LYNNE KATHLEEN DUNN

Department of History
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC 29733
(803) 323-4674

Ph.D. in History, Kent State University, 1982
                    Dissertation: The Life and Diplomatic Career of Eleanor Lansing Dulles
                    Director: Dr. Lawrence S. Kaplan    

M.A. in History, Kent State University, 1977
                    Thesis: The United States and the Brussels Pact
                    Director: Dr. Lawrence S. Kaplan

B.A. in History, Mount Union College, 1973

1995-present     Associate Professor of History
                          Winthrop University

1989-1995       Assistant Professor of History
                        Winthrop University

1987-1989       Historian, Contemporary History Branch
                        Naval Historical Center
                        Washington Navy Yard Washington, D.C.                                                                  

1986-1987      Visiting Assistant Professor
                        State University of New York at Fredonia
                        Fredonia, New York                  

1984-1986      Visiting Assistant Professor
                        University of Utah
                        Salt Lake City, Utah

1983-1984      Visiting Assistant Professor
                        The College of Wooster
                        Wooster, Ohio                

1982-1983       Lecturer IV
                        The University of Akron
                        Akron, Ohio

1982                Visiting Instructor
                        Miami University
                        Oxford, Ohio

1977-1982      Teaching Fellow
                       Kent State University
                       Kent, Ohio                          

Monographs:

Warren F. Kuehl and Lynne K. Dunn, Keeping the Covenant-American Internationalists and the League of Nations, 1920-1939 (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997).

Lynne K. Dunn, The Department of Justice, with an introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, Inc., 1989),

Articles and Encyclopedia Entries:

"Eleanor Lansing Dulles" in Dictionary of American Economists (London: Thoemmes Press, 2006).

"Internationalism in the Republican Era" in The Romance of History: Essays in Honor of Lawrence S. Kaplan, edited by Scott Bills and E. Timothy Smith (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997).

"Joining the Boys' Club: The Diplomatic Career of Eleanor Lansing Dulles" in Women and 
American Foreign Policy: Critics, Lobbyists and Insiders, edited by Edward Crapol, 
(Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1987; Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources,
1992).

"The Battle of Won san," "The Hungnam Evacuation," "Admiral Forrest P. Sherman," and "Admiral
C. Turner Joy," in A Historical Dictionary of the Korean War, edited by James I. Matray
(Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1991)

Reviews:

Review of Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975 by Brigid O'Fallell and Joyce Kornbluh in Peace & Change 22 (July 1997) 358-360.

Review of Peace Work: The Citizen's Role in Ending the Cold War by David Cortright in Peace and Change, 19 (October 1994): 446-448.

Review of Growing Up in the WAC: Letters to My Sister, 1944-46, by Blanche Green, for The Journal of Military History, January 1989.

Review of The Mood/Interest Theory of American Foreign Policy, by Jack E. Homes, for Ohio History, Spring 1987.

"From Caring to Combat: Women in the Navy, 1908-1988" present before the Naval Historians Seminar, Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C., March 1989

"A Special Race of Women: The Navy Nurse Corps, 1908-1938," presented at the American Military Institute Conference, Washington Navy Yard, April 1988

"Creating a Showcase: United States-Berlin Policy 1952-1959," presented at the Western Association of Women Historians Conference, Huntington Library, Spring 1986

"Invisible Promotions: Eleanor Lansing Dulles, Austria and Berlin," presented at the SHAFR/PCB-AHA Conference, Stanford University, June 1985

"European Security: The Nuclear Dilemma," presented at the Women's Leadership Conference on National Security, Cleveland, Ohio, October 1983

"The Modernization Debate: The Clash of Symbols," position paper prepared for the Naval War College, contracted through the Lyman Lemnitzer Center for NATO Studies, Kent State University, February 1983.

"The United States and the Brussels Pact," presented at the Ohio Academy of History, Columbus, Ohio, April 1979.

Conferences:

Panelist/Evaluator, national Endowment for the Humanities, Awards in American History, Washington, D.C., Summer, 2006.

General Discussant on all panels, specific commentator for "Potential Scenarios of a Reversal of Roe v. Wade" and "Definitions and Disasters: What Hurricane Katrina Revealed About Women's Rights" at the Oxford Round Table on Women's Rights, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, March 2006.

Commentator for "From Women's Suffrage to Human Rights: Women's Peace Initiatives in the 20th Century", Peace History Society Conference, Winthrop University, November 2005.

Commentator for "Reconceptualizing Women and American Foreign Policy," SHAFR Conference, Annapolis, Maryland, June 1995

Commentator for "Mediterranean Security Issues, 1940-1950," The Southern Historical Association, Fort Worth, Texas, November 1991

Moderator/Commentator for "The Navy as an Instrument of Eisenhower's Foreign Policy," at the
Ike's America Conference, University of Kansas, October 1990

Invited Participant/Commentator for "NATO After 40 Years," at the Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center
for NATO Studies, Kent State University, March 1989

Invited Participant/Commentator for The John Foster Dulles Centennial Conference, Princeton
University, October 1988

Invited Participant/Commentator for "NATO and the Warsaw Pact," at the Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Center for NATO Studies, Kent State University, March 1984

Fields of Specialization:

United States Diplomatic History
Modem European History
American Women's History
Latin American History

American History Survey (Colonial and Modem)
Perspectives on American Culture (interdisciplinary course taught within a Liberal Arts/General
Education curriculum)
Western Cultural Traditions (interdisciplinary course taught within a Liberal Arts/General Education
curriculum)
Western Civilization (Ancient and Modem)
Witches, Warlocks, and Other Evils: The Fear of Conspiracy in America
Recent United States: Post 1939 America
Special Topics Colloquium and Seminar on "The Fifties in America" 
United States Diplomatic History (1760-1900; 1900 to the present) 
The History of Women in America
Major Issues in American History (Historiography)
Latin American History (Colonial and Modern)
The History of Mexico and Central America

Awards:

Winthrop University, Academic Sabbatical, 1997
Winthrop University, Phi Kappa Phi "Most Valuable Mentor" Award, 1995, 1996
Winthrop University, Presidential Citation for Service, 1993
Winthrop University Research Council Grants, Summer 1992, Summer 1990
Winthrop University College of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, Spring 1990
Citation of Commendation, issued by Admiral C. H. Trost, Chief of Naval Operations,
May 1989
Letter of Commendation, issued by Dr. Ronald Spector, Director, Naval Historical
Center, November 1988

Member, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations
            Frequent reviewer for Diplomatic History

Member, Peace History Society
            Member of the Editorial Board for Peace & Change

Member, South Carolina Women in Higher Education

Member, Southern Women's History Association