Partners in History: Danbury TAH Grant

Dr. Warren Cohen, distinguished author of America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations, will speak at Western Connecticut State University on April 24th 2008.  The lecture entitled, "America in the Age of Chinese Power", will begin at 7:00pm at the Midtown Campus Science Building Room 125.     .Click Read More for information about the author,......Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and Senior Scholar with the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.  He is an historian of America’s foreign relations, especially relations with East Asia.  He has published eighteen books, the best known of which is America’s Response to China (4th. ed. 2000). His most recent book was America’s Failing Empire (2005).  His Reischauer Memorial Lectures at Harvard were published as The Asian American Century in March 2002.  He was general editor of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations (1993) to which he contributed the 4th volume, America in the Age of Soviet Power.  In addition to his scholarly publications, he has written for the  Atlantic Monthly, Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Affairs, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Nation, National Interest, New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, and Washington Post.  He is an occasional commentator on National Public Radio, the Voice of America, and the BBC.  In past years he has served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, chairman of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, consultant on Chinese affairs to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the CIA, the Department of State, two governors of Michigan and three directors of the Michigan Department of Commerce.  During the thirty years he taught at Michigan State University, he was also director of the Asian Studies Center at the university and of the Michigan China Council.  In 2004 he received the Laura and Norman Graebner Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, granted biennially to a senior scholar for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. In 2005, he received an award for research and scholarship from the University of Maryland Board of Trustees.  Please visit his website at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.