Robert Buzzanco
Encyclopedia
Robert Buzzanco is a scholar of 20th century U.S. history and diplomatic history. He is also one of the America’s leading authorities on the Vietnam War
and the dynamics that encompassed this time period. Buzzanco received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University
and currently sits as chair of the History Department at the University of Houston
. Buzzanco has lectured at national conferences on the Second Gulf War, globalization and the influence of the industrial military complex. Among his other many professional activities, he has served as the Chair of the Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize Committee for Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. Buzzanco has also contributed to national newspapers and magazines such as the Baltimore Sun, Houston Chronicle and Newsday magazine. He has been interviewed or cited by various international media such as the BBC, NPR, the Financial Times, Al-Jazeerra and the Islamic News Network.
and Terror". He has also taught graduate courses on the Vietnam War, post-1945 U.S. history, and U.S. foreign relations ("Empire, War, and Diplomacy"), as well as numerous research seminars. Buzzanco has been the advisor on many dissertation thesis committees. He currently teaches at the University of Houston
, in Houston, Texas.
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
and the dynamics that encompassed this time period. Buzzanco received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
and currently sits as chair of the History Department at the University of Houston
University of Houston
The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...
. Buzzanco has lectured at national conferences on the Second Gulf War, globalization and the influence of the industrial military complex. Among his other many professional activities, he has served as the Chair of the Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize Committee for Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. Buzzanco has also contributed to national newspapers and magazines such as the Baltimore Sun, Houston Chronicle and Newsday magazine. He has been interviewed or cited by various international media such as the BBC, NPR, the Financial Times, Al-Jazeerra and the Islamic News Network.
Teaching
Buzzanco teaches a variety of courses in U.S. history, including, at the undergraduate level, both halves of the survey, the history of the Vietnam War, America in the 1960s, and U.S. foreign policy, as well as a new course in 2004 titled "War, GlobalizationGlobalization
Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
and Terror". He has also taught graduate courses on the Vietnam War, post-1945 U.S. history, and U.S. foreign relations ("Empire, War, and Diplomacy"), as well as numerous research seminars. Buzzanco has been the advisor on many dissertation thesis committees. He currently teaches at the University of Houston
University of Houston
The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...
, in Houston, Texas.
Research
Buzzanco is the author or editor of three books, and he has written more than twenty articles that have appeared in scholarly publications and major newspapers. His current works include a manuscript on culture and politics for Oxford’s VSI series, as well as his continuing work on the political economy of the 1960s and the impact of the Vietnam War on the U.S. economy.Selected publications
- Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era. Cambridge University Press, 1996 [Paperback, 1997]. Recipient of Stuart L. Bernath Prize, awarded by Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. Chapter on Tet Offensive excerpted in Robert McMahon, ed, Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War, 3d edition.
- Co-editor, with Marilyn B. Young. A Companion to the Vietnam War. A collection of essays on Vietnam in the "Blackwell Companion Series.” (Blackwell Publishers, 2002).
- "The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam during the Johnson Years", in Young and Buzzanco, A Companion to the Vietnam War, (Blackwell Publishers, 2002).
- Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life (Blackwell Publishers, "Problems in American History" Series, 1999).
- "Anti-Imperialism" in Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations, 2002
- "How Did Iraq and the United States Become Enemies", History News Network, 28 October 2002.
- "The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1968: Capitalism, Communism, and Containment", in Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World since 1945, edited by Peter L. Hahn and Mary Ann Heiss, pp. 94–120 (The Ohio State University Press 2001). (Excerpted in Dennis Merrill and Thomas Paterson, eds. Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, volume II, 6th edition).