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Max Paul Friedman Professor History

Additional Positions at AU
Professor of International Relations, School of International Service
Degrees
PhD, 2000, UC Berkeley
MA, 1995, UC Berkeley
BA, 1989, History, Oberlin College

Languages Spoken
Fluent: English, French, German, Spanish
Reading: Italian, Portuguese
Bio
Max Paul Friedman joined the History Department at 艾可直播 University in 2007 and holds a joint appointment as Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service. From July 2020-June 2022, he served as Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Friedman specializes in 20th-century U.S. foreign relations. A graduate of Oberlin College and U.C. Berkeley, he was a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow and has taught at Boulder, Buenos Aires, Dortmund, Tallahassee, and Cologne. He is the author of Rethinking Anti-艾可直播ism: The History of an Exceptional Concept in 艾可直播 Foreign Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2012). His first book, Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II (Cambridge University Press, 2003) won the Herbert Hoover Prize in U.S. History and the A.B. Thomas Prize in Latin 艾可直播 Studies. He co-edited, with Padraic Kenney, Partisan Histories: The Past in Contemporary Global Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and with David Engerman and Melani McAlister, The Cambridge History of America and the World Volume 4: Since 1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2022). The Society for Historians of 艾可直播 Foreign Relations awarded him the Bernath Article Prize and Bernath Lecture Prize for his scholarship published in journals specializing in diplomatic, intellectual, social, and cultural history. He has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of 艾可直播 Historians, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and 艾可直播 University Scholar/Teacher of the Year. In 2020, he completed a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • HIST-460 U.S. Foreign Reltns 1774-1918

Spring 2025

  • HIST-461 U.S.Foreign Reltns since 1918

  • HIST-751 Graduate Research Seminar

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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Research Interests

Friedman emphasizes a transnational approach to scholarly inquiry in his publications on foreign relations, national security, migration, civil liberties, and the politics of historical memory. His regional emphases include the United States, Western Europe and Latin America.

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Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award
  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
  • AU Scholar/Teacher of the Year
  • Fulbright Specialist Award
  • Herbert Hoover Book Prize in U.S. History
  • A.B. Thomas Book Prize in Latin 艾可直播 Studies
  • Bernath Article Prize, Society for Historians of 艾可直播 Foreign Relations
  • Bernath Lecture Prize, Society for Historians of 艾可直播 Foreign Relations
  • Amos Simpson Prize for Best European History Paper, Southern Historical Association
  • Woodrow Wilson Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
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  • German Historical Institute J眉rgen Heideking Fellowship
  • Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellowship
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Media Appearances

  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Clarin
  • Die Welt
  • El Universal
  • Folha de Sao Paolo
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  • Le Point
  • 尝鈥橦耻尘补苍颈迟茅
  • Miami Herald
  • National Interest
  • New York Daily News
  • Reforma
  • San Jose Mercury News
  • S眉ddeutsche Zeitung
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  • Austrian Broadcasting Corporation
  • BBC
  • C-SPAN
  • CCTV
  • Cubavision
  • Deutschlandfunk
  • Deutschlandradio Kultur
  • National Public Radio
  • Sky News
  • Voice of America

