THOMAS J. KNOCK Professor of History & Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor

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1 1 THOMAS J. KNOCK Professor of History & Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Clements Department of History Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas CURRICULUM VITAE Education: Miami University, A. B., 1973 Boston College, M. A. (American Studies), 1975 Princeton University, M. A., 1979 Princeton University, Ph. D., 1982 Professional Experience before coming to SMU: Lecturer in American History, Princeton University, Assistant-in-Instruction, Princeton University, Research Assistant, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Princeton University, Manuscript Librarian, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Honors and Awards: PROSE Award, in Biography & Autobiography, 2017 (American Association of Publishers) Lawrence Perrine Phi Beta Kappa Prize, 2015 Center for Presidential History Writing Fellowship, 2014 Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, "M" Award (University Service Award), 1998 Charles Warren Fellow, Harvard University, Willis Tate Award (presented by SMU Student Senate), 1995 Warren F. Kuehl Book Prize (SHAFR), 1993 University Lecture Series Author's Award, 1993 University Research Grant (SMU), 1994, 1991, and 1988 National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel Grant, 1987 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1986 American Philosophical Society, Research Grant, 1985 Princeton University Fellowship, Concentration: American Foreign Relations Twentieth Century American Political History European Political and Diplomatic History (20th Century) The American Presidency

2 2 Courses Taught at SMU: History 6304, Graduate Seminar, "The United States " Graduate Teaching Practicum History 5340, Senior Seminar, "The Progressive Era and World War I" History 5340, Senior Seminar, "America at War in Asia" History 4300, "The Domestic Roots of Foreign Policy" Junior Seminar History 3399, "American Foreign Policy in the American Century" History 3307, "The United States and Cold War" History 3306, "Colony to Empire: U. S. Foreign Relations, " History 2312, "The United States Since 1877" History 2311, "The United States To 1877" First Year Seminar, "The Vietnam War in Modern Memory" PUBLICATIONS Books: To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (Oxford University Press, 1992; Princeton University Press, paper 1995) -- Awarded the Warren F. Kuehl Prize, 1993, by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; Godby Lecture Series Author's Award, SMU, 1993; nominated by OUP for Bancroft and Pulitzer Prize in History. Jefferson, Lincoln, and Wilson: The Dilemma of Race and Democracy (University of Virginia Press. 2010), co-editor with John Milton Cooper The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century with John Ikenberry, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Tony Smith (Princeton University Press, 2009; paperback edition, 2011) -- The People s Choice: Carnegie Council Top Ten for 2009 The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern (Princeton University Press, 2016) -- Winner 2017 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography given by the Association of American Publishers When Life Strikes the President: Scandal, Death, and Illness in the White House, co-edited with Jeffrey Engel (Oxford University Press, 2017) Work-in- Progress: Come Home, America: The Life and Times of George McGovern (under contract with Princeton University Press)

3 3 Articles and Chapters: One Long Wilderness of Despair: Woodrow Wilson s Stroke and the League of Nations, in When Life Strikes the President: Scandal, Death, and Illness in the White House, edited by Jeffrey A. Engel and Thomas J. Knock (Oxford University Press, 2017) "Wilson's Battle for the League: Progressive Internationalists Confront the Forces of Reaction," in Thomas G. Paterson and Dennis Merrill (eds.), Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, 2 vols (D. C. Heath and Houghton Mifflin, ). Essay appears in both Volumes I and II in the 4 th through 7 th editions, longest running essay in the series. The Legacy of George McGovern, in George McGovern: A Political Life, A Political Legacy (South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2005) A Liberal Democrat Dissents: George McGovern and Mr. Johnson s War, in Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger (eds.), Lyndon B. Johnson and the Search for Peace (Texas A & M Press, 2004) The United States, World War I, and the Paris Peace Settlement, (70-page chapter on the historical literature of the subject, with 626 annotated bibliographical entries), in Robert L. Beisner ed., American Foreign Relations since 1600, A Guide to the Literature (ABC Clio, 2003) "Come Home, America: Story of George McGovern," in Randall Woods, (ed.), Vietnam and the American Political Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2003) "Woodrow Wilson," essay in Alan Brinkley (ed.), The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency (Houghton Mifflin, 2000; rev. edition, 2004) World War I, League of Nations, The Fourteen Points, Treaty of Versailles, and Internationalism --essays in Paul Boyer (ed.), The Oxford Companion to United States History (Oxford University Press, 2001) "Feeding the World and Thwarting the Communists: George McGovern and Food for Peace," in David F. Schmitz and T. Christopher Jespersen (eds.), Architects of the American Century: Individuals and Institutions in 20th Century U. S. Foreign Policymaking (Chicago Imprint Publications, 2000) The Fourteen Points, The Treaty of Versailles, and League of Nations -- essays in John W. Chambers II (ed.), The Oxford Companion to United States Military History (Oxford, 2000

