Mel Small earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan after receiving his BA from Dartmouth College. Over the past two decades he has concentrated his research and writing on the postwar era, with an emphasis on the Vietnam War, the antiwar movement, and presidents Johnson and Nixon. An historian of U.S. diplomacy, his special interest has always been in the relationships among public opinion, domestic politics and foreign policy, a subject reflected in his recent monographs as well as several theoretical articles. In his very checkered past, he was been a co-investigator on the quantitative IR project, the Correlates of War, a restaurant reviewer for the Metro Times, WSU's NCAA faculty advisor, and department chair.
Courses Offered--Vietnam War, American Foreign Relations
Resumé
Professional Experience:
Assistant Professor to Professor, l965-l976, History Department, Wayne State University
Chair, l979-86, History Department, Wayne State University
Distinguished Professor, Wayne State University, 2004
Research Associate, Correlates of War Project, University of Michigan, l963-
Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, Summer l968
Visiting Professor, Marygrove College, l97l
Visiting Professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark, l972-74, l983
Visiting Professor, Windsor University, l977-78
Education:
Dartmouth College, B.A., June l960
University of Michigan, M.A., June l96l
University of Michigan, Ph.D., December l965
Post Graduate Honors:
Wayne State University, Research Recognition Award, l966
American Council of Learned Societies, Study Fellowship, l969
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, l969-l970
Recipient, President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, W.S.U., l979
Grant-in-Aid, L.B.J. Library, l982, 1988
Grant-in-Aid, ACLS, l983
Faculty Enrichment Grant, Canadian Government, l987
Educational Development Grant, W.S.U., 1987
Fulbright Lectureship, Shanghai, 1987 (declined)
Who's Who in America, 1988 to present
WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, 1989, 1997, 2001
WSU Instructional Enrichment Initiative, 1989
WSU Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Award, 1989
Warren Kuehl Prize of SHAFR, 1989
WSU Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, 1993
Michigan Association of Governing Boards, Distinguished Faculty Award, 1993
WSU Academy of Scholars, 1993, President, 1999-2000
WSU Alumni Service Award, 1994
WSU Small Research Grant, 1987, 1995
Nato Research Fellowship, 1996
WSU Humanities Council Grant, 1996
Liberal Arts College Teaching Award, 2001
WSU Exceptional Service Award, 2001
Hewlett-Woodmere Allumni Hall of Fame, 2005
BOOKS:
The Good Fight Continues, co-editor, New York, NYU Press, fall 2006.
At The Waters Edge, Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 2005.
Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and The Struggle For America’s Hearts and Minds, Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, 2002.
The Presidency of Richard Nixon, Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 1999.
Democracy and Diplomacy: The Impact of Domestic Politics on U.S. Foreign Policy, 1789-1994, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1996.
Covering Dissent, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Give Peace A Chance, co-editor,Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1992.
Appeasing Fascism, co-editor, Lanham, University Press of America, 1991.
Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1988.
Chapter reprinted in McMahon, Major Problems in History of Vietnam War, Heath, 1989, and Retrieving the Past,
Pearson e-publishing
International War: An Anthology, co-editor, Homewood, Dorsey, 1985, Second revised edition, 1988.
Resort to Arms: International and Civil War, 1816-1980, co-author, Beverly Hills, Sage, 1982.
Was War Necessary: National Security and U.S. Entry Into War, Beverly Hills, Sage, 1980. Chapter reprinted in Risjord
(ed.), Insights on American History, Harcourt, 1988.
Wages of War, co-author, New York, Wiley, 1972.
Public Opinion and Historians (ed.), Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1970.
ARTICLES:
“Spiderman Too,” Diplomatic History, March 2006.
“Who Gave Peace a Chance?: LBJ and the Antiwar Movement,”Gardner and Gittenger, The Search For Peace in Vietnam (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2004) 83-96.
“The Election of 1968,” Diplomatic History, 28 (September 23, 2004)
“Presidential Elections and the Cold War,” Robert Schulzinger (ed.), A Companion Guide to American Foreign Relations (Boston, Blackwell, 2003), 404-21.
"Richard Nixon," SEAL: The 60's. 2002, 141-48.
“Richard Nixon,” World Book Encyclopedia, 2003, 428-37.
“A Plan to Save South Vietnam in 1975,” SHAFR Newsletter (December, 2001), 13-30.
“Overview,” of Foreign Relations section in Encyclopedia of The United States in the 19th Century (New York, Scribners, 2001), 500-03.
