Phillip Dehne Professor of History, St. Joseph s College pdehne@sjcny.edu 245 Clinton Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11205 (718) 940-5865 Ph.D. History, Syracuse University (2000) B.A. History, Lafayette College (1993) Book: On the Far Western Front: Britain s First World War in South America. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2009. Journal articles and book chapters: The Ministry of Blockade and the fate of Free Trade during the First World War Twentieth Century British History, 2016. (Awarded the triennial Bailey Prize in 2017 for the best article written by a member of the New York State Association of European Historians) Profiting despite the Great War: Argentina s grain multinationals, in Andrew Smith, Kevin D. Tennent, and Simon Mollan (eds.), The Impact of the First World War on International Business. London: Routledge, 2016. How important was Latin America to the First World War? Iberoamericana: America Latina - España Portugal 53 (March 2014): 151-166. A bulletproof multinational during the First World War: the failures of Britain's campaign against Bunge & Born in Argentina, in Christof Dejung and Niels P. Petersson (eds.), The Foundations of Worldwide Economic Integration: Powers, Institutions, and Global Markets, 1850-1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Britain s Global War and Argentine Neutrality, in Johan den Hertog and Samuël Kruizinga (eds.), Caught in the Middle: Neutrals, neutrality, and the First World War. Amsterdam: Aksant/Amsterdam University Press, 2011. From Business as Usual to a More Global War: The British Decision to Attack Germans in South America During the First World War, Journal of British Studies 44 (July 2005): 516-535. Conference presentations: Feeding hungry Europe after the First World War: American food, British transportation, German gold. The Struggle for Food: From Malthusian tension to GMO and beyond (19 th -
21 st centuries), 8-10 Mar. 2018, Milan, Italy; and XVIII World Economic History Conference, 29 July-3 Aug. 1919, Boston. Hunger and the specter of creeping Bolshevism during the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. New York State Association of European Historians Annual Conference, 6-7 Oct. 2017, Brooklyn, NY; and Legacy of the Russian Revolution Conference, 16-18 Nov. 2017, Philadelphia. Rebuilding business civilization after the Great War: Dilemmas facing the Supreme Economic Council in Paris 1919. The Business History Conference, 30 Mar.-1 Apr. 2017. Denver, CO. The sudden pivot from economic war to humanitarianism after the First World War. Waging Peace Conference, Dale Center for the Study of War and Society. 8-11 Sept. 2016, New Orleans. The quest to end neutrality: Lord Robert Cecil s plan for perpetual peace. Resistance to War 1914-1924 Conference, 18-20 Mar. 2016. University of Leeds, England. "A Different Level of Diplomacy: Appeals to the British and Global Publics During the Paris Peace Conference". Western Conference of British Studies, 16-17 Oct. 2015. Austin, Texas. The end of springtime in Paris: how the British delegates experienced the last days of the peace conference in 1919. Mid-Atlantic Conference of British Studies, 27-28 Mar. 2015. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Forging League Men at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. The Legacy of World War I Conference, 14-15 Nov. 2014, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia. Building an economic warfare ministry to last: The British Ministry of Blockade and the Department of Overseas Trade. Les mises en guerre de l etat/the state goes to war colloquium. 30 Oct.-2 Nov. 1914. Paris, Laon, and Craonne, France. Profiting despite the Great War: Argentina s Grain Multinationals. Armageddon and Mammon Conference, 10-11 July 1914, London, England. From Antagonists to Allies? Judging Anglo-American relations in Latin America during the Great War. Transatlantic Studies Association Conference, 7-9 July 1914, Ghent, Belgium. "Placing Latin America into Britain's global strategy", América Latina en la Gran Guerra Colloquium, 26-28 June 1914, Mexico City, Mexico. Allies and antagonists: Anglo-American relations in Latin America during the Great War. Mid-Atlantic Conference of British Studies, 5-6 Apr. 1914, Lehman College, New York. Facing off against the British Empire Delegation: Lord Cecil in Paris 1919. Connected Histories of Empire Conference, 15-16 July 1913, University of Bristol, England. Opposing the wrath of the victors: The Supreme Economic Council during the Paris Peace Conference 1919. Western Conference on British Studies, 20-23 Sept. 2012, Las Vegas.
