College

The Reagan Administration and the Problems of State-Sponsored FanaticismAlexandra Evans, University of Virginia

Legacies of Terror: America and Pakistan’s Militant Proxy Strategies since the 1970sThomas Cavanna, Southern Methodist University

Comment: Paul Chamberlain, Columbia University

Panel 14: Roundtable: Innovative Teaching Resources (Salon 2)

Chair: Kimber Quinney, California State University, San Marcos

New Approaches to International: a Bloomsbury Series)Amy Sayward, Middle Tennessee State University

The Pedagogical Value of Case StudiesKelly McFarland, Georgetown University

Voices and Visions of the American Century: American Foreign Relations throughSound and ImageDaniel Hummel, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government

Oral Histories of Diplomats and DignitariesMark Tauber, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

Panel 15: Covert Action, Surveillance, and Propaganda: The Global Reach ofSecret U.S. Power in the Early Cold War (Salon 3)

Chair: Richard Immerman, Temple University

CIA Psychological Warfare and the Subversion of Communist Albania, 1951-1959Steve Long, Canterbury Christ Church University

The Americanization of Irish Anti-Communism: The CIA, Irish Neutrality, and theEuropean Youth CampaignBrian McKenzie, Maynooth University

FBI Surveillance of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party across Latin AmericaMargaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology

Influencing the “Moulders of Public Opinion”: American Cold War Propaganda in Indiaand Pakistan, 1952-1963Uzma Quraishi, Sam Houston State University

Comment: Hugh Wilford, California State University, Long Beach


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Panel 22: Discourse and Interaction: Decolonization and Its Relationship toAmerican State and Non-State Actors (Salon 7)

Chair: Maurice Jr. Labelle, University of Saskatchewan

Paths to Revolution: Angolan Actors in American-Sponsored Congregational MissionsKate Burlingham, California State University, Fullerton

Adoption vs Adaption: Indigenous Internationalism and the Discourse of DecolonizationJonathan Crossen, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway

A Multipolar World: Decolonization and the Cold War in ZanzibarEthan Sanders, Regis University

Comment: Christopher Dietrich, Fordham University

Panel 23: SHAFR 50th Anniversary Roundtable (Studio B)

Chair: Tim Borstelmann, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Carol Anderson, Emory University

Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University

Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University


PLENARY SESSION: 4:15 – 6:00 PM (Salon 4)

Can Law Restrain War? Lessons from History

Moderator: Mary L. Dudziak, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Emory University

Rosa Brooks, Professor of Law, Georgetown University

Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor, Harvard Law School

Helen M. Kinsella, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin,Madison

John Fabian Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, Yale Law School

WELCOME RECEPTION and SHAFR 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: 6:00 – 7:30 PM (Second Floor Reception Area)Sponsored by Oxford University Press, publishers of Diplomatic HistoryAll registrants are invited to join us for light hors d’oeuvres and drinks. Beer, wine,and soft drinks will be available. Each registrant will receive two drink tickets; bar willbe on a cash basis thereafter.


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Panel 19: Diplomacy, Development, and Human Rights in Cold War LatinAmerica (Studio D)

Chair: Thomas Field, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Reexamining Reagan: Democratization and Transitional Justice in UruguayDebbie Sharnak, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Testing the Limits of Hegemony: Bolivian Revolutionary Diplomacy, 1952-1954Oliver Murphey, College of Staten Island

Drugs and Development: U.S. Drug Control Policy in Bolivia, 1983-1989Brittany Edmoundson, New York University

Comment: Thomas Field

Panel 20: All Politics Is International: The World and American PresidentialElections (Salon 6)

Chair: Mitch Lerner, Ohio State University

The Soviet Union and the U.S. Presidential Election of 1972Mark Kramer, Harvard University

The U.S. Presidential Election of 1960 and the Soviet ResponseAndrey Edemskiy, Russian Academy of Sciences

Populism and Foreign Policy in the 1976 ElectionMichael Brenes, Yale University

Comment: Ambassador Jack Matlock, Duke University

Panel 21: Race, Surveillance, and Transnational Histories of the U.S. SecurityState (Studio E)

Chair: Colleen Woods, University of Maryland

Securing the Traveling Public: The U.S. Passport Office and the Emergent Cold WarMobility RegimeRyan Archibald, University of Washington, Seattle

Securing the Hemisphere: Indians, Imperial Anxieties, and the Inter-American IndianInstituteRaquel Escobar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Security by Other Means: The Hidden Continuation of Overseas Police Assistance after1974Stuart Schrader, Harvard University

Discussant: Colleen Woods


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BREAKFAST: 8:00-8:30 AMCo-sponsored by the Committee on Women in SHAFR and the Coordinating Councilfor Women in History (CCWH)A continental breakfast and coffee will be served in the registration and exhibit area.

The Committee on Women in SHAFR and the Coordinating Council for Women inHistory (CCWH) invite you to learn more about their activities and meet and minglewith other scholars with shared interests.

Diplomatic History Editorial Board Meeting: 8:00 – 9:30 AM, Boardroom



SESSION III: 8:30 – 10:15 AM (PANELS 24 – 35)

Panel 24: All Volunteer Force between the Cold War and the War on Terror (Salon 1)

Chair: Robert Brigham, Vassar College

Warriors Who Don’t Fight: The American Soldier and the Identity Politics ofPeacekeeping OperationsDavid Fitzgerald, University College Cork

From “Your Services Are Not Required” to “Most Commanders Were Very Receptive”:How Peacekeeping Missions Changed the Army’s Attitudes about Mental HealthDavid Kieran, Washington and Jefferson College

A Few Good (Single) Men: The 1993 Marine Corps Marriage BanJohn Worsencroft, Temple University

Comment: Robert Brigham

Panel 25: Challenges of Political Biography (Studio A)

Chair: David Mayers, Boston University

Colonel House: Woodrow Wilson’s Silent PartnerCharles Neu, Brown University

Shadow Warrior Was a Shadow Indeed: The CIA’s William Colby as a BiographicalSubjectRandall B. Woods, University of Arkansas

Chasing the Gipper: Reflections on Writing a Reagan BiographyH. W. Brands, University of Texas, Austin

Comment: David Mayers


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Panel 29: Visions of World Government and the American Public: Hemispheric,Atlantic, and Global Perspectives in the 1940s (Salon 2)

Chair: Stella Krepp, University of Bern

“King-links” of a “Global Chain”? Hemispheric Regionalism, Nationalism, and WorldGovernment Marco Mariano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale

“A Different and Better Future”: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Global Atlantic, 1939-1945Dario Fazzi, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies

Debating Dumbarton Oaks: Alternative Postwar Visions for International Organization Andrew Johnstone, University of Leicester

Commentator: Elizabeth Borgwardt, Washington University in St. Louis

Panel 30: Roundtable: Twenty Years of “Unceasing Pressure”: Frank Costigliolaand the Study of U.S. Foreign Relations (Studio B)

Chair: Melvyn Leffler, University of Virginia

Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne

Andrew Rotter, Colgate University

Petra Goedde, Temple University

Comment: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut

Panel 31: Revisiting Carter’s Foreign Policy: An Overlooked Success (Studio E)

Chair: James F. Goode, Grand Valley State University

Securing NATO’s Southern Flank: Carter and the Greek-Turkish Disputes Athanasios Antonopoulos, University of EdinburghSHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

Containment Resurgent: The Carter Administration’s Strategic Response to the SovietInvasion of AfghanistanConor Tobin, University College Dublin

The Carter Administration and the Challenges of Economic GlobalizationMichael Benjamin de Groot, University of Virginia

“Uncertainty and Scarcity”: Famine Relief under the Carter AdministrationChristian Tyler Ruth, University of Albany, State University of New York

Comment: James F. Goode


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Panel 26: Cold War Executive Decision Making and Intelligence (Salon 3)

Chair: Tim Sayle, University of Toronto

Secrecy and Backchannels: President Richard Nixon’s Office StructureAshley Neale, University of Kansas

