Michael E. Chapman

teaching fellow

Michael E. Chapman completed his PhD in the history of U.S. foreign relations at Boston College in 2006; his dissertation, “Arguing Americanism: John Eoghan Kelly’s Franco Lobby, 1936–43,” is in prepublication review.  In 2006, he published “Pro-Franco Anti-communism: Ellery Sedgwick and the Atlantic Monthly” in the Journal of Contemporary History, and an edited derivative work, Lessons of the War in Spain by Gen. Maurice Duval.  Mike instructs courses in the Boston area on the Vietnam War, Spanish Civil War, history of terrorism, the Atlantic world, and globalization, and for 2007–8 is a BC postdoctoral fellow.  He is currently writing Forrest, a biography of a leading Irish-American nationalist, anarchist philosopher, and pioneer of high-voltage A/C power transmission.