Mitchell Lerner Associate Professor
History
OSU-Newark
305 Mershon Center
614.292.1951
lerner.26@osu.edu
Education
B.A., Brandeis University, American Studies (1989)
M.A., University of Texas, American Studies (1992)
M.A., University of Texas, American Studies (1993)
Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin, History (1998)
Teaching/Research
Dr. Lerner’s research and teaching focus is on modern American diplomatic and political history, with an emphasis on US-Korean relations, as well as general American policy in the 1960s.
Selected Publications
"Carrying All Precincts: Vice President Lyndon Johnson and the Diplomacy of Travel" (Diplomatic History, forthcoming)
"Full Attention and Benefit: Lyndon Johnson and the Racial Legacy of the Texas NYA" (Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2008)
"Diplomacy is Still Not Bankrupt: The Cold War and Korea, 1966-1969," in Between Total War and Small Wars (Hamburg Institute for Social Research, 2008)
"Making Sense of the Hermit Kingdom: North Korea in the Nuclear Age" (Origins, 2008)
"Trying to Find the Guy Who Invited Them: Lyndon Johnson and the 1968 Czech Coup" (Diplomatic History, 2008)
"Biting the Land that Feeds You: The United States and North Korea in the Cold War and Beyond" (Diplomacy and Statecraft, 2007)
Looking Back at LBJ: White House Politics in a New Light (University Press of Kansas, 2005)
The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy (University Press of Kansas, 2002)
Articles about modern American politics and foreign policy in numerous anthologies and journals, including Diplomatic History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Journal of Cold War Studies, and Korean Society Quarterly.
Honors and Awards
Advisory Board Member, North Korean Document Initiative of the Cold War Internal History Project, Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington (2009)
Johnson Foundation Research Grant (2008)
Director, American History Documents, North Korean Document Initiative, Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2008-)
Mary Ball Washington Distinguished Fulbright Chair in American History, University College-Dublin (2005-06)
Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, The Ohio State University (2005)
John Lyman Book Award for the Best Work in U.S. Naval History for The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy (2002)
Kovler Fellowship in Foreign Intelligence, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum (2001)
Mershon Project
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