Chair of Leadership Studies & Fred Greene Third Century Professor of Political Science

jmcallis @williams .edu

413-597-2572

Schapiro Hall Rm 230 

Education

B.A. State University of New York, Buffalo (1986)

M.A. Columbia University (1989)

Ph.D. Columbia University, Political Science (1999)

Areas of Expertise

“No Exit: America and the German Problem 1943-1954″ Cornell University Press, 2002. “The Lost Revolution: Edward Lansdale and the American Defeat in Vietnam 1964-1968,” Small Wars and Insurgencies (2003), pp.1-26. “A Fiasco of Noble Proportions: The Johnson Administration and the South Vietnamese Elections of 1967,” Pacific Historical Review (2004), pp.619-652. “The Limits of Influence in Vietnam: Great Britain, the United States, and the Diem Regime, 1959-1963,” Small Wars and Insurgencies (2006), pp.22-43. Coauthored with Ian Schulte. “Only Religions Count in Vietnam: Thich Tri Quang and the Vietnam War,” Modern Asian Studies (2007), pp.1-32. “What Can One Man Do? Nguyen Duc Thang and the Limits of Reform in South Vietnam,” Journal of Vietnam Studies (accepted for publication, forthcoming 2008).

Courses

PSCI 127 / LEAD 127(S)America First? The Trump Era and the Future of World Politics

PSCI 202(F)World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations

PSCI 263 / LEAD 242

America and the Vietnam War (not offered 2019/20) 

PSCI 355 T / LEAD 355American Realism: Kennan, Kissinger and the American Style of Foreign Policy (not offered 2019/20) 

PSCI 362 T / LEAD 362

The Wilsonian Tradition in American Foreign Policy (not offered 2019/20