Education

Harvard University, Ph.D. in History

    Dissertation:  “‘To Tame the Devil in Hell’:  Kansas in National Politics, 1854-1858”

Harvard University, A.M. in History

Ohio University, M.A. in United States Diplomatic History with a minor in Soviet History

    Thesis:  “‘Those Quiet Advances’:  Johnson’s Soviet Policy, 1963-1969”

Contemporary History Institute (Ohio University), Certificate in Contemporary History

Pomona College, B. A. in International Relations

    Thesis:  “A Domestic Crisis and its Effect on Foreign Policy Initiatives:  The Effect of Watergate on Détente and Rapprochement”