“Castro Cannot Take Over”: Lyndon Johnson, the Policymaking Process, and theDominican InterventionShannon E. Mohan, Office of the Secretary of Defense Historical Office

Can You Keep a Secret? The Power of American Military Intelligence and a Top SecretInterrogation Simona Tobia, Independent ScholarSHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

Comment: Tim Sayle

Panel 27: Understanding U.S. Relations with Late Imperial and RevolutionaryIran: New Interpretations and Frameworks (Studio C)

Chair: David Painter, Georgetown University

Containing the Shah? The United States and Iran’s Regional Ambitions, 1969-1979W. Taylor Fain, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

The United States, the Shah of Iran, and the Global Oil Industry, 1966-1974Christopher R. W. Dietrich, Fordham University

Human Rights and the Revolutionary Divide: The United States, Imperial Iran, and theIslamic RepublicMatthew Shannon, Emory and Henry College

Comments: David Painter and Roham Alvandi, London School of Economics andPolitical Science

Panel 28: Brazil and the Bomb: New Evidence and Interpretation (Studio D)

Chair: James Hershberg, George Washington University

Why Did Brazil Never Build the Bomb?Matias Spektor, Getulio Vargas Foundation

Brazil, Nuclear Weapons, and the Consequences of the Cuban Missile CrisisCarlo Patti, Federal University of Goias

“Keep the Nuclear Beast in a Cage”: Brazil, the United States, and Peaceful NuclearExplosions under the Treaty of Tlatelolco and the NPT, 1964-1968Ryan Musto, George Washington University

Comment: William Burr, National Security Archive


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Panel 35: Roundtable: New Directions in U.S. Foreign Relations and Political-Economic History (Studio F)

Chair: Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University

The Currency and Limits of the New Capitalism’s HistoriographyRachel Bunker, Rutgers University

Cotton, Capitalism, and World Ecology: New Directions in Global Political EconomyDaniel Rood, University of Georgia

Supply-Side Drug Control and Environmental Politics in the Reagan-Era War on DrugsApril Merleaux, Florida International University

The New World Group and New Directions in U.S. Foreign RelationsPeter James Hudson, University of California, Los Angeles

COFFEE BREAK: 10:15 – 10:45 AMCoffee, tea, soft drinks, and bottled water will be served in the registration and exhibitarea.

SESSION IV: 10:45 AM – 12:30 PM (PANELS 36 – 47)

Panel 36: Orientalism and Its Discontents: The U.S. Public and the TranspacificCultural Cold War (Salon 1)

Chair: Christina Klein, Boston College

“How Could I Not Love You?”: American Women and U.S.-Chinese DétenteKazushi Minami, University of Texas, AustinRobert A. and Barbara Divine Graduate Student Travel Grant Award

When Chinese Dinner Beats Chinese Treasure: Dilemmas of Chinese CulturalDiplomacy at the 1964 New York World’s FairYanqiu Zheng, Northwestern University

Workers’ Cold War: George Meany, Walter Reuther, and U.S. Policies in AsiaHui He, South China Normal University

Comment: Kevin Y. Kim, University of Washington, Bothell

Panel 37: Black Internationalism and Black Freedom Struggles (Studio A)

Chair: Carol Anderson, Emory University

Racial Segregation Any Place in a World Is a Crime: International Youth Diplomacy,Rights Discourses, and the Black Freedom Struggle AbroadSusan Eckleman Berghel, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga


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Panel 32: Migrant Activism and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Late TwentiethCentury (Salon 5)

Chair: Carl J. Bon Tempo, University of Albany, State University of New York

Family Reunification and Migration Policy: Vietnamese-American Advocacy in theClinton YearsAmanda Demmer, University of New Hampshire

The American Lebanese League and the Political Awakening of the Lebanese-AmericanCommunity during the Reagan EraLaila Ballout, Northwestern University

The Cold War To Be Continued? The Miami Lobbies and U.S. Policy toward Cubaduring the George Bush EraHideaki Kami, Kanagawa University

Comment: Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland

Panel 33: To Change the United States: Chinese Persuasion, Insider Politics, and Sex(Salon 6)

Chair: Charles Hayford, Independent Scholar

The Beauty Trap: Sexual Attraction as Diplomatic Power in Wartime Sino-American Relations Charles Hayford, Independent Scholar

Young Americo-China: Chinese Assimilation in the U.S. and Transformations in China,1848-1911Yucheng Qin, University of Hawaii, Hilo

The Open Backdoor: The Persuasive Power of Chinese Officials in Washington and U.S.Public Opinion during World War IISally Burt, University of New South Wales, CanberraSHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

Commentator: Robert Shaffer, Shippensburg University

Panel 34: The Poison Gas Taboo: A Global Perspective (Salon 7)

Chair: Marion Girard Dorsey, University of New Hampshire

The Origins of the Poison Gas Taboo in U.S. Foreign PolicyThomas Faith, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

Abhorrence and Moral High Ground: The Rhetoric of U.S. and Japanese ChemicalWarfare Policy in the Pacific WarWalter Grunden, Bowling Green State University

The Tenuous Taboo: Egypt’s Chemical War in Yemen, 1963-1967Asher Orkaby, Harvard University

Comment: Marion Girard Dorsey


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Panel 40: Roundtable: David Hollinger’s Protestants Abroad (Studio B)


Melani McAlister, George Washington University

Madeline Hsu, University of Texas, Austin

Andrew Preston, Clare College, University of Cambridge

David Engerman, Brandeis University

David Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley

Panel 41: Esquipulas II at Thirty: Historical Perspectives on Central AmericanPeace in the 1980s (Studio D)

Chair: Vanessa Walker, Amherst College

“Peace is the Crown of Democracy”: Oscar Arias’s Central American DiplomacyEvan McCormick, Southern Methodist University

“Fighting while Negotiating”: The Contras’ Military Response to Esquipulas IIHilary Francis, University of LondonSHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

When the Mouse Roared: How Oscar Arias Defeated the Reagan AdministrationKyle Longley, Arizona State University

Comment: Jason Colby, University of Victoria

Panel 42: What Role for the Intelligence Community in U.S. Foreign Relations?(Studio E)

Chair: Randall B. Woods, University of Arkansas

John Paton Davies and Operation Tawny Pipit: The Political Is Personal Sarah Jane Corke, Dalhousie University

Early Cold War Paper Mills and the Case of the MHBK (Association of HungarianVeterans)Mark Stout, Johns Hopkins University, and Katalin Kádár Lynn, Helena History Press

“An American Gestapo”: U.S. Isolationism, Internationalism, and the Creation of the CIA Hugh Wilford, California State University

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U.S. International Education and African Student Activists, 1960-1969Manna Duah, Temple UniversityRobert A. and Barbara Divine Graduate Student Travel Grant Award

Bishop Ralph Dodge: Africa’s Unwanted MissionaryLuke Shief, University of Missouri

The African-American Contribution to the Free South Africa MovementRonald Williams II, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Comment: Carol Anderson

Panel 38: Advancing U.S. Power through NATO (Studio C)

Chair: Lawrence S. Kaplan, Kent State University

Operation Allied Force: A Shift in American Power to NATOLauren Stauffer, University of Connecticut

Maintaining Our Empire: Nixon and the Primacy of NATOBenjamin Jared Pack, University of Arkansas

“A Test that We Cannot Afford to Fail”: The Bush Administration, NATO Short-RangeNuclear Forces, and the Struggle for Europe’s FutureStephanie Freeman, University of Virginia

Comment: Kelly M. McFarland, Georgetown University

Panel 39: The Spaces of Interwar Internationalism (Salon 2)

Moderator: Daniel Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan University

Internationalism in the Swiss Village of LeysinIlaria Scaglia, Columbus State University

Talking the International: Internationalism’s Discursive Spaces in the 1920s and 1930sKatharina Rietzler, University of SussexSHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

Save the World from Singapore: The Rockefeller Foundation and International HealthCommunicationsHeidi Tworek, University of British Columbia

Comment: Daniel Margolies


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Panel 46: Ideological Transnationalism in U.S.-Middle East Relations (Salon 6)

Chair: Osamah F. Khalil, Syracuse University

The Creation of the “Essential Terrorist” and U.S.-Middle East Relations, 1974-1986Alex Hobson, Northwestern University

The Threat of Arab Oil Power to “American Empire” in the 1970s Anna Viden, University of Pennsylvania

Dreams Come to Ground: Arabs, Arab Americans, and the Israeli-Palestine Dispute,1967-1988Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara

Chair: Osamah F. Khalil

Panel 47: Roundtable: The Smithsonian and the World (Salon 7)

Chair: Jenifer Van Vleck, National Air and Space Museum

Martin Collins, National Air and Space Museum

Joshua Bell, National Museum of Natural History

Karen Milbourne, Museum of African Art

KEYNOTE LUNCHEON: 12:30 – 2:30 PM (Salon 4)Pre-registration and tickets required.

