Christopher Dietrich

Christopher Dietrich

Professor of History and Department Chair
Email: [email protected]
Office: Dealy Hall 617
Phone: 718-817-3925

Chris Dietrich is a historian of U.S. foreign relations. He is the author of Oil Revolution, editor of Diplomacy and Capitalism: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Relations and the two-volume Wiley-Blackwell Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations, Colonial Era to the Present, and a co-editor of the Power, Politics, and the World book series at University of Pennsylvania Press. He has received fellowships and awards from the American Historical Association, the National History Center and the Mellon Foundation, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, Yale University, and the University of Texas at Austin. A former Peace Corps volunteer to the Dominican Republic, Dr. Dietrich was also a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Mexico and selected as a Sherman Emerging Scholar by the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He enjoys teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students and regularly teaches courses on the Cold War, Vietnam, and American radicalism. 

  • The University of Texas at Austin, PhD in History, August 2012
    The University of Texas at Austin, MA in History, May 2008
    Grinnell College, BA in History and English, May 2001

  • Professor Dietrich is the author of Oil Revolution, editor of Diplomacy and Capitalism: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Relations and the two-volume Wiley-Blackwell Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations, Colonial Era to the Present, and co-editor of the Power, Politics, and the World book series at University of Pennsylvania Press. He has received fellowships and awards from the American Historical Association, the National History Center and the Mellon Foundation, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, Yale University, and the University of Texas at Austin. 
     
    He has written numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on the history of oil, decolonization, national security, international law, U.S. foreign relations in the Middle East and Latin America, culture and political economy, and infrastructure. His writing has appeared in Diplomatic History, Humanity, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Journal of Global History, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Passport, the Journal of the History of International Law, and The International History Review. He gives lectures regularly at conferences in the United States and abroad. 
  • UNDERGRADUATE
    Understanding Historical Change
    The United States since 1945
    The Vietnam Wars
    The Cold War
    Film, Fiction, and American Power
    20th Century American Radicalism
    U.S. Foreign Relations, 1898 to 2001
    U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776 to 1920
    From Vietnam to Iraq
    The Art of Biography
    Why America Fights
     
    GRADUATE
    Readings in U.S. Foreign Relations
    U.S. Political and Intellectual History since 1877
    The United States and Human Rights

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