Peter Hahn

Professor
History
305 Mershon Center
614.292.1951
hahn.29@osu.edu

Education
B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University, History (1982)
M.A., Vanderbilt University, History (1984)
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, History (1987)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Hahn specializes in United States diplomatic history in the Middle East since 1940.

Selected Publications
"The Formulation of U.S. Policy during the Suez Crisis: The White House, the State Department, the Pentagon, and the Central Intelligence Agency," in The West and the Suez Crisis, ed. by Philippe Vial (University of Sorbonne Press, forthcoming)

"Terrorism," in Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, ed. by Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier (Palgrave, 2008)

Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Middle East Relations (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)

"The Cold War and the Six Day War: U.S. Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Crisis of June 1967," in The Cold War in the Middle East: Regional Conflict and the Superpowers, 1967-1973, ed. by Nigel John Ashton (Routledge, 2007)

Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (Potomac Books, 2005)

Caught in the Middle East: U.S. Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-1961 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004)

Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World Since 1945, co-edited with Mary Ann Heiss (Ohio State University Press, 2001)

The United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945-1956: Strategy and Diplomacy in the Early Cold War (University of North Carolina Press, 1991)

Honors, Awards, and Service
Chair, Department of History, The Ohio State University (2006-)

Executive Director, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2002-)

Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (1998)

Research grants from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, National Endowment for the Humanities, Truman Library Institute, John F. Kennedy Library, Lyndon Johnson Foundation, Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, Office of United States Air Force History, and U.S. Army Center of Military History.

Mershon Project
The United States and Public Diplomacy: Toward an International History (2007)
Passport: Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2003-)

Peter Hahn
Professor of History
The Ohio State University