Coffee will be served at 3:30pm. The event will start at 4:00pm.
Speaker
Jason C. Parker is a Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He specializes in the history of US-“Third World” relations, studying both the formal and informal “diplomacy” embedded in the interactions of empires, nations, and peoples. His research examines the ways in which state- and non-state actors in the United States engaged with their counterparts abroad within a complicated matrix of strategy, security, decolonization, and race during the long “American Century.” His first book, Brother’s Keeper: The United States, Race, and Empire in the British Caribbean, 1937-1962 (Oxford, 2008), looked at the actions of US-based actors- the American government, African Americans, and Caribbean immigrants– in the push for independence in the British West Indies. His second book, Hearts, Minds, Voices: U.S. Cold War Public Diplomacy and the Formation of the Third World (Oxford, 2016), examined U.S. efforts at "winning hearts and minds" in the global-South during the first half of the Cold War.
Parker received Ph.D. in History from the University of Florida. He was awarded a B.A. in English and a M.S. in History from Vanderbilt University.
About the International History Seminar
If you are interested in attending this semester’s events and joining the International History Seminar, please send an email confirming your interest to the Hayes Chair Graduate Research Associate, Ian Gammon, at hayeschairgra@osu.edu, and you will be included on the mailing list going forward. Materials will only be pre-circulated to people on the mailing list.