Historian of US foreign relations, Iran, & women’s human rights. Author of US Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights @ Penn Press. Writing a book on early 20th c. US-Iran relations. Philly sports fan. Visiting Scholar @ GWU IMES ‘24-‘26 🗃️
Historian of US foreign relations, particularly the Vietnam War. Author most recently of - Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam- (PublicAffairs, 2018) and -This is a True War Story: My Improbable History with Vietnam- (Chicago, 2026).
Associate Professor of History at Virginia Tech.
Current project: a biography of international human rights activist Ginetta Sagan.
Official journal for the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
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Historian of US foreign aid, disasters, and international humanitarianism. Author of *Making the World Safe* (OUP ’13) and *Catastrophic Diplomacy* (UNC ’24). Co-editor of *InterConnections: The Global 20th Century* (UNC) and *Journal of Disaster Studies*
World's largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of US history.
Historians of the Twentieth Century U.S. (HOTCUS) promotes scholarship in 20th century American history through conferences and awards. Become a member! - https://hotcus.org.uk/
Author of Executing the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World (OUP, 2016). Featured in Netflix's Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War. Professor at California State University, Fresno
Now available on bluesky. Mostly history. Occasional Yacht Rock and sport. Author of Spinning the World: The Public Relations Industry and American Foreign Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and more
Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management
📚 Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports
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www.dmu.ac.uk/heatherdichter
Official Account of PASSPORT: THE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS REVIEW
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
est. 1967
#SHAFR2026 - The Ohio State University - June 25-27, 2026
Diplomatic historian, Director of East Asian Studies at Ohio State. Former director of Institute for Korean Studies, former SHAFR president. Boxer, hockey player, beer drinker, Democrat, Red Sox fan. Gets hurt a lot (especially lately).