The Chinese Question: The Evolution of a Global Politics of RaceMae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor ofHistory at Columbia University

SESSION V: 2:30 – 4:15 PM (PANELS 48 – 59)

Panel 48: A Transformative Decade? Learning Processes, Attitude Changes, andTransfers of Knowledge in Diplomatic Contacts in the 1970s (Salon 1)

Chair: William Glenn Gray, Purdue University

Nuclear Diplomacy: The SALT Negotiations as Communicative Process between theSuperpowers of the Cold WarArvid Schors, University of Freiburg

Foreign Policy in the Information Age: From Military Power Politics to the Control ofInformationJürgen Dinkel, German Historical Institute


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Panel 43: The Gift of Giving? Aid and Emotion in U.S. Foreign Relations (Salon 3)

Chairs: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut, and Andrew Rotter, ColgateUniversity

“Lie without Blushing”: Gratitude and Paternalism in U.S.-Israeli Relations, 1958-1967Shaul Mitelplunkt, University of YorkSHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

“The Sympathies of the Consul Are Strongly Aroused”: Contemplating U.S. Consuls’Out-of-Pocket Aid to Americans in Distress Abroad in 1902Nicole Phelps, University of Vermont

The Frustrations of Giving: “Ingratitude,” Public Outrage, and German-AmericanRelations in the Era of the Great War, 1914-1924Elisabeth Piller, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Emotions and American Aid to Bolshevik RussiaDavid Greenstein, University of Illinois, Chicago

Comment: Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne

Panel 44: Roundtable: So It is Your Turn as Chair of the History Department: Tipsfor a Thankless Job (Studio F)

William Ashbaugh, State University of New York, Oneonta

Catherine Forslund, Rockford University

John McNay, University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash

Katherine Sibley, St. Joseph’s University

Panel 45: Capital, Labor, and U.S. Empire in Cold War Asia (Salon 5)

Chair: Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University

Contracts, Containers, and Capitalism: The Vietnam War and the Globalization ofSouth Korean Capital, 1965-1972Patrick Chung, Brown University

Lost in Transnation: South Korean Transnational Employment in Vietnam during theWoolam BoomEunseo Jo, Stanford University

Occupational Hazards: Race, Labor, and the U.S. Military in Okinawa Colleen Woods, University of Maryland

Comment: Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University


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Development and Drugs: Colombia’s Graduation from U.S. Foreign Aid in 1975Oliver Horn, Georgetown University

Comment: Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong

Panel 52: Faith and Foreign Affairs: Religion, Non-State Actors, and U.S. ForeignRelations in the Early Twentieth Century (Salon 5)

Chair: Cara Burnidge, University of Northern Iowa

“I am Persia’s”: Howard Baskerville, American Presbyterian Missionaries, and U.S.-Iranian Relations during the First Iranian RevolutionKelly Shannon, Florida Atlantic University

The Principles of Relief: American Missionaries and the Remaking of Indian Lives afterthe Spanish Influenza Pandemic Jonathan Chilcote, Florida College

Arab-American Efforts to Influence U.S. Policy on Palestine, 1944-1948Denise Laszewski Jenison, Kent State University

Comment: Cara Burnidge

Panel 53: Killer Rules: Negotiating the Line between War and Terror in the 1960sand 1970s (Salon 6)

Chair: Sarah Snyder, American University

Making Enemies: Determining Combatant Status during the Vietnam WarBrian Cuddy, Macquarie University, Australia

Nothing but “Ordinary Criminals”: U.S. and Western European Efforts to DelegitimizeTerroristic Violence in the 1970sSilke Zoller, Temple University

Pressured Compromise: Rethinking the Negotiation of the Laws of WarGiovanni Mantilla, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), MexicoSHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

Comment: Kimberly Lowe, Lesley University

Panel 54: American Engineering Internationalism from the Early Republic to theCold War (Studio E)

Chair: Jayita Sarkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University

The Global Reach of American Engineers before the Civil WarKonstantin Dierks, Indiana University

Engineers’ Dreams: Space Exploration and the Promise of World PeaceGretchen Heefner, Northeastern University


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Disenchanted Transatlanticists: U.S. Foundations in the 1970s Western Europe Helke Rausch, University of FreiburgSHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

Comment: William Glenn Gray

Panel 49: Transatlanticism in the Reagan Era (Salon 2)

Chair: Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University

Pushing Buttons: Transatlantic Perspectives of Reagan’s Foreign Policy Susan Colbourn, University of Toronto

Three Very Different Atlanticists? Helmut Schmidt, Margaret Thatcher, and the “ReaganFactor” in Transforming the Transatlantic Relationship during the Early 1980sMathias Haeussler, University of Cambridge

“When Irish Eyes are Smiling”: Canada and the Reagan Administration Asa McKercher, McMaster University

Panel 50: International Organizations, the U.S., and the “Rest”: New Perspectiveson the Writing of International History (Studio C)

Chair: Vanni Pettiná, El Colegio de México

The Organization of American States and the Plight of Regional Organizations Stella Krepp, University of Bern

Exploring the Multi-Nationalities of the United Nations Steven B. Jensen, The Danish Institute of Human Rights

The IMF and the World Bank: The Bretton Woods-United States-Latin AmericanTriangleClaudia Kedar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The World Bank, U.S. Hegemony, and the Africa Agenda Howard Stein, University of Michigan

Comment: Vanni Pettiná

Panel 51: U.S. and U.K. Aid Policies during the Cold War (Salon 3)

Chair: Yafeng Xia, Long Island University

British and American Aid to South and Southeast Asian Borderlands, 1950-1970Reed Chervin, University of Hong KongRobert A. and Barbara Divine Graduate Student Travel Grant Award

Engineering’s Role in Early Cold War Development Policy Keith Aksel, Rowan University


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Engineering the “Scramble” for Africa: American Engineers and Histories of the UnitedStates in the WorldStephen Tuffnell, University of Oxford

Comment: Jayita Sarkar

Panel 55: Scholarly Approaches to Doing Digital Diplomatic History (Salon 7)

Chair: Marc Selverstone, University of Virginia

Andrew Wilson, Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research

Abby Mullen, Northeastern University

Zoe LeBlanc, Vanderbilt UniversityRobert A. and Barbara Divine Graduate Student Travel Grant Award

Micki Kaufman, City University of New York Graduate Center

Comment: Marc Selverstone

Panel 56: Firewall Politics: Revisiting the Boundaries of the Third World (Studio A)

Chair: Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas, Austin

Networks of Integration: The Colombo Powers and South-South Diplomacy in theThird WorldCindy Ewing, Yale University

An Economic Bomb: Third World Resistance to Superpower Détente Jeffrey James Byrne, University of British Columbia

Circumscribed Sovereignty: American Liberalism and the Third WorldRyan M. Irwin, University of Albany, State University of New York

Comment: Gregg A. Brazinsky, George Washington University

Panel 57: Roundtable: President Trump’s Foreign Policy: The First Six Months inHistorical Perspective (Studio B)

Chair: Aaron O’Connell, University of Texas, Austin

Edward Fishman, Atlantic Council

Troy Thomas, National Security Council

Charles Edel, Naval War College


Panel 58: Science and Technology, Power and Projection in U.S. Foreign Relations(Studio F)

