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Emeritus Professor of History
Expertise: 20th-century U.S. history, U.S. foreign policy, Middle East, Latin America, Vietnam War, American labor unions, trade expansion, 20th-century American culture, protest in America
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Author of The United States, the PLO, and Stability in the Middle East, Henry Berger focuses on the history of American foreign relations, with particular interest in U.S. relations with the Middle East and Latin America. Berger, who has written on various aspects of U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century, teaches a course on the history of U.S. foreign relations since 1945 and co-teaches a seminar on American involvement in the Vietnam War. He was chair of the Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies Program at Washington University from 1981-89, and acting chair of the program in 1995-96.
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Education:
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Ph.D. in American History at University of Wisconsin
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M.S. in American History at University of Wisconsin
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B.A. in History at Ohio State University
Additional Background: The following information was downloaded from Berger's Web page 12/03:
A member of the Washington University faculty since 1970, Berger received a doctoral degree in American history from the University of Wisconsin in 1966. He specializes in American foreign policy, with particular interest in U.S. relations with the Middle East and Latin America. He also co-teaches a seminar on American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Experience
Instructor to assistant professor, University of Vermont, 1965-69 / Assistant professor to associate professor, Washington University, 1970- / Visiting professor, Sir George Williams Faculty of Arts, Concordia University, Canada, 1975-76 / Chair Undergraduate Committee, 1977-81, 1984-88, 1994-1998 / Coordinator, Department of History and University College 1994-98 / Chair, Jewish and Near Eastern Studies, 1981-89 / Acting Chair, Jewish and Near Eastern Studies, 1995-96
National Endowment for the Humanities fellow 1972-73 / Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Teaching Development Grant, 1984 / William T. Kemper Foundation Grant, 1997-98 / Council of Students of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Teaching and Service Award, 1984 / Phi Alpha Theta Professor of the Year Award, 2001
Select Books
- A William Appleman Williams Reader: Selections from His Major Historical Writings, Ivan R. Dee, 1992
Select Journal Articles
- "Laissez-faire for Latin America: Senator Borah Defines the Monroe Doctrine," Idaho Yesterdays, Summer 1965
- "A Conservative Critique of Containment: Senator Taft on the Early Cold War Program," in Containment and Revolution, ed. D. Horowitz, Beacon, 1967
- "Senator Robert A. Taft Dissents from Military Escalation," in Cold War Critics: Alternatives to American Foreign Policy in the Truman Era, ed. T. Paterson, Quadrangle, 1971
- "American Unions and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1933-41," in From Colony to Empire: American Diplomatic History, ed. W.A. Williams, Wiley, 1972
- "Warren Austin in China, 1916-1917," Vermont History Autumn 1972
- "Bipartisanship, Senator Taft and the Truman Administration," Political Science Quarterly, Summer 1975
- "Unions and Empire: Organized Labor and American Corporations Abroad," Peace and Change, Spring 1976
- "Organized Labor and American Foreign Policy," in The American Working Class: Prospects for the 1980's, eds. I. Horowitz et al., Transaction 1979
- "A Comment on Controlling the Transnational Corporation: The Issue of Codes of Conduct," Peace and Change, Winter 1984
Currently in Progress
- Serafino Romualdi / American labor attaches / St. Louis and trade expansion / Bolivian tin and American labor unions
