George Fujii:: Curriculum Vitae (CV)
E-mail: gfujii@umail [ucsb.edu].
Address: Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410
Curriculum Vitae
Contents: Education | Awards and Honors | Research Interests | Courses | Academic Service
Professional Affiliations | Conference Presentations
Education:
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA (UCSB)
PhD in the Department of History, expected in 2008
M.A., History, June 2005
Advisor: Salim Yaqub
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES (UCLA)
B.A., History with departmental highest honors, June 2002
Thesis: The British Role in the Marshall Plan (Advisor: Jessica Wang)
B.A., English, June 2002
Minor in German, June 2002
Honors: College Honors, cum laude, Provost's List (Fall 2000, Spring 2001)
Awards and Honors:
- UCSB History Associates, DeConde-Burns Prize
- Doctoral Scholars Fellowship, UCSB Graduate Division, 2002-2003 and 2007-2008
- UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), Dissertation Fellow
- 2nd place, Carey McWilliams (Thesis) Award, UCLA Department of History, June 2002
- Wasserman Scholar, UCLA College of Letters & Science, 2001-2002
- Irving and Jean Stone Honors Programs Research Stipend, UCLA College of Letters & Science, 2001
Research Interests:
- Post-Second World War/early Cold War economic and financial reconstruction policy, in particular the Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program) and its antecedents in light of the North Atlantic Triangle (US, UK, and Canada). I am especially interested in the linkages between the domestic and international aspects of these policies.
- US-European foreign relations/diplomatic history (post-1945), in particular Britain, France, and Germany.
- Cold War history, especially cultural and international aspects.
- Formation of the European Union, Marshall Plan, and the Truman Doctrine.
Courses:
Instructor/Teaching Associate for History 171D, The United States and The World Since 1945, Summer 2007
Visiting GTA (graduate teaching assistant) for HY (International History) 206, The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1975, Winter (Lent Term) 2006
Dr. Steven Casey
TA (teaching assistant) for History 4C, Western Civilization from 1715 to the present, Fall 2003
Professor Kenneth J. Mouré
TA for History 4B, Western Civilization, 1050-1715, Winter 2004
Professor J. Sears McGee
TA for History 4C, Western Civilization, 1715 to the present, Spring 2004
Professor Erika Rappaport
TA for History 4B, Western Civilization, 1050-1715, Winter 2005
Professor Carol Lansing
Academic Service:
-Article reviews editor and Web editor (formerly also a list editor) for the H-Diplo discussion list, part of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online (June 2003 to present)- (My H-Net profile)
Duties: As article discussion/reviews editor, solicit scholarly reviews of and facilitate discussion of recent articles in journals such as Diplomatic History (DH) and The Journal of Cold War Studies (JCWS). (Prior article reviews and commentaries may be viewed at this page). As Web editor, responsible for design and maintenance of the H-Diplo web site.
-President, UCSB History Graduate Students Association (October 2002 to June 2003)
-History department representative (one of three) to the Graduate Students Association (GSA) (October 2002 to June 2004)
-Graduate student representative (one of two) to the UCSB Student Fee Advisory Committee (November 2002 to June 2003)
-Graduate representative (one of two) to the UCSB Arts & Lectures Advisory Committee (May 2003 to Spring 2006)
-Graduate representative to the UCSB Library Building Committee (June 2003 to Spring 2006)
Conference Presentations and Seminars (selected):
Participant in the 2007 Project CONNECT Summer Seminar, held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in July 2007.
Project CONNECT is a joint program between the Canadian Studies Program, University of Vermont and the Center for the Study of Canada, Plattsburgh State University of New York, which seeks to promote Canadian Studies in the United States.
Project CONNECT Web site
"Building a 'Marshall Plan Ideology': Redefining Liberalism on the Eve of the Cold War"
formation/transformation, McGill-Queen's Graduate Student Conference in History (11-13 March 2004),
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Conference Web site
“Marshall Plan or ‘Wallace Plan?’ The Selling of Alternate Visions for Postwar American Prosperity”
the Second Annual GWU-UCSB Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War (30 April-1 May 2004)
The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Conference Web site
"The Committee for the Marshall Plan and Postwar American Liberalism,"
(in Panel 29: U.S.-European Foreign Relations during the Cold War)
Borderlands, Frontiers, Peace, and War, The Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) (24-27 June 2004)
the University of Texas, Austin and the Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) Presidential Library, Austin, Texas.
Conference Web site
"Sovereign or still Colonials? Nationalism and the 1946 Canadian loan to Britain"
History in the Making X: Nations, Nationalism, and National Identity (5 March 2005)
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Conference Web site
"'Bretton Woods is No Mystery?': Translating Complex International Financial Policy to Domestic Audiences"
(in Panel 16: Partners and Competitors: The Politics of Economic and Monetary Power in the Western Alliance, 1944-1974)
The 2006 Society for Historians of American Foriegn Relations (SHAFR) Conference (23-25 June 2007)
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Conference Web site
Professional Affiliations:
- UCSB Center for Cold War Studies (CCWS), formerly the Cold War International History Group (COWHIG)
- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
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The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS)
References:
available upon request
Last updated 30 July 2007
