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Michael A. Barnhart
Department of History
SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794
(631) 632-7500
[email protected]
41 Lakeland Ave.
Babylon, NY 11702
(631) 422-6305
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1980 (History).
A.M., Harvard University, 1974 (History).
B.S. with highest distinction, Northwestern University, 1973 (Communications Studies).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook,
1980-. Graduate and undergraduate instruction in the history of American foreign relations and politics,
American-East Asian relations, and modern Japanese history.
W. Averell Harriman College, SUNY-Stony Brook, 1981- . Graduate instruction in comparative
institutions & international management.
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1975-79. Tutorials for honors undergraduates in American history.
Technical Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974-79. Courses in modern world history.
Guest Lecturer, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 1976-77.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
E Pluribus: A Political History of American Foreign Relations, 2 volumes. Under contract with Pearson
Publishing.
"Domestic Politics, Interservice Impasse, and Japan's Decisions for War," History and Neorealism, eds.
Ernest R. May, Richard Rosecrance, and Zara Steiner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010):
185-200.
“Nijiteki jiken: 1952-nen kara 68-nen ni okeru Beikoku no taigaikeizai seisaku to Nihon,” [“A Secondary
Affair: America’s Foreign Economic policy and Japan, 1952-1968"] Amerika no tai-Nichi senryö seisaku
to sono eikyö [American Occupation Policy toward Japan and Its Impact] eds. Yoneyuki Sugita and Mark
Caprio (Akashi Books, 2004): 13-46.
“History as Victim: The Sorry State of the Study of US-Japanese Relations, 1900-1945,” A Companion to
American Foreign Relations, ed., Robert D. Schulzinger. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2003): 121-133.
“From Hershey Bars to Motor Cars: America’s Economic Policy Toward Japan, 1945-1976,@
Partnership: The United States and Japan, 1951-2001, eds. Akira Iriye and Robert A. Wampler. (Tokyo:
Kodansha International, 2001): 201-222.
“Hirohito and His Army,” The International History Review 21 (September 1999): 696-703.
“Big Questions and Many Tongues: The World War and American Isolation,” Rethinking International
Relations: Ernest R. May and the Study of World Affairs, ed. Akira Iriye. (Imprint Publications, 1998):
259-263.
“’Making It Easy for Him:’ The Imperial Japanese Navy and Franklin D. Roosevelt to Pearl Harbor,@
F.D.R. and the U.S. Navy, ed., Edward J. Marolda. (St. Martin’s Press, 1998): 35-46.
"The Origins of World War II in Asia and the Pacific," Diplomatic History 20 (Spring 1996): 241-260.
"Driven by Domestics: American Relations with Japan and Korea, 1900-1945," Pacific Passage: The
Study of American-East Asian Relations on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century, ed. Warren I. Cohen.
(Columbia University Press, 1996): 190-212.
Japan and the World since 1868. (London: Edwin Arnold Books Ltd., 1995).
"The Incomplete Alliance: America and Japan after World War II," Diplomatic History 18 (Fall 1993):
615-620.
“Nihon rikugun no shinchitsujokösö to kaisen kettei” ["The Imperial Army's New Order and Japan's
Decision for War,"] Taiheiyö sensö [The Pacific War], eds. Hosoya Chihiro, Homma Nagayo, Akira
Iriye, and Hatano Sumio. (University of Tokyo Press, 1993): 33-44.
"Hornbeck was Right: The Realist Approach to American Foreign Policy toward Japan," Pearl Harbor
Re-examined, eds. Hilary Conroy and Harry Wray. (University of Hawaii Press, 1990), pp. 65-72.
Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941. (Cornell University Press,
1987).
Editor, Congress and United States Foreign Policy: Controlling the Use of Force in the Nuclear Age
(State University of New York Press, 1987).
"The British Are Coming! Some Recent Trends in the Study of American-Japanese Relations," The
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter, 15 (December 1984): 52-56.
"Japanese Intelligence before the Pacific War: 'Best Case' Analysis," Knowing One's Enemies:
Intelligence Assessment before the Two World Wars, ed. Ernest R. May, (Princeton University Press,
1984), pp. 424-455.
"Japan's Drive to Autarky," Japan Examined, eds. Harry Wray and Hilary Conroy, (University of Hawaii
Press, 1983), pp. 293-300.
"Planning the Pearl Harbor Attack: A Study in Military Politics," Aerospace Historian 29 (December
1982): 246-252.
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"Fire When Ready: Tactical Naval Combat in the Pre-Dreadnought Era, a Simulation," (Houston:
Metagaming, Inc., 1982).
"Japan's Economic Security and the Origins of the Pacific War," The Journal of Strategic Studies 4 (June1
1981): 105-124.
REVIEWS
Stuart D. Goldman, Nomonhan 1939: The Red Army’s Victory that Shaped World War II. War in History
22 (June 2015): 262-263.
