Latham, Michael E.

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Latham, Michael E.

PERSONAL:

Education: University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of History, Fordham University, 441 E. Fordham Rd., Bronx, NY 10458-5159. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Fordham University, Bronx, NY, began as assistant professor, became associate professor of history. Worked in China, 2000-01.

WRITINGS:

(Coeditor) Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective, Routledge (New York, NY), 1995.

Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and "Nation Building" in the Kennedy Era, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 2000.

(Editor, with David C. Engerman and others) Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 2003.

Contributor to books. Contributor to periodicals and Web sites, including Peace and Change and Diplomatic History.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, December, 2001, Daniel Lee Kleinman, review of Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and "Nation Building" in the Kennedy Era, p. 1830.

International Affairs, July, 2001, Trevor McKrisken, review of Modernization as Ideology, pp. 722-33.

Journal of American History, December, 2001, Klaus Larres, review of Modernization as Ideology, pp. 1150-1151.

Political Science Quarterly, spring, 2001, Irene Gendzier, review of Modernization as Ideology, p. 145.

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