Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of History

History
History of Ideas
International and Global Studies

Expertise

History of American foreign policy. American Intellectual and cultural history. International history and American history in transnational contexts.

Profile

David Engerman teaches courses in modern American diplomatic and intellectual history as well as historiography. His research focuses on Russia in American life, including politics, culture, and foreign policy.

Awards and Honors

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2006)

Named Stuart L. Bernath Lecturer, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2005)

Outstanding Academic Title for 2004, Choice Magazine (2005)

Akira Iriye International History Book Award (2004)

Research Grant, Rockefeller Archive Center (2004)

Scholarly Fellowship, Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History (2004)

Short-Term Research Scholarship, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (2004)

Stuart Bernath Book Prize, Soviety for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2004)

Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (2003 - 2004)

Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (declined) (2003 - 2004)

Charles Warren Center Fellowship, Harvard University (2000 - 2001)

Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University (2000 - 2007)

Olin Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined) (1999 - 2001)

Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship, Mellon Foundation (1997 - 1998)

John L. Simpson Fellowship in Comparative Studies, Institute for International Studies (1997 - 1998)

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, Berkeley Graduate Division (1997)

Winant Fellow, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library (1995)

Packard Fellow, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library (1994)

Courses Taught

HIST	109b	College 101
HIST	164a	Recent American History since 1945
HIST	164b	The American Century: The U.S. and the World, 1945 to the Present
HIST	169a	Thought and Culture in Modern America
HIST	186b	A Global History of the Vietnam Wars
HIST	200b	Colloquium in American History
HIST	202a	History of the Present
HIST	202b	Modern American History from a Global Perspective
HIST	203a	American Historians and American Identity

Scholarship

Engerman, David and Corinna Unger. "Towards a Global History of Modernization." Diplomatic History 33. 3 (2009): 375-385. (forthcoming)

Engerman, David. "Ideology and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962." Cambridge History of the Cold War. Ed. Melvyl Leffler and Odd Arne Westad., 2009 (forthcoming)

Engerman, David, Knowing the Enemy. The Minerva Project. 1/23/2009. Social Science Research Council. <http://www.ssrc.org/essays/minerva/>.

Engerman, David. "The Cold War." Blackwell Companion to Russian and Soviet History. Ed. Gleason, Abbott., 2009

Engerman, David and Corinna Unger. "Modernization as a Global Project." German Historical Institute Bulletin 43. Fall (2008): 129-134.

Engerman, David. "George F. Kennan the Scholar." Reflections on Geroge F. Kennan. Ed. Ruble, Blair. Washington DC: Kennan Institute, 2008

Engerman, David. "American Knowledge and Global Power." Diplomatic History (2007).

Engerman, David. "Modernizatsiia 's togo berega': amerikanski experty i pervaia sovetskaia piatiletka." Rossiia i mir glazami drug druga: iz istorii vzaimovospriatiia. vol. 4 Ed. AB Golubev. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2007

Engerman, David. "Modernizatsiia `s togo berega¿: amerikanskie eksperty i pervaia sovetskaia piatiletka." Rossiia i mir glazami drug druga: iz istorii vzaimovospriatiia. vol. 4 Ed. Golubev, A.B.. Moscow: RAN, 2007

Engerman, David. "Autore, autorevolezza, e autoritarismo: Lo Staline di Souvarine nel mondo anglofono." Contemporanea (2006).

Engerman, David. "How Harvard Ruled Russia." Kritika (2006).

Engerman, David. "John Dewey and the Soviet Union: When Pragmatism Meets Revolution." Modern Intellectual History (2006).

Engerman,David. "A Conservative's Conservative (on George Kennan)." Chicago Tribune (2006).

Engerman,David. "Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and the Rise of Russian Studies." The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II. Ed. Hollinger, David. John Hopkins UP, 2006

Engerman,David. "To Moscow and Back: American Social Scientists and the Problem of Convergence." American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Lichtenstein. U of Pennsylvania Press, 2006

Engerman,David. Knowing the Cold War Enemy. Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports, 2006.

Engerman,David. "Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Rise of Russian Studies in the United States." Cahiers du Monde Russe (2004).

Engerman,David, co-editor and contributor. Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War. UMass Press, 2003.

Engerman,David. Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development. Harvard University Press, 2003.

Engerman,David. "Foreword." New edition of Richard H. Crossmans The God That Failed (orig. pub. 1950). New York: Columbia University Press, 2001