Chair: Kate Epstein, Rutgers University, Camden

The Promethean Ally: Britain, the United States, and Technological Diplomacy in theSecond World WarMichael Falcone, Northwestern University

The National Science Foundation and US Foreign Policy during the 1950s-60s Emily Gibson, National Science Foundation

Projecting American Science Abroad: U.S. Science-Themed Propaganda Films, 1950s-1970sTeasel Muir-Harmony, Smithsonian Institution

Commentator: Jenifer Van Vleck, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

Panel 59: War: What Is It Good for? A Conversation in Honor of Marilyn B. Young(Studio D)

Chairs: Mark Bradley, University of Chicago, and Robert Brigham, Vassar College

Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University

Mary L. Dudziak, Emory University

Michael Sherry, Northwestern University

Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Michael Allen, Northwestern University

RECEPTION TO CELEBRATE THE NEW EDITION OF THE SHAFR GUIDE: ANANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS SINCE 1600 5:00 – 6:00 PM (Studio D)Sponsored by Brill PublishersWine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

SOCIAL EVENT: 6:30 – 9:30 PM Pre-registration and tickets for dinner and bus transportation required.This year’s Friday night social event will be a seafood feast on the East Pier at NationalHarbor, with vegan and vegetarian options available. Buses will depart the hotelbeginning at 6:00 PM and return to the Renaissance Arlington Capital View beginningat 9:30 PM. Please see the conference website for more details.

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Job Workshop: 8:00 – 9:15 AM (Salon 4)Due to space and personnel limitations, advance registration is required. Thank you foryour understanding.

BREAKFAST: 9:00 – 9:30 AMAll registrants are invited to join us for a continental breakfast and coffee in theregistration and exhibit area.

SESSION VI: 9:30 – 11:15 AM (Panels 60-71)

Panel 60: Roundtable: Crafting Citizenship in Times of Exception (Studio B)

Chair: Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University

White Rage and States of ExceptionCarol Anderson, Emory University

Black Suffering and Solidarity in Times of ExceptionJoshua Guild, Princeton University

Rightslessness and ExceptionsA. Naomi Paik, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Crafting White Americans in the Shadow of the “Dark Continent”Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Latinidades in Times of ExceptionGinetta Candelario, Smith College

Panel 61: Roundtable: Constructing the Second World War: Remaking Race andInfrastructure in a Global Conflict (Salon 2)

Chair: Brooke Blower, Boston University

Andrew Friedman, Haverford College

Julia Irwin, University of South Florida


Tom Guglielmo, George Washington University

Panel 62: From the Brezhnev Doctrine to the Unipolar Moment (Studio A)

Chair: Fred Logevall, Harvard University

Ambassador Jack Matlock, Duke University


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Communications Technology and Caribbean Solidarity NetworksTomás Pérez Varela, University of Puerto Rico

Comment: Margaret Power

Panel 66: Eyes on India: Expanding Perspectives on U.S.-India Relations (Studio E)

Chair: Uzma Quraishi, Sam Houston State University

The Foreign Policy of the FetusJeanna L. Kinnebrew, Boston University

“Nonsensical, Ludicrous and Most Ridiculous”: The CIA and the Performativity ofIntelligence in U.S.-Indian Public Diplomacy Paul M. McGarr, University of Nottingham

Frontiers, New and Final: U.S. Cooperation with India’s Space ProgramMarc Reyes, University of Connecticut SHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

Comment: David Engerman, Brandeis University

Panel 67: Nixon and Vietnam Revisited: Global and Domestic PoliticalPerspectives on the United States’ Strategic Withdrawal, 1967-1975 (Salon 6)

Chair: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Columbia University

Vietnam War Triumvirate: Nixon, Kissinger, Melvin Laird, and the Clash of RepublicanConstituents, 1969-1970Sean Fear, Dartmouth University

“No Good Choices”: Assessing President Nixon’s Decision to Remove U.S. Forces fromVietnam, 1967-1970David Prentice, Oklahoma State University

“Equilibrium Strategy” and “Insurance Policy”: Revisiting Nixon and Kissinger’s Post-Paris Agreement Strategy for IndochinaJohannes Kadura, Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Comment: Timothy Naftali, New York University

Panel 68: Breaking Bonds, Creating Enemies: U.S. Immigration Policy and ItsImpact on U.S. Foreign Relations during the Interwar Period (Salon 7)

Chair: Jason Colby, University of Victoria

“A Grave Offense of Significant Consequences”: Three Mexican Perspectives on theU.S. Attempt to Place a Quota on Mexican Immigration during the 1920sBenjamin Montoya, University of Colorado, Boulder


Panel 63: The Urban Challenge and Development: International Organizations,the United States, and Multilevel Governance (Studio C)

Chair: Nick Cullather, Indiana University

The Urban Challenge as a Problem in International Development Marc Frey, Bundeswehr University, Munich

Ernest Weissmann, the United Nations, and the Beginnings of Urban DevelopmentPoliciesTobias Wolffhardt, Bundeswehr University, Munich

Urban Environmental Policy in McNamara’s World Bank, between Ideal and Reality:The Case of São Paulo Sabrina Kirschner, Bundeswehr University, MunichSHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

Commentator: Nick Cullather

Panel 64: Oceanic Governance Regimes and U.S. Law in Global Perspective(Studio D)

Chair: Megan Black, Harvard University

The “Empire of Law” Goes to Sea: Fur Seals and the Bering Sea Conflict, 1880-1893Rebecca McLennan, University of California, Berkeley

U.S. Jurisdictional Assertions in Submerged Lands and the New Spatialized Regimes ofthe Sea, 1945-1958Daniel Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College

On Arms and Letters: Legal, Technical, and Military Aspects of U.S. MaritimeHegemony in the Cold War MediterraneanLino Camprubi, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Comment: Megan Black

Panel 65: Exiles, Anti-Imperialists, and Technology: Solidarity Networks in theHistory of Inter-American Relations (Salon 1)

Chair: Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology

Postwar Anti-Imperialist Networks and the New Inter-American System, 1920-1933Micah Wright, Texas A&M University

Cuba’s Revolutionary War Jonathan Brown, University of Texas, Austin

The Strands of the Caribbean’s “Cold War”: Caribbean Basin Exiles and TransnationalNetworks, 1945-1952Aaron Coy Moulton, University of Arkansas

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After Modernization: Women, Development, and the 1970s Global Anti-PovertyMovementJoanne Meyerowitz, Yale University

Commentator: Stephen Macekura

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS AND SHAFR AWARDS LUNCHEON: 11:15 AM – 1:15 PM (Salon 4)Pre-registration and tickets required.

“You didn’t see him lying…beside the gravel road in France”: Death and theHistory of American War PowersSHAFR President Mary L. Dudziak, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law,Emory University

SESSION VII: 1:15 – 3:00 PM (Panels 72-83)

Panel 72: Roundtable: Writing The Cambridge History of America and the World(Studio B)

Melani McAlister, George Washington University

Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire

Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Brooke Blower, Boston University

Mark Bradley, University of Chicago

Panel 73: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, a Retrospective:Promoting Democracy in the Cold War (Salon 1)

Chair: William Michael Schmidli, Bucknell University

John F. Kennedy and the Developing World: A Data-Based Retrospective on theKennedy Administration’s Relations with Autocratic RegimesPhil Muehlenbeck, George Washington University

The Agony of Liberals: Lyndon Johnson, Brazil, and IndonesiaMark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas, Austin

“A Human Rights Policy Means Trouble”: Ecumenical Activism, Civil Religion, and theForging of Ronald Reagan’s Human Rights PolicyShannon Nix, University of Virginia

Comment: David F. Schmitz, Whitman College


“Treated Like Lascars”: U.S. Immigration Restriction and White Men’s Countries, 1921-1939Anne Rees, La Trobe University

Romantic Currents: Migration, Interracial Relationships, and U.S. Imperialism in thePhilippinesAllison Wells, University of Iowa

Comment: Robert McGreevey, The College of New Jersey

Panel 69: Roundtable: Making a World of Difference: Teaching the History Survey(Salon 3)

