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Telephone: (617) 552-8459 Office Location: 21 Campanella Way, 457 Email: seth.jacobs.2@bc.edu Curriculum Vitae: please click here |
Education
PhD, Northwestern University, 2000
Fields of Interest
Twentieth-century United States; U.S. foreign policy; U.S.-Asian relations.
Academic Profile
Professor Jacobs joined the faculty in the fall of 2001. He is a political and cultural historian of the United States in the twentieth century, especially the period since World War II, and his research interests focus on the connection between U.S. domestic culture and foreign policy. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in American military and diplomatic history, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and America in the 1950s. In 2002, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) honored him with its Stuart Bernath Prize for the best article published in the field of diplomatic history. He won SHAFR's Bernath Book Prize in 2006.
Representative Publications
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The Universe Unraveling: United States Policy toward Laos, 1954-1962 (Cornell University Press, forthcoming)
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"'No Place to Fight a War': Laos and the Evolution of U.S. Policy toward Vietnam, 1954-1963" in Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives, Mark Philip Bradley and Marilyn B. Young, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2007)
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Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
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America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957 (Duke University Press, 2004)
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"’Our System Demands the Supreme Being': America's Religious Revival and the 'Diem Experiment,' 1954-1955" Diplomatic History, Volume 25, Number 2, Fall 2001