Robert Buzzanco
Professor (United States, Diplomatic)
561 Agnes Arnold Hall
(713) 743-3093
buzz@uh.edu

Dr. Buzzanco is a scholar of 20th Century U.S. History and Diplomatic History. He is also one of the nation’s leading authorities on the Vietnam War and the dynamics that encompassed this time period. Buzzanco received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Buzzanco has lectured at national conferences on the topics of the second Gulf War, globalization and The Industrial Military Complex and has served as the Chair of the Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize Committee. Dr. Buzzanco has also contributed to national newspapers and magazines such as the Baltimore Sun, Houston Chronicle and Newsday magazine. He has been interviewed or cited by various international media such as the BBC, NPR, Financial times, Al-Jazeerra and the Islamic News Network.

Teaching:
Dr. Buzzanco has taught a variety of courses in U.S. history, including, at the undergraduate level, both halves of the survey, the history of the Vietnam War, America in the 1960s, and U.S. foreign policy, as well as a new course in 2004 titled "War, Globalization and Terror." He has also taught graduate courses on the Vietnam War, post-1945 U.S. History, and U.S. foreign relations ("Empire, War, and Diplomacy"), as well as numerous research seminars and the departmental course on professional development. Buzzanco has been the advisor on many dissertation thesis committees.

Research:
Buzzanco is the author or editor three books and he has written more than twenty articles that have appeared in scholarly publications and major newspapers. He is currently working on a manuscript on culture and politics for Oxford’s VSI series and is continuing work on the political economy of the 1960s and the impact of the Vietnam War on the U.S. economy.

Selected Publications:
Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era. Cambridge University Press, 1996 [Paperback, 1997]. Recipient of Stuart L. Bernath Prize, awarded by Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. Chapter on Tet Offensive excerpted in Robert McMahon, ed, Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War, 3d edition.

Co-editor, with Marilyn Young. A Companion to the Vietnam War. A collection of essays on Vietnam in the "Blackwell Companion Series.” (Blackwell Publishers, 2002).

The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam during the Johnson Years," in Young and Buzzanco, A Companion to the Vietnam War, (Blackwell Publishers, 2002).

Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life (Blackwell Publishers, "Problems in American History" Series, 1999).

"Anti-Imperialism." Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations, 2002

"How Did Iraq and the United States Become Enemies," History News Network, 28 October 2002.

"The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1968: Capitalism, Communism, and Containment," in Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World since 1945, edited by Peter L. Hahn and Mary Ann Heiss, pp. 94-120. The Ohio State University Press 2001. Excerpted in Dennis Merrill and Thomas Paterson, eds. Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, volume II, 6th edition.

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