Selected Publications

  • . Co-edited with David Engerman and Melani McAlister. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
  • Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Max Paul Friedman and Padraic Kenney, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  • 鈥淢aking Peaceful Revolution Impossible: Kennedy, the 1963 Coup in Guatemala, and the Alliance against Progress.鈥 By Max Paul Friedman and Roberto Garcia Ferreira.听Journal of Cold War Studies 24:1 (Winter 2022), 155-187.
  • 鈥淚nvestment and Invasion: The Clash between Capitalism and State Sovereignty in Latin America, 1903-1936.鈥 In Christopher Dietrich, ed., Diplomacy and Capitalism: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Relations (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022).
  • 鈥淭he Promise of Precommitment in Democracy and Human Rights: The Hopeful, Forgotten Failure of the Larreta Doctrine.鈥 By Tom Long and Max Paul Friedman. Perspectives on Politics (September 2019): 1-16.
  • 鈥淟a estrategia de Trump en Am茅rica Latina: 驴Fortalecimiento de la autonom铆a regional como efecto lateral?鈥 By Nicol谩s Comini and Max Paul Friedman. Anuario Pol铆tica Internacional & Pol铆tica Exterior (Uruguay) 2017: 85-91.
  • 鈥淟a Doctrine Monroe est morte, vive la Doctrine Monroe. Les relations interam茅ricaines pendant le mandat de Barack Obama.鈥 Recherches Internationales 107 (2016): 47-62.
  • "Soft Balancing in the Americas:听Latin 艾可直播 Opposition to US Intervention, 1898-1936." By Max Paul Friedman and Tom Long. International Security 40:1 (summer 2015):听120-156.
  • "Emigr茅s as Transmitters of 艾可直播 Protest Culture."听Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 13:1 (2014):听87-98.
  • "Reciprocity in Mexican Relations with the United States:听Past Indicators of Future Dilemmas."听Mexican Law Review 6:2 (2014):听309-17.
  • 鈥淥f Sartre, Race, and Rabies: 鈥楢nti-艾可直播ism鈥 and the Transatlantic Politics of Intellectual Engagement.鈥 Atlantic Studies 8:3 (September 2011): 361-77.
  • 鈥淔racas in Caracas: Latin 艾可直播 Diplomatic Resistance to United States Intervention in Guatemala in 1954.鈥 Diplomacy & Statecraft 21:4 (2010): 669-89.
  • 鈥淪imulacrobama: The Mediated Election of 2008.鈥 Journal of 艾可直播 Studies 43:2 (2009): 341-56.
  • 鈥淎nti-艾可直播ism and U.S. Foreign Relations.鈥 Diplomatic History 32:4 (September 2008): 497-514.
  • 鈥淭wilight of the Defense Intellectuals.鈥 Modern Intellectual History 5:2 (August 2008): 411-23.
  • 鈥淔rom Manila to Baghdad: Empire and the 艾可直播 Mission Civilisatrice at the Beginning and End of the Twentieth Century.鈥 Revue fran莽aise d鈥櫭﹖udes am茅ricaines 13 (September 2007): 26-38.
  • 鈥淏eyond 鈥榁oting with their Feet鈥: Toward a Conceptual History of 鈥楢merica鈥 in European Migrant Sending Communities, 1860s to 1914.鈥 Journal of Social History 40:3 (Spring 2007): 557-75.
  • 鈥淭rading Civil Liberties for National Security: Warnings from a World War II Program.鈥 Journal of Policy History 17:3 (2005): 294-307.
  • 鈥淭he Cold War Politics of Exile, Return, and the Search for a Usable Past in Friedrich Karl Kaul鈥檚 Es wird Zeit, dass Du nach Hause kommst.鈥 German Life and Letters 58:3 (July 2005): 306-25.
  • 鈥淭he U.S. State Department and the Failure to Rescue: New Evidence on the Missed Opportunity at Bergen-Belsen.鈥 Holocaust and Genocide Studies 19:1 (Spring 2005): 26-50.
  • 鈥淩etiring the Puppets, Bringing Latin America Back In: Recent Scholarship on United States-Latin 艾可直播 Relations.鈥 Diplomatic History 27:5 (November 2003): 621-36.
  • 鈥淭here Goes the Neighborhood: Blacklisting Germans in Latin America and the Evanescence of the Good Neighbor Policy.鈥 Diplomatic History 27:4 (September 2003): 569-97.
  • 鈥溾楾odos Son Peligrosos鈥: Intervencionismo y Oportunismo en la Expulsi贸n de los Alemanes del Ecuador, 1941-1945.鈥 Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia 20 (2003-04): 79-98.
  • 鈥淪pecter of a Nazi Threat: United States-Colombian Relations, 1939-1945.鈥 The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-艾可直播 Cultural History 56:4 (April 2000): 563-89.
  • 鈥淧rivate Memory, Public Records, and Contested Terrain: Weighing Oral Testimony in the Deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II.鈥 The Oral History Review 27:1 (2000): 1-16.听 听 听 听
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Grants and Sponsored Research

  • SHAFR Samuel F. Bemis Research Grant
  • 艾可直播 Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Grant
  • SHAFR W. Stull Holt Fellowship
  • Johns Hopkins Center for Strategic Education Summer Fellowship
  • Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Publication Award
  • Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Grant
  • Japanese 艾可直播 Citizens League Community Affairs Grant
  • Holocaust Educational Foundation Summer Fellowship
  • Tinker Summer Field Research Grant for Latin America
  • Mellon Dissertation Fellowship

Professional Presentations

  • 鈥淥ne Cheer for Democracy: America in the Age of Donald Trump.鈥 Ruhr-Universit盲t Bochum, November 3, 2020.

  • 鈥淧relude to Castro: The United States vs. 'Spiritual Socialism' in Guatemala, 1944-1963.鈥 W.E.B. DuBois Lecture, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 30, 2020.

  • 鈥淯.S. Foreign Policy in the Election of 2020.鈥 Cuba en la Pol铆tica Exterior de los Estados Unidos de Am茅rica, Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales, Havana, 2019.