Chair: Lori Clune, California State University, Fresno

Countering Narratives of American Exceptionalism in the U.S. History SurveyGregory F. Domber, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo

Engaging Students in Engaging WaysBrian Etheridge, Georgia Gwinnett College

Open Educational Resources: Transparency, Accountability, and Curricular CoherenceKimber Quinney, California State University, San Marcos

Panel 70: Sexual Violence and Sexuality in World War II (Salon 5)

Chair: Petra Goedde, Temple University

“Poaching on Purely Male Preserves”: B-Girls, Wives, Workers, and WAVES on theAmerican Home FrontAaron Hiltner, Boston University

Bad Girls and the Good War: Race, Gender, and Morals Policing in World War IIAnne Gray Fisher, Brown University

Sex with Girls: American GIs and Statutory Rape in the European TheaterRuth Lawlor, Trinity College, University of CambridgeSHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

Panel 71: Beyond Rostow: Diversities of Development after Modernization(Studio F)

Chair: Stephen Macekura, Indiana University

“Social Justice Development” and Its Contradiction Paul Adler, Harvard University

Corporate Messengers from the Third World: U.S. Businessmen and the Remaking ofthe Welfare State, 1964-1975 Amy Offner, University of Pennsylvania


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A “Little Cuba” in the Jungle: Priests in Ixcán, Guatemala, 1965-1976Sarah Foss, Indiana UniversityRobert A. and Barbara Divine Graduate Student Travel Grant Award

Comment: Amy Sayward

Panel 77: Weathering the War: Civilian Experiences in the Atlantic and PacificTheaters during World War II (Salon 5)

Chair: Lili M. Kim, Hampshire College

Thriving in Scarcity: How Restaurants in New York and London Exploited World War IIFood Policies Heather Ruth Lee, New York University, Shanghai

The Stars and Stripes and the Rising Sun: Imperial Material Culture in the Battle for thePacificAlvita Akiboh, Northwestern University

The Promises of Liberation in a Time of War: World War II and “Normalcy” in U.S. andJapanese Propaganda Genevieve Clutario, Harvard University

Comment: Lili M. Kim

Panel 78: Roundtable: New Evidence from the Clinton Years: Planning FRUS(Studio D)

Chair: Adam Howard, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

Planning the Clinton FRUS Volumes: A Progress ReportPaul Pitman, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

The HAC Challenge: Assessing “Thorough, Accurate, and Reliable”Richard Immerman, Temple University

Waiting to Write about Clinton’s Foreign Policy: The Problem of Document Availabilityand Government ClassificationKelly Shannon, Florida Atlantic University

The Clinton Presidency and a Post-Cold War Doctrine: The National Security CouncilFiles of the William J. Clinton Presidential LibraryTerri Garner, William J. Clinton Presidential Library

U.S.-NATO-Russia Relations in the Clinton YearsJames Goldgeier, American University


Panel 74: The United States in the Middle East/The Middle East in the UnitedStates (Studio C)

Chair: Sarah Hirschhorn, University of Oxford

Arabs and the “Problem of the Color Line”: Revisiting the 1919 Paris Peace Conference Elizabeth Thompson, American University

Cartoons and Conspiracies: Sense of Humor as Political CategoryPerin Gurel, University of Notre Dame

“From the Middle East Point of View”: Empathy and the Lebanese Civil War of 1958 inthe United StatesMaurice Jr. Labelle, University of Saskatchewan

Comment: Sarah Hirschhorn

Panel 75: Singer, Actor, Songwriter, Spy: The FBI, CIA, and Show Business in ColdWar America (Salon 2)

Chair: Katherine Sibley, Saint Joseph’s University

Let Paul Robeson Sing: Overseas Protests over a Passport Lori Clune, California State University, Fresno

If I Only Had a Brain: Yip Harburg, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Failures of FBI IntelligenceWorkFrancis MacDonnell, Southern Virginia University

How the FBI and CIA Confronted the Cinematic Color Line in Cold War Hollywood John Sbardellati, University of Waterloo

Comment: Katherine Sibley

Panel 76: Beyond State Power: Non-State Actors, Aid, and Development Programsand the U.S. in the World in the Twentieth Century (Salon 3)

Chair: Amy Sayward, Middle Tennessee State University

Feeding the “Land of Great Hunger”: Technologies of Food Aid in the American ReliefAdministration’s Venture to Russia, 1919-1923E. Kyle Romero, Vanderbilt University

Missionaries, Capital, Relief, and Empire in Post-Great War Syria and LebanonHenry G. Gorman, Vanderbilt University

The Body Utopic: American Anticommunism and the Urban Planning of BogotáAmanda C. Waterhouse, Indiana University


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Panel 82: Domestic Politics (Korean and American) and a Bilateral Relationship(Salon 7)

Chair: Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Keeping the Cold War Cold: Korea in 1976Nick Sarantakes, U.S. Naval War College

Syngman Rhee: Socialist David Fields, University of Wisconsin, Madison

The Vietnam War and U.S. Credibility on the Korean Peninsula Jooeun Kim, Stanford UniversityRobert A. and Barbara Divine Graduate Student Travel Grant Award

“Is It for This We Fought and Bled?”: The Korean War and the Struggle for African-American RightsMitch Lerner, Ohio State University

Comment: Meredith Oyen

Panel 83: Uncle Sam in Japan: The U.S. Military in Postwar Japanese Society(Studio A)

Chair: Sarah Kovner, Columbia University

Militarizing Citizenship: U.S. Military Training in Postwar JapanJennifer Miller, Dartmouth University

Contested Alliance: Interracial Sex and Anti-American Nationalism in JapanKristin Roebuck, Cornell University

From Tokyo to Wounded Knee: Two Afterlives of the Sunagawa StruggleDustin Wright, University of California, Santa Cruz

Comment: Sarah Kovner


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Panel 84: Legacies of 1917 (Studio B)

Chair: Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University

The Trading with the Enemy Act and the Architecture of American Power Benjamin Coates, Wake Forest University


Panel 79: The End of the Cold War: New Evidence and New Approaches (Studio E)

Chair: Jeffrey A. Engel, Southern Methodist University

The Beginning of the End: The Geneva Summit as Cold War Turning Point Simon Miles, Duke University

Democracy Promotion, Neoliberalism, and the End of the Cold War Kate Geohegan, Harvard University

Who Knew What, When: Revisiting U.S. Views of the Soviet Union at Cold War’s EndJoshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson, Texas A&M University

1989: A Year in the Global Sovereign Debt CrisisFritz Bartel, Cornell University

Comment: Jeffrey A. Engel

Panel 80: Foreign Religions and Foreign Relations: U.S. Engagements with theWorld in the Nineteenth Century (Studio F)

Chair: Tisa Wenger, Yale University

Heathen Geographies in the Nineteenth Century Kathryn Gin Lum, Stanford University

Foreign Missions and Foreign Information in the Early Republic Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University

Reimagining Catholic Power in the Wake of the Risorgimento Katherine Moran, St. Louis University

Comment: Tisa Wenger

Panel 81: Patterns of U.S. Diplomacy in Northeast Asia, 1901-1972 (Salon 6)

Chair: Michael Barnhart, Stony Brook University

Russo-Japanese Agreements Russo-Japanese Agreements and U.S.-East Asian PolicyPolicy, 1907-1916Midori Yoshii, Albion College

America’s Offshore Balancing toward Northeast Asia: Theodore Roosevelt and GeorgeKennan’s ApproachesSeung-Young Kim, University of Sheffield

When the Rubber Meets the Road: Policy and Implementation in Occupied JapanDayna Barnes, Stanford University

Entanglement and Abandonment: Bilateral Reactions to Nixon's Troop Withdrawal fromSouth KoreaLeon Perkowski, Air Command and Staff College

Comment: Michael Barnhart


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One Hundred Years of the Espionage Act Sam Lebovic, George Mason University

How to Prevent a World War: Law, Business, and the People of 1934-1938Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Comment: Julia Irwin, University of South Florida

