Max Paul Friedman

Associate Professor
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Battelle 157
friedman@american.edu
202-885-2154
Office Hours: On Leave, Contact by Email
Curriculum Vitae

Course Syllabi

HIS 360 U.S. Foreign Relations to 1918
HIS 362 America and the Cold War
HIS 500 Globalization, Americanization and Anti-Americanism

Fields of Interest

Max Paul Friedman joins the faculty at American University as Associate Professor of History after teaching at Florida State University since 2002. An Oberlin College graduate (1989), he received his M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (2000) in history from the University of California at Berkeley. From 2000-2002 he was Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Cologne (2003-04, 2007). His research interests include twentieth century U.S. foreign relations, broadly defined, with an emphasis on Western Europe and Latin America.

Friedman’s book, Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II (Cambridge, 2003, paperback, 2005) won the Herbert Hoover Book Prize in U.S. History and the A.B. Thomas Book Prize in Latin American Studies. He has co-edited a volume with Padraic Kenney entitled Partisan Histories: The Past in Contemporary Global Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). His articles have appeared in Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Diplomatic History, German Life and Letters, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Journal of Policy History, Journal of Social History, Oral History Review, Procesos: Revista Ecuatoriana de Historia, and The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History. An article in Diplomatic History, "There Goes the Neighborhood: Blacklisting Germans and the Evanescence of the Good Neighbor Policy" (September 2003) won the Bernath Article Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He has held fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German Historical Institute, the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Tinker Foundation on Latin America, and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He is working on a history of anti-Americanism and foreign perceptions of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. Before entering academia he was assistant producer for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and a freelance writer for national newspapers and magazines.