“Public Opinion,” Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, III, (New York, Scribners, 2002), 275-288, revised and updated.
"Evaluating Nixon's Presidency--Without Watergate," New England Journal of History, 56 (Winter 1999-Spring 2000), 1-14.
"Otto Feinstein, the McCarthy Campaign in Michigan, and Campus Activism During the Cold War," in David Anderson (ed.) The Human Tradition in the Vietnam Era (Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, 2000), 175-194. Reprinted in The Human Tradition in America (Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, 2003).
"News Media, War, and the Military," in The Oxford Companion to American Military History (New York: Oxford, 1999), 497-99.
"SDS," Ibid., 697.
"Vietnam War: Domestic Course," Ibid., 763-65.
"Nixon's Foreign Policy After Twenty-Five Years," in Pundik (ed.), Bjol: Et Fetskrift ( Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1999), 81-88.
"Richard Nixon and His Troubled Legacy," TomPaine. Common Sense (e-magazine), January 24, 2000.
"The Doves Ascendant: The Antiwar Movement in 1968," South Central Review, XVI (Winter 1999-Spring 2000), 43-52.
"Ray Goulding" and "Alexis Lichine" in Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, New York, 1998, 343-45, 535-37.
"Lessons From Nixon's Impeachment," USA Today, (magazine), November, 1998, 40-43.
"Journalism and Foreign Policy," in Jentlesen and Paterson, Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations, Vol. 3, (New York, Oxford, 1997), 477-488.
"The Politics of Foreign Policy," in Kutler, The History of the United States in the Twentieth Century, (New York, Scribners, 1995), 569-592
"When Will They Ever Learn?" Peace and Change, April 1995.
"The Domestic Side of Foreign Policy," OAH Magazine of History, (Spring 1994), 15-20.
"Richard Nixon and the Containment of Domestic Enemies" in Anderson (ed.), Shadow on the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War (Lawrence, Kansas, 1993).
"The World Order Then and Now," Newsday Syndicate, April 6, 1992.
"The New Adventures of Larry, Moe, and Curly: Oliver North's Private Enterprise," Reviews in American History, 20, June 1992, 270-75.
"Some Lessons of Munich," in Appeasing Fascism, 89-98.
"Public Opinion" in Hogan and Paterson (eds.), Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations (New York, Cambridge, 1991), 165-76.
"Kennedy Without Tears," Diplomatic History, 14, (Spring, 1990), 265-71.
"History and the Correlates of War Project" in Sabrosky and Gochman (eds.), Prisoners of War (Lexington, Heath, 1990), 29-39.
"The New York Times and Toronto Globe and Mail View Anti-Vietnam War Demonstrations," Peace and Change (July, 1989), 324-49.
"Influencing the Decision Makers: The Vietnam Experience," Journal of Peace Research, 24, 2(1987), 185-98.
"Woodrow Wilson and U.S. Intervention in World War I" in Carroll and Herring (eds.), Modern American Diplomacy (Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, 1986), 21-34.
Instructor's Manual, War Telecourse, co-author, (Homewood, Dorsey, 1985).
"Governeur Morris" and "XYZ Affair" in Scott and Rothaus (eds.), Historical Dictionary of French Revolution (Westport, Greenwood, 1985), 683-84, 1027-29.
"Interviews as a Source for the History of American Involvement in the VietnamWar," SHAFR Newsletter, 16 (March, 1985), 23-28.
"Public Opinion on Foreign Policy: The View From the Johnson and Nixon White Houses," Politica, XVI, 2 (1984), 184-200.
"The Impact of the Antiwar Movement on Lyndon Johnson: A Preliminary Report," Peace and Change, X (Spring, 1984), 1-22. Reprinted in The Vietnam War: Significant Scholarly Articles, IV, (New York: Garland, 2000) pp. 1-22.
"Hollywood and Teaching About Russian-American Relations," Film and History, X (February, 1980), 1-9.
"Joseph E. Davies," Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement VI (New York, Scribners, 1980), 146-47.
"The Quantification of Diplomatic History," in Lauren (ed.), Diplomacy: New Approaches in History, Theory, and Policy (New York, Free Press, 1979), 69-96.
"Conflict in the International System, 1816-1977: Historical Trends and Policy Futures," in Kegley and McGowan (eds.), Challenges To America: United States Foreign Policy in the 1980's (Beverly Hills, Sage, 1979), co-author, 89-116. Reprinted in Singer (ed.) Explaining War (Beverly Hills, Sage, 1979), 57-82.
