David Snyder
David Snyder earned his
Ph.D. in 2006 from Southern Illinois University. He also
holds an MA in American Studies from the University of
Wyoming and a BA from the University of Illinois. He was
a Fulbright scholar to the Netherlands in 2003-04, and
was the W. Stull Holt Fellow for the Society of
Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) for
2004.
Research Interests
Dr. Snyder’s research focuses on modern U.S. foreign
relations, transatlantic political economy, and the role
of “public diplomacy” in projecting American power
within international cultural and political space. His
dissertation is a multi-archival case study of these
themes, examining Dutch-American relations in the
crucial post-World War II years. It will be published as
The Dutch Encounter with the American Century:
Clientelism and Modernization in the Netherlands,
1945-1958 by Brill in 2009. Dr. Snyder’s other
publications include a forthcoming chapter on the
Netherlands Information Bureau as well as an invited
contribution on U.S.-Dutch cultural policy to published
in 2009 in the landmark Four Centuries of Dutch-American
Relations. He is currently working on two other articles
examining the role of U.S. public diplomacy within
postwar Dutch debates on gender and domesticity.
Teaching Interests
At Central Michigan Dr. Snyder teaches U.S. survey
courses, historical methodology, research seminars on
U.S. foreign relations, the Vietnam War, and graduate
seminars on the Cold War. His past teaching also
includes modern World, Western Civilization, and U.S.
Sports History.
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