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Humanities Express
- Publisher: College of Humanities of The Ohio State University
- Volume IIII Issue 7
- July 2008
- Humanities Express Home
Humanities Program Spotlight:
Since its inception in 1967, SHAFR has served as the premier academic society devoted to the history of U.S. diplomacy, foreign relations, national security, and inter-cultural experiences. Ohio State's Department of History has a long legacy of interaction with SHAFR—the 2008 annual meeting was the second SHAFR conference held on the Ohio State campus, and since 2002, the SHAFR business office and the editorial office of Passport, the society's newsletter, have been based here. Further, Ohio State has an outstanding program in U.S. diplomatic history. Over the last half-century, the program has included such distinguished faculty as Foster Rhea Dulles, Alfred Eckes, Marvin Zahniser, Michael Hogan, Peter Hahn, Mitch Lerner, and Robert McMahon. Doctoral graduates of this program have landed academic jobs in universities and colleges across the United States and in foreign policy offices of the U.S. government. Undergraduate courses in the field regularly draw substantial student interest and enrollments.
Professional societies such as SHAFR promote excellence in scholarship and in the training of graduate students and undergraduates. The 2008 program of sessions, plenaries, and keynote lectures was impressive in its breadth and depth of topics including: "Secrecy and Declassification in Foreign Policy Records," "Hijab, Handshakes, and Haram: The Challenges of Conducting Research in the Middle East," "Presidential Power and the War on Terrorism," and "The National Security Challenges Facing America," an address by Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA). In addition to these highlighted sessions, the program offered attendees numerous panels devoted to a variety of chronological and geographical topics.
This annual meeting also served as a book drive for Basra University in Iraq, which has lost much of its library collection. A faculty member there has petitioned for American scholars to donate books on the history of the Cold War and other topics in international history.
The 34th annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Historian Society Conference Hosted on Campus
On June 26-28, the Department of History was pleased to host the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). More than 300 professional historians and graduate students from around the world gathered in the Blackwell Inn and Conference Center for the three-day conference.Since its inception in 1967, SHAFR has served as the premier academic society devoted to the history of U.S. diplomacy, foreign relations, national security, and inter-cultural experiences. Ohio State's Department of History has a long legacy of interaction with SHAFR—the 2008 annual meeting was the second SHAFR conference held on the Ohio State campus, and since 2002, the SHAFR business office and the editorial office of Passport, the society's newsletter, have been based here. Further, Ohio State has an outstanding program in U.S. diplomatic history. Over the last half-century, the program has included such distinguished faculty as Foster Rhea Dulles, Alfred Eckes, Marvin Zahniser, Michael Hogan, Peter Hahn, Mitch Lerner, and Robert McMahon. Doctoral graduates of this program have landed academic jobs in universities and colleges across the United States and in foreign policy offices of the U.S. government. Undergraduate courses in the field regularly draw substantial student interest and enrollments.
Professional societies such as SHAFR promote excellence in scholarship and in the training of graduate students and undergraduates. The 2008 program of sessions, plenaries, and keynote lectures was impressive in its breadth and depth of topics including: "Secrecy and Declassification in Foreign Policy Records," "Hijab, Handshakes, and Haram: The Challenges of Conducting Research in the Middle East," "Presidential Power and the War on Terrorism," and "The National Security Challenges Facing America," an address by Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA). In addition to these highlighted sessions, the program offered attendees numerous panels devoted to a variety of chronological and geographical topics.
This annual meeting also served as a book drive for Basra University in Iraq, which has lost much of its library collection. A faculty member there has petitioned for American scholars to donate books on the history of the Cold War and other topics in international history.