Panel 85: American Zionism and U.S.-Israel Relations from the 1950s to the1990s (Salon 2)

Chair: Peter Hahn, Ohio State University

The Origins of America’s Israel Lobby, 1951-1956Doug Rossinow, University of Oslo

City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement since 1967Sara Yael Hirschhorn, Oxford University

American Jews and Arafat: Citizen Diplomacy and the PLO Recognition of Israel Seth Anziska, University College London

Comment: Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara

Panel 86: Race, Decolonization, and the Cold War in Africa (Salon 3)

Chair: Ryan Irwin, University of Albany, State University of New York

“The Greatest Gathering of World Leaders”: Competing Internationalisms at the UnitedNations, 1960-1961Vivien Chang, University of Virginia

“Bastions of White Conservatism”: Segregationist Internationalism against Civil Rightsand DecolonizationR. Joseph Parrott, Yale University

Nixon’s Cold War in Africa: From Emerging Hot Spot to Forgotten FrontAlexander Marino, University of Arkansas

Comment: Ryan Irwin

Panel 87: The Cultural Work of War: Enlisted Civilians on the Frontlines (Salon 5)

Chair: Penny von Eschen, Cornell University

Learning Culture in Hawai’i: USAID Workers and America’s “Bridge to Asia” during theVietnam WarSarah Miller-Davenport, University of SheffieldSHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

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The Comforts of War: Anglo-American Women and War Relief in World War ITammy Proctor, Utah State University

Sesame Street, Scantily Clad Women, and American Gender Change in the U.S.MilitaryKara Dixon Vuic, Texas Christian University

Comment: Penny von Eschen

Panel 88: Missionaries, Technicians, and Tourists: Cold War Public and CulturalDiplomacy in Action (Salon 6)

Chair: Walter Hixson, University of Akron

A Vision beyond Attainment: Some Thoughts on Why Point Four Failed in Iran Richard Garlitz, University of Tennessee, Martin

Mormons in the Lion City: Religious Cultural Exchanges, 1968-1990Keshia Lai, Ohio State UniversitySHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grant Award

Soft Power and American Technology in the Soviet UnionMichael Metsner, Case Western Reserve University

Tourists in Uniforms: Citizenship, Diplomacy, and the Defense Department’s Cold WarPocket GuidesScott Laderman, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Comment: Justin Hart, Texas Tech University

Panel 89: American Expansion in the Shadow of the British Empire (Salon 7)

Chair: Stephen Tuffnell, University of Oxford, St. Peter’s College

“An Importance Second Only to That of Great Britain”: American Involvement in theChina Trade and the Rhetoric of Anglo-American Competition, 1842-1856Matthew T. Brundage, Kent State University

“A Compliment to Great Britain and a Reproach to Other Nations”: American Views ofthe British Takeover of EgyptAndrew Priest, University of Essex

The Private Structures of Anglo-American Financial Cooperation in Central AmericanDebt Settlements, 1885-1912David J. Shorten, Boston University

Comment: Stephen Tuffnell

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Panel 90: American Power and Local Identities in East Asia, 1941-1979 (Studio A)

Chair: Jim Matray, California State University, Chico

China’s Hostel and Interpreter Programs for U.S. Forces during the Second World War,1941-1945Zach Fredman, Nanyang Technological University

Chinese, But Not Communist: Untangling Singapore’s Identity and U.S. EconomicDiplomacy during the Cold WarDaniel Wei Boon Chua, Nanyang Technological University

Wig: The Story of a Cold War Commodity, 1958-1979Jason Petrulis, Cal Poly Pomona

Comment: Jim Matray

Panel 91: Intelligence Fallout: Barrows, Andropov, Kennedy, and U.S.-SovietRelations, 1918-1983 (Salon 1)

Chair: Hope Harrison, George Washington University

Great Expectations: David P. Barrows and U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil WarPaul Behringer, American University

Yuri Andropov’s KGB and U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1977-1983Douglas Selvage, Bundesbeauftragte füf die Stasi-Unterlagen, Berlin

Community or Confederation? U.S. Intelligence under John F. KennedyThomas Reinstein, Temple University

Comment: Svetlana Savranskaya, National Security Archives

Panel 92: The Discourse of Development: Exploring New Perspectives on U.S. AidAbroad in the Early Cold War (Studio C)

Chair: Paul V. Kershaw, Wayne State University

The Dual Integration of Oil: Economic Development and the Public-Private Partnershipof the Postwar Petroleum OrderGregory Brew, Georgetown University

“Wall Street Was Working out the Means”: The State, Corporations, and BlackDissidents in the Origins of the Point Four ProgramMegan Black, Harvard University

“Helping Needy People Help Themselves”: The Near East Foundation, Philanthropy,and U.S.-Iranian Relations Ben Offiler, Sheffield Hallam University

Comment: Paul V. Kershaw

Panel 93: Evolving Spheres: Twentieth-Century Japan-U.S. Relations (Studio D)

Chair: Kristin Roebuck, Cornell University

Colonies Adrift: Japanese and American Grand Strategy and the Struggle for EuropeanColonial Resource Scarcity in the Early Stages of the Second World WarDawn Alexandrea Berry, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

Policing Spheres: Japan-U.S. Prisoner Exchanges during World War IIGeorge Kupsky, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

Reselecting Nuclear Policy: Kennedy, Ikeda, and U.S.-Japanese Nuclear Relations,1961-1963Masaki Sakamoto, Keio University

Comment: Kristin Roebuck

Panel 94: The Reagan Doctrine and Iran Contra: Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, andWashington, D.C. (Studio E)

Chair: Kyle Longley, Arizona State University

Misguided Honor: Colin Powell, Casper Weinberger, and the Iran-Contra ScandalJeffrey Matthews, University of Puget Sound

The Risky Business of Rollback: Anti-Communist Americans, the Contra War, and theReagan DoctrineJoseph Ledford, University of California, Berkeley

Transnational Strategies: Saudi Arabian Precedents and Reagan Foreign PolicyCarl Forsberg, University of Texas

Comment: Kyle Longley

Panel 95: Roundtable: The United States and the World and the History ofCapitalism (Studio F)

Chair: Bradley Simpson, University of Connecticut

Economic Thought, Quantification, and U.S. PowerStephen Macekura, Indiana University

Dividing Lines in Twentieth-Century Political EconomyAmy Offner, University of Pennsylvania

Economic Sovereignty, the Third World, and U.S. Foreign RelationsChristy Thornton, Rowan University

White Collar Services, Decolonization, and U.S. Global PowerBetsy Beasley, Harvard University

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AAdler, Paul, 71Ahlberg, Kristin, 1Akiboh, Alvita, 77Aksel, Keith, 51Allen, Michael, 59Alvandi, Roham, 10, 27Ambrosius, Lloyd, 12Anderson, Carol, 23, 37, 60Antonopoulos, Athanasios,31

Anziska, Seth, 85Archibald, Ryan, 21Ashbaugh, William, 44Athanassopoulou, Ekavi, 4

BBallout, Laila, 32Barnes, Dayna, 81Barnhart, Michael, 81 Bartel, Fritz, 79Barton, Mary, 13Beasley, Betsy, 95Behringer, Paul, 91Bell, Joshua, 47Berghel, Susan Eckleman, 37

Berry, Dawn Alexandrea, 93

Black, Megan, 64, 92Blower, Brooke, 61, 72Bon Tempo, Carl, 9, 32Borgwardt, Elizabeth, 29Borstelmann, Tim, 23Bradley, Mark, 59, 72Brazinsky, Gregg, 56Brands, H. W., 25Brenes, Michael, 20Brew, Gregory, 92Brigham, Robert, 24, 59Brooks, Rosa, PlenaryBrown, Jonathan, 65Brundage, Matthew, 89Bu, Liping, 3

Bunker, Rachel, 35Burlingham, Kate, 22Burnidge, Cara, 12, 52Burr, William, 28Burt, Sally, 33Byrne, Jeffrey James, 56