"Does Size Make a Difference? The Martial and Diplomatic Experiences of Major and Other Powers, 1816-1977," in Amstrup and Faurby (eds.), Studier i Dansk Udenrigspolitik (Aarhus, Forlaget Political, 1978), 237-58.
"Public Opinion," in DeConde (ed.) Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, III (New York, Scribners, 1978), 544-55.
"Doing Diplomatic History By The Numbers: A Rejoinder", Journal of Conflict Resolution, XXI (March, 1977), 23-34.
"The Structure of the Debate in the Danish EC Election, 1972: A Study of an Opinion - Policy Relationship," Journal of Common Market Studies, co- author, XV (December, 1976), 93-129.
"The Applicability of Quantitative International Politics to Diplomatic History," The Historian, XXVIII (February, 1976), 281-304.
"The War-Proneness of Democratic Regimes, 1816-1965," Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, co-author, I (Summer, 1976), 50-69.
"When Did The Cold War Begin? A Test of an Alternate Indicator of Opinion," Historical Methods Newsletter, VIII (March, 1975), 455-78.
"How We Learned to Love the Russians: American Media and the Soviet Union During World War Two," The Historian, XXXVI (May, 1974), 455-78.
"Foreign Policy Indicators: Predictors of War in History and in the State of theWorld Messages," Policy Sciences, V (1974) 271-96, co-author. Reprinted in Coplin and Kegley (eds.), Analyzing International Relations, (New York, Praeger, 1975), 220-48, and Singer (ed.), The Correlates of War, I (New York, Free Press, 1979), 290-330.
"Buffoons and Brave Hearts: Hollywood Portrays the Russians, 1939-1944," California Historical Quarterly, LII, 4, (Winter, 1973)
"Some Suggestions from the Behavioral Sciences for Historians Interested in the Study of Attitudes," Societas, III (Winter, 1973), 1-19.
"Alanson B. Houghton," Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement IV (New York, Scribners, 1973), 365-66.
"The Diplomatic Importance of States 1816-1970," World Politics, XXV (July, 1973), co-author, 577-99. Reprinted in Singer, Correlates of War, 199-224, and Singer and Diehl (eds.), Measuring the Correlates of War (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1991), 31-52.
"Historical Facts and Scientific Data in the Study of War," special issue of Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Socialpsychologie, Sonderheft 16 (December, 1972), co-author, 221-41.
"Motion Pictures and the Study of Attitudes: Some Problems for Historians," Film and History, II (1972), 1-5.
"America and the German 'Threat' to the Hemisphere 1905-1914," The Americas, XXVIII (Jan. 1972), 252-70.
"Historians Look at Public Opinion," Small (ed.), Public Opinion and Historians (Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1970), 13-32.
"Patterns in International Warfare 1816-1965," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, (Sept. 1970), 145-55, co-author. Reprinted in Short and Wolfgang (eds.), Collective Violence (Chicago, Aldine, 1972), 121- 31, Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series, PS-558, and in Falk and Kim (eds.), The War System (Boulder, Westview, 1980), 551-62.
"Formal Alliances, Extension of the Basic Data," Journal of Peace Research, 3 (1969), 257-82, co-author. Reprinted in Singer and Diehl (eds.), Measuring the Correlates of War, 159-90.
"National Political Units in the Twentieth Century," American Political Science Review, LXII (Sept. 1968), 932-51, co-author.
"National Alliance Commitments and War Involvement," Peace Research Society Papers (1966) 109-40. Reprinted in Rosenau (ed.), International Politics and Foreign Policy (2nd ed., N.Y., Free Press, 1969), 513-42, co-author.
"Democracy and Foreign Policy," Journal of Conflict Resolution, XII (June 1969), 249-57.
"Alliance Aggregation and the Onset of War," Singer (ed.) Quantitative International Politics (New York, Free Press, 1968), 247-86. Reprinted in Beer (ed.), Alliances (New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970), 13-67, and Singer, Correlates of War, 225-64.
"Re-examining the Classic Cold War," Journal of Conflict Resolution, X (1966), 516- 23.
"The Composition and Status Ordering of the International System," World Politics, XVIII (Jan. 1966), 236-82, co-author.
"Formal Alliances," Journal of Peace Research, 1, (1966), 1-32, co-author. Reprinted in Friedman et al. (eds.), Alliance in International Politics (Chicago, Allyn & Bacon, 1970), 130-64.
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