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Sean L. Malloy
Assistant
Professor of
History
Founding Faculty
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and
Arts
University of California, Merced
P.O. Box 2039
Merced,
CA 95344
smalloy@ucmerced.edu
Ph. D.
(History) Stanford University, 2002
B.A. (History)
University of California, Berkeley, 1994 |
Recent
Publications
Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson
and the Decision to Use the Bomb Against Japan, Cornell University
Press, 2008 (Book Website) (Amazon).
"'The Rules of Civilized Warfare': Scientists,
Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Debate Over Nuclear Targeting,"
1940-1945, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3 (June
2007), 475-512.
Full C.V. (pdf)
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Research and Teaching Interests
My research interests include U.S. diplomatic history and
the related issues of war and morality. My most recent work focuses
on early nuclear history as a way of examining the intersection between
science, ethics, decision making, and morality. In a similar vein, I
am currently working on an historiographical study of U.S. strategic
bombing in World War II. My next major project is an intellectual
history of the New Left and the American foreign policy
tradition.
I have taught broadly at U.C. Merced, including
both halves of the U.S. survey, an upper division class
in African American history, and team-taught classes on the history
and literature of the 1930s and 1960s. I am looking
forward to teaching a graduate seminar examining race, empire, and
U.S. foreign policy in Fall 2008.
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Courses Taught
History 16: The Forging of the U.S.,
1607-1877 (syllabus
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History 17: The Modern United States,
1877-2008 (syllabus
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History 120: Essence of Decision (syllabus
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History 124: African American History (syllabus
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History 131: The History and Literature of the
1930s (syllabus)
History 135: The History and Literature of the
1960s (syllabus
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WCH 240: U.S. Social/Cultural History (syllabus
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WCH 248: Race, Empire, and U.S. Foreign
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