Breaking out of the Majestic: Lord Robert Cecil s cosmopolitan social life during the Paris Peace Conference 1919. Britain and the World Conference, 21-23 June 2012. University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Economic warfare as the basis of peace: The development of Lord Robert Cecil s ideas. Narratives of Peace Conference, 25-26 May 2012. University of Sheffield, England. Mediating between global peace and global power: Lord Cecil at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. British Scholar Annual Conference, 31 Mar.-2 Apr. 2011. University of Texas, Austin. A lender, a consumer, and a producer: The dynamics of fin de siècle British relations with Argentina. Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Conference, 3-6 Mar. 2011. Albuquerque, NM. The forgotten Western Front: The results of Britain s war versus Germany in South America. Fifth Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies, 10-12 September 2009. Imperial War Museum, London. The First World War in South America: Using Globalization as a Weapon. Latin American Studies Association 2009 Congress. 11-14 June 2009. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Britain s Global War and Argentine Neutrality. Conference on the First World War and the End of Neutrality. 6-7 March 2009. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Lord Robert Cecil and the wartime origins of the League of Nations. Southern Conference on British Studies. 9-12 October 2008. New Orleans, Louisiana. The Surprising Resilience of Transnational Networks during the First World War: The Case of Bunge & Born in Argentina. Conference on Power, Institutions, and Global Markets: Mechanisms and Foundations of World-Wide Economic Integration, ca. 1850-1930. 26-28 June 2008. University of Konstanz, Germany. Reshaping the British Identity in South America 1900-1920. The Historical Society s Biannual Conference: Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in History, 5-8 June 2008. Baltimore, Maryland. How Britain redefined neutrality during the First World War. Trade and War: The Neutrality of Commerce in the Inter-State System International Conference, 22-24 August 2007. Helsinki, Finland. Waging total war in the neighborhood: The First World War in neutral Buenos Aires. Social History Society Annual Conference, 7-9 January 2005. Dublin, Ireland. Economic warfare and imperialism: The example of Britain in South America during World War One. Imperial History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, 21 October 2002. London, England.
Competition between Allies: Britain and the United States in South America during the First World War. Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies, 30-31 March 2001. New York City. Opposing Hunnish Ways: British Views on the Germans in South America before the First World War. Western Conference on British Studies, 29-30 October 1999. Tucson, Arizona. Making the Great War Global: The Foreign Trade Department and South America. Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies, 16-17 April 1999. New York City. Anglo-German Economic Warfare in South America 1914-1918. Global Political Economy Research Consortium, 13 April 1999. Maxwell School, Syracuse University. Informal Imperialism and Britain s economic war in Argentina and Brazil during the First World War. Conference on Comparative Imperial and Post-Colonial Historical Studies, 12-14 February 1999. East Lansing, Michigan. Fashioning the Blacklist: Considerations of the British and Argentine Governments during the First World War. Great Lakes History Conference, 2-3 October 1998. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Book reviews: In the American Historical Review, of Stefan Rinke, Latin America and the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). In the Journal of First World War Studies, of Richard Striner, Woodrow Wilson and World War I: A Burden Too Great to Bear, (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). In the Journal of Latin American Studies, of Thomas C. Mills, Post-War Planning on the Periphery: Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy in South America, 1939-1945 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012). In the Journal of British Studies, of T.G. Otte. The Foreign Office Mind, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). In H-Urban, January 2011, of Sheryllyne Haggerty et. al. (eds), The Empire in one city? Liverpool s inconvenient imperial past (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008). In the Journal of Latin American Studies, of Matthew Brown (ed.), Informal Empire in Latin America: Culture, Commerce and Capital (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008). Reviewer for books and articles submitted to: Oxford University Press Bloomsbury Publishing Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura
Colombia Internacional European Journal of International Law References: Professor Emeritus Peter Marsh, Syracuse University and University of Birmingham ptmarsh@powernet.co.uk Professor Michael Miller, University of Miami mbmiller@miami.edu Professor Eric Reed, University of Western Kentucky eric.reed@wku.edu Associate Professor Jana Lipman, Tulane University jlipman@tulane.edu Short biography Phillip Dehne is a Professor of History at St. Joseph s College in New York. He is the author of On the Far Western Front: Britain s First World War in South America (Manchester University Press, 2010), along with various articles related to economic warfare during the First World War. He is currently writing on the role of Lord Robert Cecil, the onetime British Minister of Blockade, at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Long known for his role in Paris as a critical creator of the League of Nations, this new book uses Cecil to refocus attention towards the evolving Allied economic war, finding in this theme some of the conference s surprising successes. At St. Joseph s College, Professor Dehne is the Associate Chair of the History Department, coordinator of the SJC 100 program on the Brooklyn Campus, and chairperson of the Promotion and Awards Committee. He teaches a variety of courses on British, European, and Global History.