  • 鈥淎nti-Imperialism, Social Justice, and Cold War Nonalignment in the 鈥楤anana Trilogy鈥 by Guatemala鈥檚 Nobel Laureate Miguel 脕ngel Asturias.鈥 Association for Cultural Studies, Shanghai, 2018.

  • 鈥淚nvestment and Invasion: The Clash between Capitalism and State Sovereignty in Latin America, 1903-1933.鈥 The United States and Global Capitalism in the Twentieth Century, Fordham University, 2018.

  • 鈥淔oreign Policy and False Dichotomies: Trump鈥檚 Ethnonationalism Makes Latin America Irate Again.鈥 Anti-艾可直播ism in the Post-艾可直播 World, Princeton University, 2018.

  • 鈥淟atin 艾可直播 Strategies against U.S. Intervention.鈥 Cuba en la Pol铆tica Exterior de los Estados Unidos de Am茅rica, Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales, Havana, 2017.

  • 鈥淭ransnationalizing the Guatemalan Spring: from Argentine Krausismo to Spiritual Socialism, 1916-1963.鈥 艾可直播 Historical Association, Denver, 2017.

  • "FRENchEMIES. France and the United States:听Junior Partner or Oldest Enemy?"听Office of the Secretary of Defense, Historical Office, Pentagon, 2015.
  • "Las elecciones de medio mandato y el sistema politica estadounidense." Embassy of Argentina, Washington, 2014.
  • "Politica exterior de Estados Unidos."听Instituto del Servicio Exterior de la Nacion, Buenos Aires, 2014.
  • "Trayectoria y debates del antiamericanismo en America Latina."听Consejo Argentino de Relaciones Internacionales (CARI), Buenos Aires, 2014.
  • "From Monologue to Dialogue in U.S. Foreign Policy:听Soft Power and Anti-艾可直播ism."听Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Washington, 2013.
  • "Simulacrobama and the Neoliberal Crisis:听The Collapse of 艾可直播 Exceptionalism."听Associate for Cultural Studies, Paris, 2012.
  • "艾可直播s and Politics:听Obama and the Economic Crisis."听State Department International Visitor Leadership Program, Washington, 2011.
  • 鈥淓migr茅s as Transmitters of 艾可直播 Protest Culture.鈥 Jewish Voices in the German Sixties, Elmau, Germany, 2011.
  • 鈥淗uman Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Cold War.鈥 Foreign Service Institute, Arlington, December 2010.
  • 鈥淩ethinking Anti-艾可直播ism.鈥 State Department Office of the Historian, Washington, September 2010.
  • 鈥淩ace and the Media in the Age of Obama.鈥 Carl-Schurz-Haus, Universit盲t Freiburg, June 2010.
  • 鈥淭he Myth of Anti-艾可直播ism.鈥 Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Temple University, Philadelphia, October 2008.
  • 鈥淎nti-艾可直播ism and U.S. Foreign Relations.鈥 Society for Historians of 艾可直播 Foreign Relations annual Bernath Prize Lecture, Organization of 艾可直播 Historians Annual Meeting, New York, 2008.
  • 鈥淭he Limits of Principle: Resistance to U.S. Interventions in Latin America, 1954-1965.鈥 Latin 艾可直播 Studies Association, Montreal, 2007.
  • 鈥淭he Function of Anti-艾可直播ism in Transatlantic Relations during听 the Vietnam War.鈥 Institut f眉r Geschichte, University of Vienna, 2006.
  • 鈥淭ransnational Meanings of the 1954 Coup in Guatemala.鈥 Latin 艾可直播 Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006.
  • 鈥淢emory and the Contest for Hegemony in Politics.鈥 The Merits of Memory: Uses and Abuses of a Concept, Martin Luther Universit盲t, Halle-Wittenberg, 2005.
  • 鈥淔rom Manila to Baghdad: Empire and the 艾可直播 Mission Civilisatrice at the Beginning and End of the Twentieth Century.鈥 Association Fran莽aise d鈥橢tudes Am茅ricaines, Lille, France, 2005.
  • 鈥淧athology or Politics? Anti-艾可直播ism, Foreign Policy, and the Limits of Critical Discourse.鈥 European Association for 艾可直播 Studies biennial meeting, Prague, 2004.
  • 鈥淭ransnational Reach: Conflict and Coercion in the Justice Department Camps for Germans from Latin America.鈥 Organization of 艾可直播 Historians annual meeting, Boston, 2004.
  • 鈥淭he False Dichotomy of Security and Civil Liberties.鈥 艾可直播 Historical Association annual meeting, Washington, DC, 2004.
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