Yukiko Koshiro, Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August
1945. History: Reviews of New Books 43 (April 2015): 75.
Daqing Yang, Jie Liu, Hiroshi Mitani and Andrew Gordon, Toward a History Beyond Borders:
Contentious Issues in Sino-Japanese Relations. The Journal of Asian Studies 72 (November 2013): 10061007.
Mark Peattie, Edward Drea, and Hans van de Ven, eds., Essays on the Military History of the SinoJapanese War of 1937-1945. Journal of Japanese Studies 39 (June 2013): 469-472.
Michael Auslin, Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations. American Historical
Review 117 (February 2012): 168.
Hiroshi Kitamura, Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated
Japan. Review: H-DIPLO October 2011 http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XIII8.pdf
Jonathan Clements, Prince Saionji: Japan (Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences
of 1919-23 and their aftermath). Review: H-DIPLO September 2010 URL: http://www.hnet.org/~diplo/essays/PDF/Barnhart-Clements.pdf
Marc Gallicchio, The Scramble for Asia: US Military Power in the Aftermath of the Pacific War. Pacific
Affairs 83 (June 2010): 360-361.
Roger Dingman, Deciphering the Rising Sun: Navy and Marine Corps Codebreakers, Translators, and
Interpreters in the Pacific War. The International History Review 32 (June 2010): 33-34.
Peter Mauch, “A Bolt From the Blue? New Evidence on the Japanese Navy and the Draft Understanding
Between Japan and the United States, April 1941.” Pacific Historical Review 78 (February 2009): 55-79.
Review: H-DIPLO March 2009 URL: http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/reviews/PDF/Barnhart-Mauch.pdf
Charles Schencking, Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese
Navy, 1868-1922. The Journal of Japanese Studies 33 (Winter 2007): 288-9.
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Sadao Asada, From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States. The
International History Review 29 (September 2007): 625-6.
Paul A.C. Koistinen, Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945.
The American Historical Review 111 (October 2006): 1210-1.
Michael R. Auslin, Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese
Diplomacy. The International History Review 28 (March 2006): 183-5.
Francis J. Gavin, Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971.
Diplomatic History 29 (November 2005): 875-877.
Ming Wan, Japan Between Asia and the West: Economic Power and Strategic Balance. Pacific Affairs 76
(Winter 2003-2004): 654-655.
Roger Buckley, The United States in the Asia-Pacific since 1945. Pacific Historical Review 72 (May
2003): 318-320.
Barbara J. Brooks, Japan’s Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China, 1895-1938.
American Historical Review 107 (December 2002): 1540-1.
Mark Peattie, Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941. The International History
Review 24 (December 2002): 916-7.
Tim Maga, Judgement at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials. The Journal of American History 88
(March 2002): 1591-2.
Justus D. Doenecke, Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941.
Intelligence and National Security 16 (Autumn 2001): 168.
Frederick R. Dickinson, War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919. The Journal
of Interdisciplinary History 31 (Autumn 2000): 320-1.
Timothy P. Maga, Hands across the Sea? US-Japan Relations, 1961-1981. The International History
Review 20 (December 1998): 1047-9.
John M. Jennings, The Opium Empire: Japanese Imperialism and Drug Trafficking in Asia, 1895-1945,
The American Historical Review 103 (October 1998): 1299-1300.
William R. Nester, Power across the Pacific: A Diplomatic History of American Relations with Japan,
The International History Review 19 (November 1997): 920-2.
Chihiro Hosoya, ed., Nichi-Bei kankei tsushi; Yumi Hiwatari, Sengo seiji to Nichi-Bei kankei; Yoshihisa
Hara, Nichi-Bei kankei no kozu: Ampo kaitei o kensho suru; Sadao Asada, Ryotaisen kan no Nichi-Bei
kankei: Kaigun to seisaku kettei. The Journal of American History 83 (March 1997): 1477-9.
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John Winton, Ultra in the Pacific: How Breaking Japanese Codes and Ciphers Affected Naval Operations
Against Japan and John Ray Skates, The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb, Intelligence and
National Security 11 (April 1996): 381-2.
Jonathan Marshall, To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific
War, The Journal of American History 82 (December 1995): 1274-5.
Richard J. Samuels, "Rich Nation, Strong Army:" National Security and the Technological
Transformation of Japan, Business History Review 69 (Spring 1995): 114-115.
James W. Morley, ed., The Final Confrontation: Japan's Negotiations with the United States, 1941, The
Journal of Asian Studies 54 (May 1995): 505-7.
Carl Boyd, Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General shima Hiroshi and MAGIC Intelligence, 1941-1945,
Intelligence and National Security 9 (July 1994): 564-5.
Andrew Gordon, ed., Postwar Japan as History, The Journal of Asian Studies 53 (May 1994): 556-7.
