Dr. Donna Alvah
St. Lawrence University News
Submitted by dalvah on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 17:25.
Associate Professor and Margaret Vilas Chair of History
Courses I teach regularly:
FYS "Children Past and Present"; The Cold War; Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy (Colonial era to 1900); U.S. Foreign Relations 1900-1945; U.S. Foreign Relations 1945 to the Present; The Vietnam War; World War II; The Nuclear World; Survey of U.S. history since 1877
My research interests:
Children's history; children in the Cold War; International Year of the Child; the U.S. military in Okinawa; U.S. foreign relations--especially social and cultural aspects; relationships between Americans and the world; gender and U.S. foreign relations; U.S. militarism; social and cultural responses to nuclear weapons
Sample student projects I have supervised:
Som Sonenarong, "External Influences on Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Independence Movement," Spring 2011
Jordan Walker, "The Evolution of the Gay Rights Movement, 1940s to 1960s," Spring 2011
Claire Plagge, "From Myth to Beast of Burden: The Transformation of the Horses in Ancient Greece and Rome," Spring 2009
Examples of presentations, exhibitions, performances and published work:
_Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946-1965_ (New York University Press, 2007)
"U.S. Military Families Abroad in the Post-Cold War Era and the ‘New Global Posture,'" in _Over There: Gender and Sexuality in the U.S. Military Empire_, ed. Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon, Duke University Press (2010)
"I am too young to die: Children and the Cold War,” published in the OAH’s _Magazine of History_ special issue on the Cold War in October 2010
Ways I offer service to my discipline and/or the University:
Peace Studies Advisory Board
My current projects:
Book manuscript on children in the Cold War
Conference paper on the International Year of the Child (1979), to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of Childhood and Youth at Columbia University in June 2011
Chapter on wives of U.S. military personnel in the Philippines, 1898-1945, for _Women and the Military_, Brill
Article on sexual assaults on Okinawan women and girls by U.S. military personnel since World War II