Peter L. Hahn B.A., 1982, Ohio Wesleyan University; M.A., 1984, Ph.D.,
1987, Vanderbilt University.
Professor Hahn specializes in United States diplomatic history in the
Middle East since 1940. He has won research grants from the J. William
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the Truman Library Institute, the John F. Kennedy Library,
the Lyndon Johnson Foundation, the Eisenhower World Affairs Institute,
the Office of United States Air Force History, and the U.S. Army Center
of Military History.
Prof. Hahn's publications include Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (2005); Caught in the Middle East: U.S.
Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-1961 (2004), The
United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945-1956: Strategy and Diplomacy
in the Early Cold War (1991), and (co-edited with Mary Ann Heiss)
Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World Since
1945 (2001), as well as essays in Diplomatic History, Reviews in
American History, International History Review, and other journals and
books.
Professor Hahn currently serves as Executive Director of the
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is writing a book on the U.S. relationship with Iraq since World War I.
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