Spring 2008
Stephen Knott, of the U.S. Naval War College, and David Krugler, of the University of Wisconsin in Platteville, return to the MAHG program this summer to co-teach the Session 5 elective, "American Foreign Policy." Knott, who earned his Ph.D at Boston College, has studied and written on the U.S. presidency and on military and foreign affairs. He has given particular attention to Alexander Hamilton, publishing Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth (2002), which traces the changing assessment of this founding father in American political thought. His forthcoming book, At Reagan’s Side: An Oral History of the Man and the President, is derived from a unique collection assembled by Knott for the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. Krugler, who holds a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, researches diplomatic history, political history, and international affairs. In 2000 he published The Voice of America and the Domestic Propaganda Battles, 1945–1953, which analyzed American public diplomacy in the context of political rivalries on the home front. His 2006 study, This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War, examines tensions in American civil defense planning that continue to influence post-9/11 preparations.
Colleen Sheehan and John Marini will teach the Session 4 elective, "American Statesmen: Madison and Wilson." Sheehan teaches political science at Villanova University and researches eighteenth century political and ethical thought. Her book James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government will be published in October by Cambridge University Press. Marini, who is Professor of Political science at the University of Nevada, Reno, frequently writes on public administration, bureaucratic politics, and the tri-partite division of powers in the U.S. government. He is author of The Politics of Budget Control (1992) and he co-edited The Imperial Congress: Crisis in the Separation of Powers (1989). Most recently, he co-edited The Progressive Revolution in Politics and Political Science (2005).