Dr. Kathryn Statler Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999 Research specialties:   Franco-American Relations; Alliance politics; Vietnam Wars; U.S. Foreign Relations Teaching specialties: U.S Foreign Relations; Vietnam Wars; Armed Conflict and American Society; Diplomatic Decision-making (graduate course for Peace and Justice Studies); History of France; Historian's Methods

Office:   Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (KIPJ) 271
Hours, Spring 2009: Tues/Thurs 12:00-2:30
Phone:   (619) 260-4652
Email:   kstatler@sandiego.edu
Webpage:   http://www.sandiego.edu/~kstatler

Selected publications

• Lafayette's Ghost: A History of Franco-American Cultural Diplomacy (book manuscript in preparation)
• Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam, (University Press of Kentucky, 2007).
• "After Geneva: The French Presence in Vietnam," in The First Indochina War , eds. Fredrik Logevall and Mark Lawrence (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007).
• The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War, 1953-1961, co-edited with Andrew Johns (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).
• "Building a Colony: The Eisenhower Administration and South Vietnam, 1953-1961," in The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War, 1953-1961 , co-edited with Andrew Johns (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).
• "Alliance Politics after Stalin's Death: Franco-American Conflict in Europe and in Asia, 1953-1954," in An Early End to the Cold War? The East West Conflict in the Aftermath of Stalin's Death , eds. Klaus Larres and Kenneth Osgood (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006).
• "Cao Dai," "J. Lawton Collins," "Collins Mission," "Paul Ely," "French Colonialism," "Navarre Plan," "United Action," in East Asia and the United States: An Encyclopedia of Relations Since 1784, ed. James Matray (Greenwood Press, 2002).
• "The Diem Experiment: Franco-American Conflict Over South Vietnam, 1954-1955," The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 6/2-3 (Special Issue, Summer-Fall 1997): 145-173.