4 4 "The Only Wise Man in the Lot," review essay on Randall Bennett Woods, Fulbright: A Biography, in Diplomatic History (Winter 1998) Charles Evan Hughes and George S. McGovern in Bruce W. Jentleson and Thomas G. Paterson (eds.), Encyclopedia of U. S. Foreign Relations (prepared under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations; Oxford University Press, 1997) The Fourteen Points and The League of Nations essays in Ann Cipriano Venzon (ed.), The United States and the First World War (New York, 1995) "Butterfly McQueen," in Darlene Clark Hine (ed.), Black Women in America, An Historical Encyclopedia (Carlson Publishing Company, New York, 1993) Kennan vs. Wilson," in John Milton Cooper, Jr. and Charles E. Neu (eds.), The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link (Harlan Davidson, 1990) "A Grief That Is Intolerable Constantly To Face," review essay on Robert H. Ferrell's Woodrow Wilson and the First World War, in Reviews in American History (April 1987) "Hollywood As Historian: The Oral History Project at SMU," OAH Newsletter (August 1985) "Woodrow Wilson and Woman Suffrage: A New Look" (with Christine Lunardini), Political Science Quarterly (Winter ) "'History With Lightning': The Forgotten Film Wilson," American Quarterly (Winter ) AQ article reprinted in Peter C. Rollins (ed.), Hollywood As Historian: American Film in Cultural Context (University Press of Kentucky, 1983); and in Leila Zenderland (ed.), Recycling the Past: Popular Uses of American History (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978) Conference Papers and Lectures: OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES McGovern and World War II, a talk and conversation, Book Culture, sponsored by Harper s magazine, New York City, November 29, 2016 George McGovern: Presidential Politics and Foreign Policy, lecture, Texas Tech University, November 3, 2016

5 5 Historians in Chief: How Presidents Interpret the Past to Control the Future, (symposium coordinator and co-organizer, sponsored by Center for Presidential History) at SMU, October 20, 2016 The Election of 1912 and Its Contemporary Significance, panelist and speaker and co-organizer, Workshop for DFW area high school American history teachers, sponsored by Humanities Texas and Center for Presidential History, October 5, 2016 Woodrow Wilson s Fourteen Points for the 20 th Century, paper for Workshop on Fourteen Points for the 21 st Century, Center for Presidential History, at Fort Burguin (Taos), September 22-25, 2016 George McGovern, His Life and Times, lecture, US Treasury Department Executive Program, Washington, DC, June 7, 2016 Exploring the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, lecture sponsored by Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, VA, March 11, 2016 Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights, lecture at Wylie Theater of Dallas Theater Center, February 25, 2016 (in conjunction with production, All the Way ) The Life and Times of George McGovern, lecture, Center for Presidential History, SMU, February 17, 2016 The Roosevelts, World War II, and the Origins of Big Government, discussant, moderator, organizer, Center for Presidential History, SMU, September 2015 When Life Strikes the President: Scandal, Death, and Illness in the White House (Symposium co-organizer and participant, co-sponsored by Center for Presidential History, the Sixth Floor Museum, and the George W. Bush Presidential Library) at SMU, February 2014 One Long Wilderness of Despair : Woodrow Wilson s Stroke and the League of Nations, panel presentation at CPH symposium, When Life Strikes the President: Scandal, Death, and Illness in the White House, February 2014 A Campaign to Remember: 1912 (Symposium Organizer and Panel Chair, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, September 2012) Imperialism and the Spanish American War, Gilder-Lehrman Institute, Becoming America, Workshop for Teachers, Freedom Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 2011

