Teaching
I teach several introductory and advanced undergraduate courses. At the introductory and intermediate levels, I teach HIST2110 - The United States Since 1877, HIST3900: Introdcution to the Study of History; and HIST3130: History of American Foreign Relations. At the advanced level, I regularly teach HIST4280: The United States Since 1960; and HIST4390: The American War in Vietnam. My other teaching interests include War and Society and the Histories of American Media and Cinema.
At the graduate level, I teach readings and research seminars in recent American History. Most recently I taught HIST6080: The United States and the World, which focuses on the intersections of diplomatic, cultural, and social history.
Scholarship
My research has focused primarily on the intersections of foreign
policy and cultural production. My first book, Invisible Enemies: The
American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000, is an examination of American
policy toward Vietnam since 1975, combining studies of cultural
representations from a variety of media, international political
economy, and political and diplomatic history. In it, I argue that
the United States continued its war against Vietnam after 1975 "by
other means:" cultural, political, diplomatic, and economic.
Invisible Enemies was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in September 2007 as part of the Culture, Politics, and the
Cold War series.
My second project focuses on the history and legacies of Agent Orange. Putting the Agent itself at the center of my narrative, I trace the journey of this artifact across national and chronological boundaries, I then explore the various manifestations of Agent Orange—as herbicide, weapon, propaganda, illness, lawsuit, scar, and memory. Taking into account perspectives from several nations and localities, this study reveals the ways different groups negotiated the meanings of Agent Orange, the environment, and the war in Vietnam, at different moments in time.
I am also working with a colleague on a co-edited volume entitled Vietnam and "Vietnam" After 1975: Transnational Perspectives on the Legacies of the Second Indochina War.
Publications
Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007).
"Much More Than My Lai," Reviews in American History Vol. 35, No. 3
(September, 2007), 432-439.
“The Virtual Walls and the Widows of War Memorial," Journal of
American History Vol. 87, No. 3 (December, 2000), 987-991.
Other Professional Activities
I am currently the editor for the H-1960s listserv (http://www.h-
net.org/~h-1960s), and an article review editor for H-Diplo, a
discussion network dedicated to studying the history of foreign relations (http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/). Here at WMU, I am also the faculty advisor for Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honors society (http://homepages.wmich.edu/%7Ek1barry/)
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