About Us
The Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy (CENFAD), founded in 1993 by Drs. Richard Immerman, Russell Weigley, and David Rosenberg, fosters interdisciplinary faculty and student research on the historic and contemporary use of force and diplomacy in a global context. CENFAD is housed within Temple University’s History Department.
The Marvin Wachman Director of CENFAD, Dr. Richard Immerman, reports to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University and to CENFAD’s Board of Advisors. CENFAD sponsors lectures, colloquia, workshops, and conferences on an ongoing basis (listed under News and Events); and various multi-year projects.
Each year, CENFAD gives several prizes to recognize and support undergraduate and graduate research in military, diplomatic, and international history. CENFAD reports its activities twice a year in its newsletter Strategic Visions Magazine.
CENFAD is the home of the HERTOG PROGRAM IN GRAND STRATEGY. Click here to learn more about the Hertog Program in Grand Strategy, read the course syllabus, and read some of the essays produced by the seminar.
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Imagining Cold War Environments
April 26/27, 2012
NEWS FOR THE CENFAD COMMUNITY:
* Former Davis Fellows Matt Shannon and Tim Sayle each received much-sought-after Bemis Grants from SHAFR! Tim will use the funds for a return trip to Brussels to conduct research for his dissertation, "A Western Alliance? The Evolution of NATO, 1956-1966." Matt's dissertation is "Losing Hearts and Minds: American Foreign Relations and Iranian Student Migration during the Cold War." Writing a transnational history, Matt will use the funds to visit multiple archives.
* Tim Sayle, 2009-2010 Thomas Davis Fellow, has won a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada that will fund his studies and research for the next two years. Federally funded SSHRC fellowships are highly competitive and much sought after by Canadians at home and abroad. We at CENFAD, and Temple's Department of History, could not be prouder. See Tim's recent publication, "'But he has nothing on at all!': Canada and the Iraq War, 2003," in Canadian Military History 19:4 (Autumn 2010).
* Congratulations to former Davis Fellow David Zierler. The University of Georgia Press has published his The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think about the Environment.
* Kelly Shannon, a former Davis Fellow, has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Alaska-Anchorage. Congratulations, Kelly!
* Former graduate student Brady King has been nominated by President Obama for appointment as Senior Advisor to the Vice President and Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
* The University of Oklahoma Press published Temple Ph.D. and current Army War College faculty member Michael Matheny's Carrying the War to the Enemy: American Operational Art to 1945.
* CENFAD would like to extend a hearty congratulation to Andrew McKevitt; a Temple alum, former Thomas Davis fellow, and current professor
at Philadelphia University. He was recently awarded SHAFR's 2010
Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize for his article: "'You Are
Not Alone!': Anime and the Globalizing of America,"Diplomatic History 34 (November 2010).
* Along with his co-editors, Vladislav Zubok has won SHAFR's Arthur S. Link-Warren Kuehl Prize for the edited volume, Masterpieces of History: The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989. The prize recognizes outstanding collections of primary source materials in the field of international history.
* Michael Dolski has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command’s Central Identification Laboratory inHawaii.
* CENFAD's Wachman Director, Dr. Richard Immerman, is the feature interview in the latest edition of Rorotoko.com. He discusses his latest book, Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz. Read the interview here.
* Beth Bailey's America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force continues to receive high praise and was recently reviewed by John Nagl for the journal Democracy. Dr. Bailey was the feature of the cover interview for March 19's edition of Rorotoko. Click here to read the interview.