6 6 Panel Chair and Discussant, John Milton Cooper s This Man s Mind and Spirit: A Life of Woodrow Wilson, convention of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Falls Church, Virginia, June 2009 Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism on the World Stage, Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History, Seminar for Teachers, New York University, June 2009 Woodrow Wilson s Internationalism: Then and Now, , Northeast Asia History Foundation symposium, The Significance of 1919 in World History, Seoul, South Korea, March 2009 Woodrow Wilson s Internationalism and his Would-be Heirs, NEH Institute Seminar, Rethinking America in Global Perspective, Library of Congress, July 2008 Neo-Conservatives vs. Liberals: The Fight over Woodrow Wilson s Foreign Policy, Opening Plenary speaker at the Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs Woodrow Wilson in the Nation s Service, Princeton University, April 2006 Lincoln, Jefferson, Wilson and the American Dilemma of Race and Democracy (Symposium organizer and Panel Chair, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, September 2006) Some Observations Concerning Woodrow Wilson s Internationalism, presentation for American Empire: Past and Present, the Fourth International Symposium of RETHINKING OF AMERICAN STUDIES IN JAPAN IN A GLOBAL AGE, in Tokyo, sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Advanced Institute for Law and Politics of Hokkaido University, March Panel Chair and Commentator, A Year of Supreme Possibilities: The American Socialist Party and the Campaign of 1912, for conference, The Campaign That Roared, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia, September 23-24, 2004 The Legacy of George McGovern, Keynote Address for Symposium, George McGovern: A Political Life, A Political Legacy, Dakota Wesleyan University, November 9, 2004 Panel Chair, The United States and International Law in the Early 20 th Century, convention of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, D. C., June 2003

7 7 Playing for a Hundred Years Hence, luncheon address, Woodrow Wilson Birthplace and Museum, Staunton, VA, October 2002 George McGovern and Mr. Johnson s War: A Liberal Democrat Dissents, Conference, Johnson and the Prospects for Peace, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, April 2001 Chair, panel on "Boundaries of Nation, Empire, and Identity: Cultural Perspectives in American Imperialism," convention of Organization of American Historians, Indianapolis, April "The Wilsonian Legacy: Isolationism and Internationalism," conference on "Woodrow Wilson and the New World Orders," sponsored by the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation and the Princeton Class of 1950, Chicago, April 1997 Paper on George McGovern and Food for Peace, National Archives and broadcast on "C-Span," Washington, D. C., April 1997 "Peace and Change: The Roots of McGovernism," American Historical Association convention, New York, January 1997 Chair, Panel on "Lyndon Johnson, Civil Rights, and Foreign Policy," convention of Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations, Boulder, CO, June 1996 "Come Home, America'": A Biography of George McGovern," presentation at the Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, April 1996 "The Origins of George McGovern's Campaign for Progressivism and Peace," International History Workshop, Harvard University, December "The Beginning of the End: George McGovern and the Amendment to End the War," convention of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Maui, Hawaii, August 1995 "George McGovern and Food for Peace," lecture at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., October "Wilsonian Concepts and International Realities at the End of the War," conference on the Paris Peace Conference 1919, University of California, Berkeley, May 1994 Panel Moderator, "The Wilsonian Legacy and the League of Nations," conference, "The League of Nations, Seventy-five Years After," Woodrow Wilson House and the Women's National Democratic Club, Washington, D. C., March 1994.