Nazli Choucri, Robert C. North, and Susumu Yamakage, The Challenge of Japan Before World War II
and After, The Journal of Japanese Studies (Spring 1994): 267-270.
Gregory Hooks, The Battle of the Potomac: Forging the Military-Industrial Complex during World War
Two, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Autumn 1993): 380-382.
Kenneth B. Pyle, The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era, Pacific Affairs 66 (Summer
1993): 276-277.
Richard Fuller, Shkan--Hirohito's Samurai: Leaders of the Japanese Armed Forces, 1926-1945, The
Historian (Summer 1993): 740-741.
Natalie A. Naylor, Douglas Brinkley, and John Allen Gable, eds., Theodore Roosevelt: Many
Sided American, The Long Island Historical Journal, (Spring 1993): 251-254.
Edward J. Drea, MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945, Intelligence
and National Security , (April 1993): 274-275.
William M. Fletcher III, The Japanese Business Community and National Trade Policy, 1920-1941, The
American Historical Review, (June 1991): 932-933.
Michael Schaller, MacArthur: The Far Eastern General, Journal of Asian Studies, 48 (November 1989):
811-812.
Jonathan Utley, Going to War with Japan, Journal of Asian Studies, 45 (August 1986): 865-867.
Ronald H. Spector, Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan, The Journal of Strategic
Studies, 9 (March 1986): 100-101.
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H. P. Willmott, The Barrier and the Javelin, The Journal of Strategic Studies 7 (December 1984):
462-464.
James W. Morley, ed., The China Quagmire, The Journal of Strategic Studies, 7 (September 1984):
338-339.
H. P. Willmott, Empires in the Balance, The Journal of Strategic Studies, 6 (December 1983): 116-117.
James W. Morley, ed., The Fateful Choice, The Journal of Strategic Studies 4 (March 1981): 89-91.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Series Editor, The Second World War: Politics and Peoples in Conflict, Scholarly Resources, 1999-2005.
Editor, The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 1991-1995.
Editorial Advisory Board, The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 1995-present.
Board of Directors, National Security Archive, U.S.-Japan Project, 1993-2000.
Program Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 1998.
DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED
Doctoral:
Cristobal Zuñiga-Espinosa, “Promoting Development: The Making of the Alliance for Progress.” (2014)
Heejeong Sohn, “Consuming Modernity: Photography in Pre-Colonial Korea, 1876-1910.” (2014)
Jean-Baptiste Hajayandi, “The Bright Side of the Coin: American Assistance amid Contentious
Involvement in the Congo, 1960-1965.” (2013)
George Monahan, “The Army-Navy Contest for Control of Land-Based Antisubmarine Aviation and the
Military Unification Debate, 1942-1948.” (2010)
Seth Offenbach, “The Other Side of Vietnam: The Conservative MKovement and the Vietnam War.”
(2010)
Norberto Barreto, “Images of Empire: The United States in Puerto Rico and the Philippines.” (2007)
Guy LoFaro, “Sword of Saint Michael: The 82nd Airborne Division in World War Two.” (2007)
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Terry Hamblin,”Selling America: The Voice of America and United States Radio Propaganda to Western
Europe, 1945-1954.” (2006)
Steven J. Fuchs, “Feeding the Japanese: MacArthur, Washington, and the Rebuilding of Japan through
Food Policy.” (2002)
Victoria Allison, “The Bitch Goddess and the Nazi Elvis: Peronist Argentina in the U.S. Popular
Imagination.” (2001)
Michael Krysko, “China Tuned Out: American Radio in East Asia, 1919-1941.” (2001)
Maria Cristina Zaccarini, “The Sino-American Friendship as Tradition and Challenge: Dr. Ailie Gale in
China, 1908-1950.” (1998)
Paul Pedisich, “Congress Provides a Navy: The Emergence of a Modern Navy as a Force in
Congressional Politics, 1882-1916.” (1997).
Panjiotis K. Parides, “The Politics of the Atom: Nuclear Diplomacy, National Security, and the AngloAmerican Alliance, 1939-1945.” (1997).
Herbert Laub, “The Path to Camp David: American-Israeli-Egyptian Relations, 1969-1979.” (1996)
Gail Hanson, "Sumner Welles and the American System: The United States in the Caribbean, 19201940." (1993).
Peter Bales, "Nelson Rockefeller and His Quest for Inter-American Unity." (1992).
Brahmjyot Grewal, "The Wilson Administration and Japan: Politics of Diplomatic Confrontation, 19131919." (1993).
William M.P. Dunne, "An Irish Immigration Success Story: Thomas Francis McManus (1856-1938)."
(1991).
