Teaching
I teach several introductory and advanced undergraduate courses. At the introductory level, I teach HIST2110: The US Since 1877, HIST3130: The US and the World, and HIST3105: History and Cinema. At the intermediate and advanced levels, I regularly teach HIST3105: The US Since 1945; and HIST4245: The Vietnam War. Among the classes I regularly teach at the graduate level are The US and the World, Readings in Recent US History, and a Research Seminar in Recent U.S. History. For more on my courses, and to see recent syllabi, you can visit my courses page.
Graduate Study
I currently supervise a number of wonderful graduate students working on a range of projects in Modern U.S. political, diplomatic, and cultural history. Prospective students interested in working with me should contact me via email to discuss specific projects. Prospective doctoral students should also carefully consider other department faculty who might serve on their committees.
Scholarship
My research focuses on the intersections of diplomatic, political, and cultural
history. My first book, Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000 (University of Massachusetts, 2007), examines American policy toward Vietnam since 1975, combining studies of cultural representations from a variety of media, international political economy, and political and diplomatic history. In it, I argue that the United States continued its war against Vietnam after 1975 "by other means:" cultural, political, diplomatic, and economic.
Currently, I'm finishing up my second book, Agent Orange: A History, which moves beyond previous understandings of the topic by combining approaches from military, diplomatic, cultural, and environmental history. You can find out more about this book, also to be published by UMass, on my personal page.
The other major project I'm currently working on is a collection of essays I'm co-editing with my colleague Scott Laderman. The collection is entitled Vietnam and "Vietnam" Since 1975: Transnational Legacies of the Second Indochina War, and will feature interdisciplinary essays by a variety of international scholars. Duke University Press will be publishing the collection in 2013. In addition to these projects, I regularly contribute book reviews and review essays to publications such as Reviews in American History, The Journal of American History, and H-Diplo, the diplomatic history listserv, where I serve as the article review editor for Vietnam War scholarship.
Finally, I have started preliminary work on my next book project, which explores the military, political, and cultural history of napalm. Moving beyond the Vietnam War, this book will examine the use of napalm by the United States in World War Two, Korea, and elsewhere, and its proliferation in other countries’ arsenals as well. It will also examine the many cultural representations of napalm in the post-Vietnam war world.
Publications
Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming, 2012).
Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007).
"Hearts, Minds, and Herbicides: The Politics of the Chemical War in Vietnam," Diplomatic History (accepted for publication; forthcoming, 2012, approx. 25 pages).
"Even We Can't Prevent Forests: The Chemical War in Vietnam and the Illusion of Control," War and Society (accepted for publication; forthcoming, 2012, approx. 27 pages).
“More Dangerous Than Bombs or Bullets: Agent Orange, Dioxin, and the Environmental Imaginary” in New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, Karen Dubinsky et. al., eds. (New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009), 304-312.
“Much More Than My Lai,” Reviews in American History 35, No. 3
(September 2007), 432-439.
“Being Henry Kissinger,” Reviews in American History 36, No. 2 (June 2008), 278-285.
For more on my teaching, research, and service, visit my personal page:
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~emartini/index/Home.html
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