David Engerman
Degrees
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.Rutgers University, M.A.
Swarthmore College, B.A.
Expertise
International and intellectual history of the Cold War. American and Russian history in the 20th century.Profile
David C. Engerman teaches courses in modern international and intellectual history as well as historiography. His most recent book (forthcoming in 2018) examines American and Soviet aid to India in the Cold War.Awards and Honors
Elected President, Society for HIstorians of American Foreign Relations (2016)
Elected President, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2016)
Elected Vice President, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2015)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2014)
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (2012)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend (2012)
Truman-Kauffman Research Fellowship, Harry S. Truman Library Institute (2012)
Research Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library (2011)
Senior Short-Term Research Grant, American Institute for Indian Studies (2011)
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians - http://lectures.oah.org/lecturers/lecturer.html?id=465 (2010)
Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (2010 - 2013)
Top Young Historian, History News Network (2010)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2006 - 2008)
Named Stuart L. Bernath Lecturer, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2005 - 2007)
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)
Scholarship
Engerman, David. "Review." Rev. of Of Limits and Growth, by Stephen Macekura. H-Diplo Electronic List 2017 (forthcoming)
Engerman, David. "Review." Rev. of Red Globalization, by Oscar Sibony-Sanchez. Journal of Cold War Studies 2016 (forthcoming)
Engerman, David. "Vliianie russkoi kul’tury na amerikanskikh studentov: emigranty iz Rossii i zarozhdenie sovetologii v SShA." Predstavlenie ‘druga’: sovetsko-amerikanskie otnosheniia 20-go veka. Ed. Beate Fieseler, Rosa Magnusdottir and Michael Wala. Moscow: Rosspen, 2016 (forthcoming)
Engerman, David. "Social Science in the Cold War." Isis 101. 2 (2010). (forthcoming)
Engerman, David. "The Great Big Book of American Foreign Relations." Rev. of From Colony to Superpower, by George Herring. Journal of American Studies vol. 44 August: 4-8. (forthcoming)
Engerman, David. "Development Politics and the Cold War (Presidential Address)." Diplomatic History 41. 1 (2017): 1-19.
Engerman, David. "Internationalizing American History: Reports from the Field." The American Historian February 2015: 28-29.
Engerman, David. "Review." Rev. of The Cold War in South Asia, by Paul McGarr. Journal of American Studies vol. 48 August 2014: 894-896.
Engerman, David. "The Pedagogical Purposes of Interdisciplinary Social Science: A View from Area Studies in the United States." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sceinces 51. 1 (2015): 78-92.
Engerman, David. "The Rise and Fall of Central Planning." The Cambridge History of World War II. vol. 3 Ed. Evan Mawdsley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015
Engerman, David. "Golod i revoliutsiia." Kriticheskii slovar' russkoi revoliutsii, 1914-1921 gg.. Ed. E Akton, U.G. Rozenberg, V.Iu. Cherniaev. Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriia, 2014
Engerman, David. "How Nixon and Kissinger Aided Genocide in Bangladesh." Rev. of The Blood Telegram, by Gary Bass. Chronicle of Higher Education vol. 7 October 2013
Engerman, David. "Learning from the East: Soviet Experts and India in the Era of Competitive Coexistence." Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 33. 2 (2013).
Engerman, David. "South Asia and the Cold War." The Cold War in the Third World. Ed. Robert McMahon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013
Engerman, David. "The Fall of Totalitarianism and the Rise of Zbigniew Brzezinski." ZBIG: Academic, Policy-Maker, Critic. Ed. Charles Gati., 2013
Engerman, David. "The Rise and Fall of Wartime Social Science: Harvard’s Refugee Interview Project, 1950-54." Cold War Social Science. Ed. Hamilton Cravens and Mark Solovey. New York: Palgrave, 2013
Engerman, David. "Book Review." Rev. of All This Is Our World, by Anne Gorsuch. Business History Review vol. 86 Fall 2012
Engerman, David. "Book Review." Rev. of Entangled Geographies, by Gabrielle Hecht, ed.. Technology and Culture 2012
Engerman, David. "Histories of the Future and the Futures of History." American Historical Review 117. 5 (2012): 1402-1410.
