Amanda McVety

Education

• Ph.D., History, 2006, University of California, Los Angeles
• M.A., College of William and Mary
• B.A., North Park University

Teaching and Research Interests

• U.S. Foreign Policy
• International Organizations
• Disease

Work in Progress

Dr. McVety's interests lie at the intersection of international relations, science, and the environment.  Her second book, The Rinderpest Campaigns: A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century, is a history of the ultimately successful international effort to eradicate rinderpest (cattle plague). Her new book project explores the history of medical inteligence in World War II and beyond.

Courses Taught

• HST 111 Survey of U.S. History
• HST 222 U.S. Foreign Relations since 1898
• HST 236 Medicine & Disease in Modern Society
• HST 290 Pandemics in World History
• HST 410 International Organizations after WWII

Selected Publications

• "'Better and More Efficient Animals': Developing Ethiopia's Cattle in the 1940s and 1950s," Transplanting Modernity: The Environmental Legacy of International Development, ed. Thomas B. Robertson and Jenny Leigh Smith (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
• "Wealth and Nations: The Origins of International Development Assistance," in The Development Century: A Global History, ed. Stephen Macekura and Erez Manela (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 21-39.
• The Rinderpest Campaigns: A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
• "JFK and Modernization Theory" in The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy, ed. Andrew Hoberek (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• "Fear, Want, and the Internationalism of the Early Cold War" in The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War, ed. Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Craig Daigle (Routledge, 2014).
• Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia (Oxford University Press, 2012).
• "The Origins of the Cold War in International Perspective" in A Companion to Harry S. Truman, ed. Daniel S. Margolies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
• "The Skinner Mission: Images of Ethiopia in the Progressive Era," The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 10:2 (April 2011).
• "Pursuing Progress: Point Four in Ethiopia," Diplomatic History 32:3 (June 2008).

Selected Grants and Awards

• Naus Family Faculty Scholar 2018-2021
• Truman-Kauffman Fellow 2013-14

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• Department of History
• Sue J. Henry Center for Pre-Law Education