Research and Teaching Interests: U.S. 20^th century history, U.S. foreign relations, culture and gender in transnational contexts.

My research interests are in U.S. foreign relations, U.S.-European relations, transnational culture and gender history. I have written a book on the U.S. occupation of Germany after World War II and articles on U.S foreign relations and the globalization of American culture. I am currently at work on a book-length project on the global discourse on peace during the early cold war, as well as a chapter on global culture since 1945 for a multi-volume World History, edited by Akira Iriye and Jürgen Osterhammel. In addition I am co-editing with Richard Immerman the Oxford Handbook on the Cold War. In 2007-08 I am serving as chair of the Bernath Book Prize committee of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).

Representative Publications:
GIs and Germans:  Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949 (New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2003).

"The Globalization of American Culture," in Karen Halttunen, ed., A Companion to American Cultural History (Malden, MA:  Blackwell, 2008).

“Gender, Race, and Power: American Soldiers and the German Population,” in Detlef Junker, ed., The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1968, (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2004).

“From Villains to Victims: Fraternization and the Feminization of Germany, 1945-1947,” Diplomatic History,  vol. 23, No.1  (Winter 1999).

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