Lloyd E. Ambrosius

U.S. Foreign Relations, U.S. Presidency

Education Ph.D. 1967, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Research and Teaching Fields International History; American Foreign Relations; American Presidency

My major research project is the international history of United States-German relations after World War I.

Publications

Monographs Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations (New York: Palgrave, 2002)

Wilsonian Statecraft: Theory and Practice of Liberal Internationalism during World War I (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1991) [cloth and paperback editions]

Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987) [paperback edition in 1990]

Edited Books Writing Biography: Historians and Their Craft (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004)

A Crisis of Republicanism: American Politics in the Civil War Era (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990)

Articles and Chapters "National Self-Determination in German-American Relations from the First to the Second World War: From Woodrow Wilson to Adolf Hitler," Deutschland und die USA in der internation alen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, eds. Manfred Berg and Philipp Gassert (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004)

"Wilsonian Diplomacy and Armenia: The Limits of Power and Ideology," America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915, ed. Jay M. Winter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

"Woodrow Wilson and World War I," A Companion to American Foreign Relations, ed. Robert D. Schulzinger (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003)

"Collective Security," The Oxford Companion to American Military History, ed. John Whiteclay Chambers II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 155-57

"World War I (1914-1918): Postwar Impact of World War I," The Oxford Companion to American Military History, ed. John Whiteclay Chambers II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 816-17

"Wilson, Woodrow," American National Biography, eds. John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 23:604-12

"Wilson, Edith Bolling," American National Biography, eds. John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 23:562-63

"Hitchcock, Gilbert M.," American National Biography, eds. John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 10:871-72

Significant grants, fellowships, and guest professorships

• Fulbright Research/Teaching Professor, 1996, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• German Marshall Fund of the United States, Guest Lectureship in Germany, May 1990
• Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History, 1977-1978, University College, Dublin, Ireland
• Fulbright Research Professor, 1972-1973, University of Cologne, Germany

Editorial board memberships and other notable professional service

• Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHAFR): Council 2002-2005
• Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations: Council 1993-1995
• Editorial Board, Diplomatic History, 1991-1993
• SHAFR: Nominations Committee, 1989-1991 (chair, 1991)
• SHAFR: Norman and Laura Graebner Prize Committee, 1986-1992, 1999-present (chair, 1988-1990, 2000-present)
• SHAFR: Program Committee, 1980-1983 (chair, 1981-1982)
• Fulbright Pre-screening Committee for Germany: Review of faculty applications for Fulbright Research and/or Teaching Awards in Germany, 1996, 1997
• Cambridge University Press: Editorial Board, Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, 1990-1995
• Former chair of the Department of History, 1990-1991 (acting), 1993-1997