Richard Damms 20th Century U.S. Diplomacy Latin America Department of History Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS 39762 Phone: 662-325-3604 E-mail: rdamms@history.msstate.edu Education Academic Career Research in Progress Publications Service Courses Taught

Richard V. Damms is currently an Associate Professor of American history and a member of the department's International Security/Internal Safety (IS/IS) faculty. Longman published his book, The Eisenhower Presidency, 1953-1961 in 2002 as part of their Seminar Studies in History Series. He has published two articles on science and national security in the Eisenhower era, and recently published "In Search of some big, imaginative plan : the Eisenhower Administration and American Strategy in the Middle East after Suez,  in Simon C. Smith, ed., Reassessing Suez 1956 (Ashgate, 2008). He has recently presented papers at international conferences in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Damms has directed three Ph.D. dissertations in diplomatic history. Fred Smith's 2002 M.A. thesis, which he supervised, won the Mississippi Historical Society's Glover Moore Prize for best Master's thesis. Damms has developed and taught a study-abroad class, "Churchill's Britain," at King's College, London. He compiled and co-edited the History Department's reader for undergraduate students, Readings in U.S. History (Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2005). Damms is actively involved in efforts to enhance the quality of history instruction in the public schools. He is editor-in-chief of Mississippi History Now: the Online Journal of the Mississippi Historical Society, directed the Center for Historical Studies in 2003-6, established under the History Department's million-dollar Teaching American History Grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and serves on Mississippi Department of Education and IHL committees. He welcomes the opportunity to supervise graduate theses and dissertations in diplomatic history, political history, and national security affairs broadly defined.

Education: Ph.D.: Ohio State University, 1993 Academic Career: Associate Professor, Mississippi State University 2003-, Director of the Center for Historical Studies, established under the History Department's million-dollar Teaching American History Grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Research in Progress: He is working on a book-length manuscript about Eisenhower's science advisers and national security policy. Publications: The Eisenhower Presidency, 1953-1961, 2002; Seminar Studies in History Series. "Containing the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex: President Eisenhower's Science Advisers and the Case of the Nuclear-Powered Aircraft," Essays in Economic and Business History "James Killian, the Technological Capabilities Panel, and the Emergence of President Eisenhower's ˇ®Scientific-Technological Elite,'" Diplomatic History. Readings in U.S. History (Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2003) "In Search of 'some big, imaginative plan': the Eisenhower Administration and American Strategy in the Middle East after Suez,  in Simon C. Smith, ed., Reassessing Suez 1956 (Ashgate, 2008) Service: Editor-in-chief, Mississippi History Now: Online Journal of the Mississippi Historical Society. Member, Mississippi Department of Education U.S. History Curriculum Revision Committee and IHL College Readiness Task Force on History Courses Taught: U.S. Diplomatic History, United States and Latin America, U.S. History 1917-1945, and Historiography and Historical Methods.