Daniel Sargent

Assistant Professor
2215 Dwinelle Hall
(510) 643-3159
Education: 

Ph.D., History, Harvard University (2008)
M.A., History, Harvard University (2003)
B.A., History, with Double First‐Class Honors, Cambridge University (2001)

Curriculum Vitae: 
Extended Faculty Field: 
International History
Profile: 

Employment

University of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor of History    
2008 ‐Present

Yale University, New Haven, CT                                     
Henry Chauncey Jr. '57 Postdoctoral Fellowship    
2007 ‐2008

Fellowships and Awards

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2007‐07)

Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Pre‐Doctoral Fellowship in National Security Studies (2005‐06)

Harvard University, Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (Awarded 3 times, 2003‐04, 2004‐05)

Teaching Experience

University of California, Berkeley                                   
"The United States and International Order" (Fall 2008, Reading Seminar)
2008 - Present

Yale University                                                             
"Security Strategies of the United States Since Vietnam" (Seminar)
2007 - 2008

Representative Publications: 

Books and Theses

The Shock of the Global: The International History of the 1970s, edited by Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel Sargent (Harvard University Press, Forthcoming, 2009).

From Internationalism to Globalism: The United States and the Transformation of International Politics in the 1970s (PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 2009). [Committee: Akira Iriye, Charles Maier, Ernest May, and Niall Ferguson.]

Articles and Reviews

"The United States and Globalization," in The Shock of the Global: The International History of the 1970s, edited by Ferguson et. al. (Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, Forthcoming).

"Oil, Interdependence, and Hegemony: The United States in the Middle East, 1969‐1974." Paper presented at International Security Studies, Yale University, September 18, 2007.

"The School of Zbigniew," Review of Zbigniew Brzezinski's Second Chance: The Crisis of American Superpower, published in New Global Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 2007.

"Zero Growth" in The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, edited by Akira Iriye and Pierre Yves Saunier (London: Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming).

"Richard Nixon" and "Bretton Woods System" in the Encyclopedia of New Cold War History, edited by Ruud van Dijk, Will Gray, Svetlana Savranskaya, Jeremi Suri, and Qiang Zhai (Routledge, 2008).

Selected Papers and Presentations

"Globalization as a Cold War Crisis." Delivered at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas, February 13, 2007.

"From Internationalism to Globalism: The United States and the Transformation of International Politics in the 1970s." Delivered at the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Annual Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, September 15‐16, 2006.

"The Nixon Administration and the Transformation of International Monetary Order, 1969‐1973." Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Lawrence, Kansas, June 23‐24, 2006.

"The American Cold War and the Challenge of Human Rights: The Cases of Biafra and Bangladesh." Delivered at the London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, April 7‐8, 2006.

"Human Rights and National Interests: Biafra and Bangladesh, 1969‐1973." Delivered at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Seminar Series, Harvard University, February 13, 2006.

"The Nixon Administration and the Reconfiguration of International Economic Order, 1968‐1973." Delivered at the Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History (ConIH), Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 18‐19, 2005.