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JEFFREY A. ENGEL

Email:  jaengel@smu.edu       http://www.smu.edu/News/2012/engels-appointments-09may2012

Curriculum vita

Center for Presidential History

Associate Professor of History

  • Presidential Studies

  • American Diplomatic History

 

Educational Background

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. in American History, 2001

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Master of Arts in American History, 1996

  • Cornell University, Bachelor of Arts, Magna cum Laude in History, 1995

  • Oxford University, St. Catherine’s College, Trinity Term, 1994

 

Academic Employment

Southern Methodist University

  • Director of the Center for Presidential History, 2012-Present

  • Associate Professor of History, 2012-Present

  • Senior Fellow, John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, 2012 to Present

Texas A&M University, Bush School of Government & Public Service

  • Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, 2009-2012

  • Verlin and Howard Kruse '52 Founders Professor, 2009-2012

  • Assistant Professor of History and Public Policy, 2004-2009

  • Evelyn and Ed F. Kruse '49 Faculty Fellow, 2006-2009

Texas A&M University, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs

  • Director of Programming, 2009-2012

  • Interim Director, 2008-2009

  • Associate Director, 2007-2008

University of Pennsylvania

  • Lecturer in History and International Relations, 2003-2004

Yale University

  • Visiting Fellow, International Security Studies, Spring 2007

  • Olin Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Studies, 2001-2003

  • Lecturer in the Department of History, 2002-2003

Selected Publications

Into the Desert: Reflections on the Gulf War, Jeffrey A. Engel, ed(New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Rethinking Leadership and “Whole of Government” National Security Reform, with Joseph R. Cerami, (Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2010).

The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989, Jeffrey A. Engel, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).  Excerpted in Foreignpolicy.com, November 9, 2009.

The China Diary of George H.W Bush: The Making of a Global President (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).  Excerpted in Newsweek, December 24, 2007.

Local Consequences of the Global Cold War, Jeffrey A. Engel, ed. (Palo Alto and Washington, DC: Stanford University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008).

Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007). American Historical Association’s 2008 Paul Birdsall Prize, awarded biannually to the outstanding work published in European Military and Strategic History.

Fellowships and Awards:

  • Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Bernath Lecture Prize, 2012

  • Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2012

  • Texas A&M Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching, 2011

  • Texas A&M University Competitive Faculty Development Leave, 2011.

  • History News Network “Top Young Historian,” 2010

  • Texas A&M University System Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award, 2010

  • Verlin and Howard Kruse '52 Founders Professor, 2009-Present

  • Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, Texas A&M University, 2008

  • 2008 Paul Birdsall Prize in European Military and Strategic History for Cold War at 30,000 Feet, American Historical Association

  • Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Summer Institute Participant, 2008

  • Bush Faculty Excellence Award (Annually Awarded to Outstanding Faculty Member), 2007

  • Evelyn and Ed F. Kruse '49 Faculty Fellow, Awarded to Outstanding GBS Assistant Professor, 2006-2009

  • Visiting Fellow, International Security Studies, Yale University, 2007

  • Silver Star Award, Awarded by Graduating Students to Outstanding Bush School Professor, 2006

  • John M. Olin Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Studies, Yale University, 2001-2003

  • Visiting Fellow, Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Temple University, 2000-2001

  • Guggenheim Research Fellow (renewed), National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2000

  • Guggenheim Research Fellow, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1999-2000

  • W. Stull Holt Memorial Fellowship of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2000

  • United States Military Academy, West Point, Summer Teaching Fellow in Military History, 1999

  • Research Fellow, Harry S Truman Presidential Library Institute, 1999

  • Dissertation Research Fellow, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation, 1999

  • Visiting Research Fellow, Eisenhower World Affairs Council (Eisenhower Library), 1999

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison Vilas Fellow, 1997

  • Blattberg Writing Award, University of Wisconsin Department of History, 1997

  • Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanistic Studies, 1995-1996

  • George Lustig Prize, Awarded to Outstanding History Department Graduate, Cornell University, 1995

  • Ford Foundation Scholar of the Cornell University Institute for Modern European Studies, 1994

 

 

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