Nationality United States Name Robert McMahon | Role Historian | |
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Fields International Relations Institutions University of FloridaOhio State University Books The Cold War, Major Problems in the Hist, The limits of empire, Dean Acheson and the cr, The Cold War on the periphery | ||
Robert J. McMahon is an American historian of the foreign relations of the United States and a leading scholar of the Cold War. He currently holds the chair of Ralph D. Mershon Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University.
Career
McMahon received his B.A. from Fairfield University in 1971 and PhD from the University of Connecticut in 1977. He taught at the University of Florida from 1982 to 2005, when he moved to Ohio State University. He has held visiting positions at the University of Virginia and University College Dublin. McMahon holds a joint appointment with the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at OSU.
McMahon served as 2001 president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
References
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