I teach in the areas of the United States and the World, including American diplomatic history and selected topics on modern European and Asian history. Before earning my Ph.D. at Bowling Green State University, I completed prior post-graduate studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford.
I am formerly a staff member for the Committee on House Administration at the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., and a research assistant for a British Member of Parliament and junior minister (PPS) in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Near East Affairs Division. Before that , I also worked as a management consultant based in Beijing.
I am currently revising a book manuscript tentatively entitled Richard Nixon and Europe: Confrontation and Cooperation, 1969-1974, which examines key elements in relations between the United States and its traditional postwar European allies, including Great Britain, France, and Germany. This multi-lingual research was based on government archival records in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The manuscript also benefits from 200 pages of original transcription work from the Nixon tapes. My work on these secret recordings of the Nixon administration, as well as my commentary on the Vietnam era and U.S. foreign policy has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC Radio 4, Associated Press Radio/TV, and hundreds of other places. This work is based on my private collection of the Nixon tapes, which is the most complete digitized collection in the world. I offer the public free access to my Nixon tape collection at my website, http://www.nixontapes.org.
In my spare time, I am a baseball fan, and I enjoy visiting new places, whether nearby or distant. Finally, I also take part in mountaineering expeditions when time permits, including an advanced base camp trek to the north face of Mount Everest, as well as summits of smaller peaks such as Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Rainier.