CCamprubi, Lino, 64Candelario, Ginetta, 60Capozzola, Christopher, 84Cavanna, Thomas, 13Chamberlin, Paul, 13Chang, Vivien, 86Chervin, Reed, 51Chilcote, Jonathan, 52Chua, Daniel Wei Boon, 90Chung, Patrick, 45Clune, Lori, 69, 75Clutario, Genevieve, 77Coates, Benjamin, 84Cobbs, Elizabeth, 8Colbourn, Susan, 49Colby, Jason, 41, 68Collins, Martin, 47Conroy-Krutz, Emily, 18, 80Corke, Sarah Jane, 42Costigliola, Frank, 30, 43Cox, Thomas, 7Crossen, Jonathan, 22Cuddy, Brian, 53Cullather, Nick, 5, 63

Dde Groot, Michael Benjamin, 31

Demmer, Amanda, 32Dierks, Konstantin, 54Dietrich, Christopher, 22, 27

Dinkel, Jürgen, 48Domber, Gregory, 3, 69Dorsey, Marion Girard, 34Drogan, Mara, 2

Duah, Manna, 37Dudziak, Mary, Plenary, Presidential Luncheon,59

Dunlap, Christopher, 2

EEdel, Charles, 57Edemskiy, Andrey, 20Edmoundson, Brittany, 19Engel, Jeffrey, 79Engerman, David, 40, 66Epstein, Kate, 58Escobar, Raquel, 21Estevez, Isabel, 5Etheridge, Brian, 69Evans, Alexandra, 13Ewing, Cindy, 56

FFain, W. Taylor, 27Faith, Thomas, 34Falcone, Michael, 58Fazzi, Dario, 29Fear, Sean, 67Field, Thomas, 19Fields, David, 82Fisher, Anne Gray, 70Fishman, Edward, 57Fitzgerald, David, 24Forsberg, Carl, 94Forslund, Catherine, 44Fosler-Lussier, Danielle, 3Foss, Sarah, 76Foster, Anne, 16Francis, Hilary, 41Frazier, Jessica, 3Fredman, Zach, 90Freeman, Stephanie, 38Frey, Marc, 16, 63Friedman, Andrew, 61

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Merleaux, April, 35Metsner, Michael, 88Meyerowitz, Joanne, 71Michel, Laura, 6Milbourne, Karen, 47Miles, Simon, 79Miller, Chris, 5Miller, Christopher, 6Miller, Jennifer, 83Miller-Davenport, Sarah, 87

Milne, David, 8Minami, Kazushi, 36Mitelplunkt, Shaul, 43Mohan, Shannon, 26Moniz, Amanda, 6Montoya, Benjamin, 68Moran, Katherine, 80Moreshead, Ashley, 18Moulton, Aaron Coy, 65Muehlenbeck, Phil, 73Mueller, Brian, 9Muir-Harmony, Teasel, 58Muldoon, Andrew, 16Mullen, Abby, 55Mundy, Jacob, 10Murphey, Oliver, 19Musto, Ryan, 28

NNaftali, Timothy, 67Neale, Ashley, 26Neu, Charles, 25Ngai, Mae, Keynote Speaker

Nguyen, Lien-Hang, 67Nichols, Christopher McKnight, 1

Nickles, David Paull, 4Nix, Shannon, 73

OO’Connell, Aaron, 57Offiler, Ben, 92Offner, Amy, 71, 95Orkaby, Asher, 34Oyen, Meredith, 32, 82

PPack, Benjamin Jared, 38Paik, A. Naomi, 60Painter, David, 27Parrott, R. Joseph, 86Passemiers, Lazlo, 17Patti, Carlo, 28Pelopidas, Benoit, 2Perkowski, Leon, 81Petrulis, Jason, 90Pettiná, Vanni, 50Phelps, Nicole, 43Piller, Elisabeth, 43Pitman, Paul, 78Power, Margaret, 15, 65Prentice, David, 67Preston, Andrew, 40Priest, Andrew, 89Proctor, Tammy, 87

QQin, Yucheng, 33Quinney, Kimber, 14, 69Quraishi, Uzma, 15, 66

RRausch, Helke, 48Rees, Anne, 68Reinstein, Thomas, 91Renouard, Joseph, 1Reyes, Marc, 66Rietzler, Katharina, 39Roberts, Priscilla, 51Roebuck, Kristin, 83, 93Romero, E. Kyle, 76Rood, Daniel, 35Rossinow, Doug, 85

Rotter, Andrew, 30, 43Ruth, Christian Tyler, 31Rutkowski, Marek, 8

SSakamoto, Masaki, 93Sanders, Ethan, 22Sarantakes, Nick, 7, 82Sarkar, Jayita, 54Savranskaya, Svetlana, 91Sayle, Tim, 26Sayward, Amy, 14, 76Sbardellati, John, 75Scaglia, Ilaria, 39Schimer, Wendy Wong, 11Schmidli, William Michael, 1, 73

Schmidt, Elizabeth, 17Schmitz, David, 73Schors, Arvid, 48Schrader, Stuart, 21Schwartz, Thomas, 11, 49Scott, Katherine, 11Scott-Smith, Giles, 3Selverstone, Marc, 55Selvage, Douglas, 91Shaffer, Robert, 33Shannon, Kelly, 52, 78Shannon, Matthew, 27Sharnak, Debbie, 19Sherry, Michael, 59Shibusawa, Naoko, 45Shief, Luke, 37Shifrinson, Joshua R. Itzkowitz, 79

Shorten, David, 89Shrout, Anelise Hanson, 6Sibley, Katherine, 44, 75Simpson, Bradley, 9, 95Smith, Tom, 18Snyder, David, 16Snyder, Sarah, 53Sparrow, Bartholomew, 8Spektor, Matias, 28


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GGage, Beverly, 13Gardner, Lloyd, 23, 59Garlitz, Richard, 88Garner, Terri, 78Geohegan, Kate, 79Gertis, Frank, 17Gibson, Emily, 58Goedde, Petra, 30, 70Goldgeier, James, 78Goldsmith, Jack, PlenaryGoode, James, 31Gorman, Henry, 76Gould, Eliga, 72Gray, William Glenn, 48Greenstein, David, 43Grunden, Walter, 34Guglielmo, Tom, 61Guild, Joshua, 60Gurel, Perin, 74

HHaeussler, Mathias, 49Hahn, Peter, 85Harrison, Hope, 91Hart, Justin, 11, 88Hayford, Charles, 33He, Hui, 36Heefner, Gretchen, 54Heiss, Ann, 16Hershberg, James, 28Higuchi, Toshihiro, 2Hiltner, Aaron, 70Hirschhorn, Sarah, 74, 85Hixson, Walter, 88Hobson, Alex, 46Hoganson, Kristin, 23, 72Hollinger, David, 40Horn, Oliver, 51Howard, Adam, 78Hsu, Melanie, 40Hudson, Peter James, 35Hummel, Daniel, 14

IIandolo, Alessandro, 5, 17Immerman, Richard, 15, 78Immerwahr, Daniel, 23, 40, 61

Irwin, Julia, 61, 84Irwin, Ryan, 56, 86

JJenison, Denise Laszewski,52Jensen, Steven, 1, 50Jo, Eunseo, 45Johnson, Ronald Angelo, 11Johnstone, Andrew, 29Jones, Jeannette Eileen, 60

KKadura, Johannes, 67Kami, Hideaki, 32Kaplan, Lawrence, 38Karayam, Hasan, 4Kaufman, Micki, 55Kedar, Claudia, 50Kershaw, Paul, 92Kennedy, Ross, 12Keys, Barbara, 30, 43Khalil, Osamah, 10, 46Kieran, David, 24Kim, Jooeun, 82Kim, Lili, 77Kim, Kevin, 36Kim, Seung-Young, 81Kinnebrew, Jeanna, 66Kinsella, Helen, PlenaryKirkendall, Andrew, 9Kirschner, Sabrina, 63Klein, Christina, 36Kovner, Sarah, 83Kramer, Mark, 20Kramer, Paul, 35, 45Krepp, Stella, 29, 50Kupsky, George, 93