8 8 "Irony and Fate: Wilson, the League, and the United Nations," paper given at conference, "Wilson and Self-Determination," Woodrow Wilson Birthplace and Museum, Staunton, VA, November 1993 Commentator on paper, "What is Wilsonianism?" conference on "Wilsonianism Resurgent," Bard College, October "Food for Peace: George McGovern and the New Frontier's Endeavor to Preclude 'Inevitable Revolutions," paper given at OAH convention, Chicago, April 1992 "Woodrow Wilson and the New World Order," paper given at Lothian Foundation Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford University, March 1992 "Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Internationalists," paper given at AHA convention, Washington, D. C., December 1991 "John Reed, Max Eastman, and the Education of Woodrow Wilson: A Socialist Perspective on the Veracruz Incident," paper given at convention of Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations, Washington, D. C., June 1991 "Kennan vs. Wilson," paper given at festschrift conference in honor of Arthur S. Link, Princeton University, May 1989 "Woodrow Wilson, the Constitution, and American Foreign Policy," paper at conference, "The Bicentennial of the Constitution," University of Dallas, October 1987 "Wilson vs. Kennan," paper given at convention of Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations, Washington, D. C., August 1984 "Wings of the Phoenix: The Pan-American Pact and the League of Nations," paper given at OAH convention, Los Angeles, April 1984 Miscellaneous Academic and Public History Activities: Broadcast and podcast interviews on McGovern biography: with John E. Miller of the National Review radio program, Riccochet, March 18, 2016; New Books Network podcast, June 14; NPR, interviewed by Sam Sanders on McGovern and Bernie Sanders, May 25; NPR San Diego, June 23 Woodrow Wilson s Legacy (a 15-page commentary for Princeton University Board of Trustees posted on Princeton s Wilson Legacy website, January 2016) Guest Speaker The BBC The World, program on President Obama s Nobel Peace Prize, October 9, 2009

9 9 Playing for a Hundred Years Hence: Woodrow Wilson, Internationalism, and the Current Crisis, Making History, The Stanton Sharp Lecture Series , at SMU October 2006 George McGovern s Legacy in South Dakota Politics, Dedication Weekend, The George and Eleanor McGovern Library, Dakota Wesleyan University, October 2006 Historical Adviser and on-screen commentator for a documentary feature film, One Bright, Shining Moment: George McGovern s Forgotten Summer of 1972, theatrical release Historical consultant and on-screen commentator (on Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson), To the Best of My Ability, eight-part series on the Presidency produced for the History Channel, first broadcast January 2005 Historical consultant and on-screen commentator, Woodrow Wilson, three-hour documentary in The American Experience series, first PBS broadcast, 2002 Academic Advisory Board, George and Eleanor McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service, Dakota Wesleyan University, Board of Trustees, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library (formerly Woodrow Wilson Birthplace and Museum), Staunton, VA, and Historical Consultant, "The Sixth Floor," museum and memorial to John F. Kennedy, Texas Book Depository, Dallas, Texas, and 2001 Editorial Board, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Theodore Roosevelt and America's Rise to World Power: A Centenary Observance (Symposium organizer and author of Museum Exhibit Catalogue, SMU, 1998) Referee for Oxford University Press, Harcourt Brace, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, Louisiana State University Press, D. C. Heath, University of Massachusetts Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of North Carolina Press, Houghton-Mifflin, Syracuse University Press, Worth Publishers, The American Historical Review, American Quarterly, Diplomatic History, The Journal of American History, The Journal of Southern History, International History Review, Political Science Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Virginia Magazine of History, Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, etc.

10 10 Guest Speaker in the Dedman College University Lecture Series and on various Dallas-area radio and television news and public affairs programs, on topics pertaining to American foreign policy and politics, 1985-present, Letter to Editor on Jesse Helms and President Clinton in the New York Times and the Dallas Morning News (December 1994) Departmental and University Service (not an exhaustive listing): Interim Director, Center for Presidential History, SMU, Fall 2015 and Fall 2016 Participant on ten departmental or university search committees, Departmental committee on the Undergraduate Program, ; Faculty Senate, ; ; University Admissions Council, , Faculty Representative, Student Affairs Advisory Council, , Committee on the Calendar, ; Chair, SMU Board of Trustees Committee on Student Affairs, , , , Provost's Search Committee for Dean of Dedman College, Departmental Committee on the Graduate Program, Stanton Sharp Symposium, organizer, 1993, 1998, Director of Graduate Studies, President Turner s Academic Advisory Committee on the George W. Bush Presidential Library, University Graduate Counsel, Selection Committee, Fellows for Center for the Study of the Presidency, Faculty Senate Committee on Faculty Ethics and Tenure, Dean s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure (Division I), SACS , Faculty Concerns and Faculty Practices Work Group Institutions and Cultures Pillars Committee, Acting Chair, Committee on Ethics and Tenure, 2012 Faculty Advisory Committee to the Sixth Floor Museum (planning 50 th anniversary JFK commemoration events)