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Examples of WAGE Distinguished Visitor Engagements
Brian Williams
Professor of History, UMass-Dartmouth
“"The Forgotten Wars: Overview of the Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan" and "Teaching about the War on Terror and Islam" (at the Teaching American History Workshop, Madison Metropolitan School District)” (5/09).
Gordon Goldstein
Author
“"Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam"” (4/09).
Rufus Phillips
Author
“"Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned"” (4/09).
Robert Brigham
Professor of History and International Relations, Vassar College
“"A New Deal for Vietnam"” (4/09).
Michael Dobbs
Author and Journalist
“"One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro, on the Brink of Nuclear War"” (10/08).
Naomi Klein
Bestselling Journalist and Author
"The Shock Doctrine" (11/08)
Frank Costigliola
Professor of History, University of Connecticut
“"The Perils of Intimacy: Harry Hopkins as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s National Security Adviser"” (9/08).
John Campbell
Former United States Ambassador to Nigeria
"Nigeria: Key U.S. Ally in Sub-Saharan Africa" (5/08)
Scott Ritter
Former United Nations Weapons Inspector in Iraq
"Waging Peace: Citizenship in a Time of War" (04/08)
"The Reality of Arms Control: From the Trenches" (04/08)
Joseph T. Glatthaar
Stephenson Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse" (04/08)
David W. Blight
Class of 1954 Professor of American History, Yale University
"A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom" (04/08)
Robert McMahon
Mershon Distinguished Professor of History, The Ohio State University
"Dean Acheson and the Building of an American-Led World Order" (02/08)
Chester Pach
Professor of History, Ohio University
"War and the Media: From Vietnam to Iraq" (02/08)
Eswar Prasad
Cornell University Senior Tolani Professor of Trade Policy and Former Chief of the IMF's China Division
"Are China's and India's Growth Miracles Built to Last?" (02/08)
Michael Desch
Professor and Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security Decision-Making, Texas A&M University
"Bush and the Generals: What Went Wrong?" (10/07)
Daniel Benjamin
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
"The Global War on Terror: A Status Report" (10/07)
Andrew Rotter
Professor of History, Colgate University
"Narratives of Bombing: Tokyo and Hiroshima, 1945" (10/07)
Mark Stoler
Professor of History, University of Vermont
"The Road to Iraq: The Origin and Evolution of U.S. Interests in the Middle East" (3/07)
Campbell Craig
Professor of History, University of Southampton
"The Nuclear Revolution in the History and Practice of US Foreign Policy" (09/06).
"The Atomic Bombing of Japan: Ending World War II or Beginning the Cold War?" (09/06).
Sir David Manning
British Ambassador to the United States
"Britain's Perspectives on Climate Change" (09/06).
Robert Schulzinger
Director of the International Affairs Program and Professor of History, University of Colorado
"Vietnam and Iraq: Historical Lessons for Today" (9/06).
"The Living Legacy of the Vietnam War" (9/06).
Alex Roland
Professor of History, Duke University
"The Long War Dead: The Politics and Reality of Casualties in Iraq" (4/06).
Brian Linn
Professor of History at Texas A&M University
"The Savage Wars for Peace: The Philippine War and War in Iraq" (2/06).
Harvey Kaye
Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
"Thomas Paine and America's Unfinished Revolution" (2/06).
Amy Celico
Deputy Director of the Office of the Chinese Economic Area at the U.S. Department of Commerce
"U.S.-China Trade Relations and the WTO" (12/05).
Walter Cutler
President, Meridian International Center and Former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
"Saudi Arabia, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Oil" (11/05).
Carl Schramm
Kauffman Foundation
WAGE/INSITE Policy Lecture Series (10/05).
Rita Colwell
Chair at Canon US Life Sciences, Inc., and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland-College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
"Water Pollution and Human Health" (10/05).
Hugo Paemen
Former EU Ambassador to the United States, currently Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University
"Conflicting U.S. and European Approaches to the New World Order: Economic Relations and Security" (4/03)
Daniel Bodansky
Professor of Law, University of Washington Law School
"Global Climate Change Law and Policy: The Growing Split between U.S. and European Climate Change Policies" (4/02)
David Aaron
Senior International Advisor, Dorsey & Whitney LLP and former U.S. Ambassador to the OECD and U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
"Biotechnology and Transatlantic Relations" (3/02)
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