William Michael Schmidli

Contact Information:


105 Carnegie Building
Phone: (570) 577-3861

Fall 2013 - Professor Schmidli may be contacted via. email.

 

Email: w.m.schmidli@bucknell.edu

 

Professor Schmidli specializes in United States in the World and Modern Latin America.

 

To read more about Mike Schmidli, please visit http://www.bucknell.edu/x50576.xml

 

Education
PhD Cornell University, 2010
MA Cornell University, 2007
BA Whittier College, 2001

Research Interests
U.S. in the World; Cold War history; Modern Latin America; 20th century Argentina; transnational history; human rights

Publications

"'The Most Sophisticated Intervention We Have Seen':The Carter Administration and the Nicaraguan Crisis, 1978-1979,"  Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol. 23, Issue 1 (2012), 66-86.

"Human Rights and the Cold War: the Campaign to Halt the Argentine Dirty War," Cold War History, [currently available online, forthcoming in print]

"Institutionalizing Human Rights in United States Foreign Policy: U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1976-1980," Diplomatic History,Vol. 35, No. 2 (April 2011), 351-77.

 

Reviews

Review of Tanya Harmer, Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011), H-Diplo Roundtable [forthcoming].

Review of Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, ed., Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Geschichte.Transnational [forthcoming].

Review of Stephen G. Rabe The Killing Zone: The United State Wages Cold War in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Hal Brands, Latin America's Cold War (Harvard University Press, 2010), Reviews in American History 40 (2012) 332-338.

Review of Natasha Zaretsky, "Restraint of Retreat? The Debate over the Panama Canal Treaties and U.S. Nationalism after Vietnam," H-Diplo, July 2011.

Review of Fred Rosen, ed., "Questions of Empire," Empire and Dissent: The United States and Latin America,  (DukeUniversity Press, 2008), H-Diplo, January 2009.

Work in Progress

From Counterinsurgency to Human Rights: The United States, Argentina, and the Cold War [book-length study].