LLabelle, Maurice, 22, 74Laderman, Charles, 12Laderman, Scott, 59, 88Lai, Keshia, 88Laszewski, Denise, 52Lawlor, Ruth, 70Lawrence, Mark Atwood, 56, 73

LeBlanc, Zoe, 55Lebovic, Sam, 84 Ledford, Joseph, 94Lee, Heather Ruth, 77Leffler, Melvyn, 30Lentz-Smith, Adriane, 60,84

Lerner, Mitch, 20, 82Logevall, Fred, 62Long, Steve, 15Longley, Kyle, 41, 94Lowe, Kimberly, 53Lum, Kathryn Gin, 80Lynn, Katalin Kádár, 42

MMacDonnell, Francis, 75Macekura, Stephen, 71, 95Mantilla, Giovanni, 53Margolies, Daniel, 39, 64Mariano, Marco, 29Marino, Alexander, 86Matlock, Jack, 20, 62Matray, Jim, 90Matthews, Jeffrey, 94Mayers, David, 25McAlister, Melani, 40, 72McCormick, Evan, 41McFarland, Kelly, 14, 38McGarr, Paul, 66McGreevey, Robert, 68McKercher, Asa, 49McKenzie, Brian, 15McLennan, Rebecca, 64McNay, John, 44

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Stauffer, Lauren, 38Stein, Howard, 50Stern, Roger, 10Stieb, Joseph, 4Stocker, James, 4Stout, Mark, 42Strauss, Charles, 18Suri, Jeremi, 9

TTauber, Mark, 14Thomas, Troy, 57Thompson, Elizabeth, 74Thompson, John, 12Thornton, Christy, 95Throntveit, Trygve, 8Tobia, Simona, 26Tobin, Conor, 31Tuffnell, Stephen, 54, 89Tworek, Heidi, 39

VVan Vleck, Jenifer, 46, 58Varela, Tomás Pérez, 65Viden, Anna, 46von Eschen, Penny, 87Vuic, Kara Dixon, 87

WWalker, Vanessa, 41Warner, Michael, 42Waterhouse, Amanda, 76Way, Jennifer, 7Weber, Isabella, 5Weichselbraun, Anna, 2Wells, Allison, 68Wenger, Tisa, 80Wilford, Hugh, 15, 42Williams, Ronald, II, 37Wilson, Andrew, 55Witt, John Fabian, PlenaryWolffhardt, Tobias, 63

Woods, Colleen, 21, 45Woods, Randall, 25, 37Worsencroft, John, 24Wright, Dustin, 83Wright, Micah, 65

XXia, Yafeng, 51

YYaqub, Salim, 46, 85Yoshii, Midori, 81

ZZdencanvoic, Ben, 7Zheng, Yanqiu, 36Zoller, Silke, 53

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The 2017 SHAFR annual meeting will be held June 22-24 at the RenaissanceArlington Capital View in Arlington, Virginia. The LEED-certified Capital View islocated at 2800 South Potomac Avenue, two miles from Ronald Reagan WashingtonNational Airport (airport code DCA). There is complimentary hotel shuttle serviceevery 20 minutes between 7 am and 11 pm to DCA and the Crystal City Metro (Blueand Yellow Metro lines). In the lobby, SOCCi Urban Italian Kitchen and Bar servesbreakfast, lunch, and dinner, while Espressamente illy Coffee House serves coffee andlight fare during the day. A 24-hour fitness center and heated indoor pool are alsoavailable on site, and there is complimentary wi-fi access in the lobby. SHAFR hotelguests will receive complimentary internet access in their sleeping rooms.The Renaissance Arlington Capital View is ADA compliant. All meeting spaces are onone level and are accessible via elevators connected to the lobby level and guestrooms. There are a total of eight ADA king rooms, three of which have a roll-inshower/shower chair. In addition, eighteen king rooms are hearing accessible. Pleasecontact the conference coordinator if you have any other questions regardingaccessibility.

New this year: A hospitality suite for parents of infants and small children will beavailable throughout the conference. See the SHAFR 2017 webpage for moreinformation as well as links to childcare resources in the area.

Conference room rates are $165/night, single or double occupancy, plus tax. The taxrate is currently 13%. The deadline for receiving the conference rate is June 1, 2017.Please note that the hotel is required to honor the reduced rate until this date ORuntil all the rooms in the SHAFR block have been booked. Once the block is fullybooked, the hotel will offer rooms at its usual rate, if any are available, or may evenbe completely full. Please make your reservation as early as you can. Reservationscan be made by calling 1-800-228-9290, and mentioning “SHAFR 2017.” Onlinebooking is available at https://goo.gl/hKdPyC.

Looking to cut down on conference attendance costs? The Coordinating Council forWomen in History (CCWH) offers support for finding a roommate. Any conferenceattendee interested in taking advantage of this opportunity should contact theCCWH-SHAFR Liaison Ilaria Scaglia at [email protected] (subjectline: SHAFR roommate).

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Arriving by Air: Dulles International Airport

Dulles International Airport is approximately 28 miles from the Renaissance ArlingtonCapital View. The hotel does NOT provide shuttle service to/from Dulles. SuperShuttle, a shared-ride, service requires reservations (www.supershuttle.com). The fareis estimated at $30 one way. Taxi fare is estimated at $60 one way. You can also takethe Silver Line Express from the Arrivals Level Door 4 of the Main Terminal Buildingto the Wiehle Avenue/Reston East Metro Station. Fare is $5 one way, and the trip isabout 10 minutes depending on traffic conditions. Then transfer to the Metro link(additional fare applies), take it inbound to Rosslyn and transfer to the Blue linetoward Franconia/Springfield. Exit at Crystal City and follow the directions for thehotel Metro shuttle below. The Metro trip may take up to 1 hour.

Arriving by train or inter-city bus service to Union Station

Take the Metro Red Line toward Shady Grove. At Gallery Place/Chinatown, transferto the Yellow Line toward Huntington. Exit the Metro at Crystal City and follow thedirections below.

Arriving by Metro

If you are arriving via Metro, take the Yellow or Blue line to Crystal City. Exit thestation and pick up the complimentary hotel shuttle outside where the city busesstop. It is a gray van with red Residence Inn and Renaissance Arlington logos. Metroshuttle service begins at 7 AM, departing from the hotel, and runs every 20 minutesthroughout the day until 11 PM. If you prefer to walk from the Metro to the hotelvenue, the distance from the Crystal City Metro station to the Renaissance ArlingtonCapitol View hotel is 0.7 miles, an approximately 15-minute walk.

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The hotel is located at 2800 South Potomac Avenue in Arlington, Virginia, 22202.

Parking at the hotel for SHAFR registrants is $18/day for self-parking or $20/day valet.

Arriving by Air: Reagan National Airport

Reagan National Airport is just two miles from the Renaissance Arlington CapitalView, and the hotel provides a complimentary airport shuttle.

The Crystal Gateway Marriott operates the airport shuttle for the RenaissanceArlington Capital View. Look for a gray van with white logo and lettering.

Shuttles operate 7 days a week. Shuttles pick up at the airport beginning at 5:00 AM,departing at 5:00, 5:30, and 6:00 AM, then every 20 minutes throughout the dayuntil 9:00 PM. From 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM, shuttles run every 20 minutes but are on-call. Pick up and drop off at Terminal A (hotel shuttle area) or Gates 5 and 9 on Level1 of Terminal B & C. Guests will automatically be picked up at the airport, but guestsat the hotel who need to go to the airport must call the shuttle for service. See thereservations desk for assistance.

Terminal A: From Terminal A Baggage Claim (street level), proceed outside and crossthe center median. All hotel shuttle services pick up and drop off in this area.

Terminal B (Door 5): From Terminal B Baggage Claim (lower level), proceed justoutside of Door #5. The shuttle service picks up and drops off guests in thisdesignated area.

Terminal C (Door 9): From Terminal C Baggage Claim (lower level), proceed justoutside of Door #5 or Door #9 (whichever is closer). The shuttle service picks upand drops off in this designated area.

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