Engerman, David. "Solidarity, Development, and Non-Alignment: Foreign Economic Advisors and Indian Planning in the 1950s and 1960s." Practices of International Solidarity and International Development. Ed. Berhold Unfried. Vienna: ITH, 2012
Engerman, David. "Studying Our Nearest Oriental Neighbor: American Scholars and Late Imperial RUssia." The Russian Experience. Ed. Choi Chatterjee and Beth Holmgren. New York: Routledge, 2012
Engerman, David. "Sviluppo e Guerra fredda." Contemporanea 15. 1 (2012): 129-137.
Engerman, David. "The Political Power of Economic Ideas?." India in the World, 1947-1991. Ed. Andreas Hilger and Corinna Unger. Bern: Peter Lang, 2012
Engerman, David. "Book Review." Rev. of The Other Cold War, by Heonik Kwan. American Historical Review vol. 117 December 2011: 1453.
Engerman, David. "California's Cold War Museum." Humanities May/June 2011: 24-29.
Engerman, David. "Die Ursprünge der amerikanische Sowjetologie im Zweiten Weltkrieg." Macht und Wissen im Kalten Krieg. Ed. Bernd Greiner, et al.. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2011
Engerman, David. "Forum Introduction." Rev. of The Right Kind of Revolution, by Michael Latham. H-Diplo October 2011
Engerman, David. "The Anti-Politics of Inequality." Journal of Global History 6. 1 (2011): 143-151.
Engerman, David. "The Kennan Industry's Next Phase." The Chronicle of Higher Education Review November 21, 2011: 1-3.
Engerman, David. "The Second World's Third World." Kritika 12. 1 (2011): 183-211.
Engerman, David, www.insidehighered.com. Know Your Enemy: Q&A. <http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/08/engerman>.
Engerman, David, www.slon.ru. Prichina interesa amerikantsev k Rossii: ne Putin i ne Pushkin, a Pelevin. <http://www.slon.ru/articles/323913/>.
Engerman, David. "Die USA und die Oekonomie des Kaltes Kriegs." Oekonomie im Kalten Krieg. Ed. Bernd Greiner, et al.. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2010. 194-212.
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., 2010
Engerman, David. "Knowing Your Enemy Helps Win Wars." Mishpacha (Jerusalem) 18 August 2010
Engerman, David. "Paternalismo, efficienza, e profitto: ideologia e utopia nel progetto amazzonico di Henry Ford." Rev. of Fordlandia, by Gregory Grandin. Il Mestiere di Storico vol. 2 7-11: 2010.
Engerman, David. "Reproducing Power." Rev. of Fatal Misconception, by Connelly, Matthew. History and Technology vol. 26 61-67.
Engerman, David. "The Price of Success: Economic Development, Sovietology, and the Costs of Interdisciplinarity." History of Political Economy 42. (2010): 234-260.
Engerman, David and Corinna Unger. "Towards a Global History of Modernization." Diplomatic History 33. 3 (2009): 375-385.
Engerman, David and Corinna Unger, ed. Modernization as a Global Project. Diplomatic History, 33 2009.
Engerman, David, Knowing the Enemy. The Minerva Project. 1/23/2009. Social Science Research Council. <http://www.ssrc.org/essays/minerva/>.
Engerman, David. "Jihadology: How the Creation of Sovietology Should Guide the Study of Today’s Threats." Foreign Affairs (online) (2009): <http://www.foreignaffairs.com/node/65670>.
Engerman, David. "The Cold War." Blackwell Companion to Russian and Soviet History. Ed. Gleason, Abbott., 2009
Engerman, David. "The Cold War’s Organization Man." Humanities September-October 2009: 22-25+.
Engerman, David. "Why We Need to Make Sure We Know Our Enemies." History News Network (2009): <http://hnn.us/articles/120340.html>.
Engerman, David. Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts. Oxford: Oxford UP, 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