Undergraduate:
Gan Luo, “Two Missions to China: A Comparison of Hurley and Marshall in Sino-American
Diplomacy.” (2015)
Alexandros Hatziargyrou, “A Global Perspective: The American Acceptance of Internationalism.” (2014)
Kimberly Schwicke, “From the Third Reich to the United States: American Recruitment of Nazi
Officers.” (2013)
Karissa Povey, “Cautious Optimism: Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union.” (2012)
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Vincent Belfiore, “Boy in Short Pants to Cold Warrior: The Influence of the Cuban Missile Crisis on the
Success of John F. Kennedy’s Foreign Policy.” (2011)
Michael Valente, “Chinese and U.S. Relations during World War Two.” (2011)
Jonathan Juli, “Warships and Washington: The Five-Power Treaty and Naval Arms Limitation.” (2009)
Gregory Woody, “Political Stripes: A Political Study of the Flying Tigers.” (2009)
Mitchell Fourman, “Apocalypse Not? American Decisions in Vietnam Had John F. Kennedy Not Been
Assassinated” (2008)
Zahra Khan, “The Propagation of Democracy through Education Reform in U.S. Occupied Japan.” (2007)
Novneet Chhabra, “Alien Citizens: The Analysis of the Socioeconomic and Political Conditions Leading
to the Internment of Japanese-American Citizens during World War Two.” (2007)
Kimberly Terranova, “The Marshall Plan as Progressivism.” (2006)
Bradley Reid, “Poking the Tiger: The Disconnect between Presidential Policy and Its Execution and
Chinese Intervention in the Korean War.” (2005)
Melissa Rice, “Defending....what Democracy? The Media and the Government in the Vietnam and Gulf
Wars.” (2005)
Steven Aronsen, “Civil War Generalship: Four Case Studies.” (2003)
William Han, “Father of Early American Foreign Policy: John Quincy Adams.” (2002)
Catherine Poissant, “ A Public Misled: The Media’s Representation of the Tet Offensive and the
Resulting Impact on American Public Opinion .” (2001)
Richard Acritelli, “Patton: A Study in Command.” (2000)
Jennifer Baumgartner, “Enigma’s Role in World War Two.” (1996)
Allison Ittig, “The Manhattan Project: A Study in Leadership and Control.” (1996)
Carlos Yun, "The Sun Rises Over the Land of the Morning Calm: Korean-Japanese Relations from the
Mid-19th Century to 1910." (1995)
Cara Brick, "Student Ambassadors: Education and the Evacuation of Japanese-Americans during the
Second World War." (1995)
Christopher Grant, "American Public Opinion and the Spanish Civil War." (1993)
Guy Miller, "Rising Sun versus Red Star: Japanese-Soviet Relations in an Era of Global Crisis, 1931-
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1945." (1993)
Christine Merenda, "The French Empire: The Creation of Cochin China." (1991)
Anthony Mercaldi, "A Comparative Study: The Media's Coverage of the Tet Offensive and the Battle of
the Bulge." (1991)
Panjiotis K. Parides, "Policies of Ignorance: A Reinterpretation of Soviet-American Relations from 1917
to 1947." (1991)
Kelly Williams, "The History of the United States Military: Policy, Strategy, and Tactics." (1991)
Irma Jaquez, "The Removal of Arbenz and United States-Caribbean Relations" (1986)
Henry Riffelmacher, "The United States and the Spanish Civil War" (1986)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
History Department, Chair, 2010-2013.
Faculty Supervisor, ACE Program, The Wheatley School, 2010-present.
Search Committee for Chair, Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies, 2001.
President, Phi Beta Kappa, Stony Brook Chapter, 1999-2002.
Undergraduate Council, 1992-3, 2000-10.
History Department, Undergraduate Committee, 1980-96, 2000-10.
History Department, Graduate Committee, 1997-99.
Chapter Advisor, Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, Stony Brook Chapter, 1986-96.
History Department, Executive Committee, 1981-83, 1985.
University Appeals Board, 1981-83.
Faculty Senate, Academic Services Committee, Bookstore
subcommittee, 1981-84.
Faculty Representative, President's Administrative Council, 1982-84.
Guest Instructor, Ward Melville High School, AP Course on "The Vietnam War," 1983.
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Search Committee for Associate Vice Provost of Curriculum, 1984.
College Alumni Day, Speaker, "Vietnam After Ten Years," 1984.
Chair, History Department, Library Committee, 1984-88.
Traffic Appeals Board, 1985-86.
Faculty Senate, Library Committee, 1987-89.
Faculty Senate, Curriculum Committee, 1988-89, 2001.
Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Freshman Instruction, Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Studies, 1988.
Director of Undergraduate Studies, History Department, 1989-91, 1992-4, 1995-6.
Faculty Senate, General Education Committee, 1989-90.
Faculty Senate, Admissions Committee, 1990-92.
Chair, Student Union Activities Board, 1994-5.
General Faculty Adviser, Summer Orientation, 1986-96.
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