Sheyda Jahanbani
Assistant Professor, History
sfaj@ku.edu
Primary office:
3611 Wescoe Hall
|
Current Research
|
Exploring the democratization of American and Western European foreign policy in the post-World War II period, charting the rise and exploring the significance of the celebrity-diplomat, people-to-people diplomacy, overseas volunteer programs, and the non-governmental organization as major players in international relations. |
|
|
|
|
Current Projects
|
'A Different Kind of People:' The Poor at Home and Abroad, 1935-1975, seeks to historicize the origins of a global conception of poverty. |
|
|
|
|
Research Interests
|
US and the World; International Approaches to Poverty, history of the U.S. and the world (1776-2001), modern U.S. history, the history of international cooperation, the cold war at home and abroad, the U.S. and the "third world," global poverty, U.S.-Latin American relations |
|
|
|
|
Selected Publications
|
A Different Kind of People: The Poor at Home and Abroad, 1935-1975 (book project in progress). "'One Global War on Poverty:' Fighting Underdevelopment at Home and Abroad, 1964-1968." In The United States and the Global Challenges of the 1960s. Mark Lawrence and Frank Gavin, eds. (volume under consideration Oxford University Press). |
|
|
|
|
Courses Taught
|
HIST 390: History of Globalization |
|
|
|
|
Education
|
B.A. Foreign Service (1999); M.A. Georgetown University (2001); Ph.D. Brown University (2009) |
|
|
|
| Language Competence | French (4); Spanish (2) |
