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Kyle Longley is the Snell Family Dean's Distinguished Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies and School of Politics and Global Studies. Longley joined the ASU faculty in 1995 after serving as a visiting professor at The Citadel. He has served in many administrative positions at Arizona State University, including director of graduate studies for the history department, faculty head, associate director of SHPRS, and as a Dean's Faculty Fellow.
Longley's research focuses on U.S. foreign relations and modern American politics. He has published eight books with another in press including: The Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States During the Rise of José Figueres (1997), In the Eagle's Shadow: The United States and Latin America (2003, 2009 2nd edition), Senator Albert Gore Sr.: Tennessee Maverick (2004), Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America's Fortieth President (editor and contributor) [2006], Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam (2008), The Morenci Marines: A Tale of Small Town America and the Vietnam War (2013), Reagan and the World: Leadership and National Security, 1981-1989 (co-editor with Bradley Coleman and contributor) [2017], LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Uphaveal (2018), and the co-authored, In Harm's Way: A Military History of the United States (December 2018). He also was an associate editor for Encyclopedia of United States-Latin American Relations (2012) with Thomas Leonard and a lead editor in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin America (2018-present). Currently, he is writing The Forever Soldiers: Americans at War in Afghanistan and Iraq (for Cambridge University Press) and Al Gore: Global Visionary. His books have won prizes including the Southeastern Council on Latin American Relations A.B. Thomas Award, the Best Book on Arizona History from the Arizona/New Mexico Book Co-op Committee, and the Southwest Book Award from the Arizona Historical Society.
Longley has also published numerous articles and essays in journals including Diplomatic History, Pacific Historical Review, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Review of Faith and International Affairs, AHA Perspectives, and The Americas. His opinion pieces have appeared in Newsweek, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Arizona Republic, San Antonio Express News, and the Austin American Statesman. He has also consulted with other media outlets including ABC News, NPR, C-SPAN, Slate, Voice of America, Time, Jornal do Brazil, JiJi Press, and the Christian Science Monitor.
Professor Longley offers a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses. His most popular at the undergraduate level, both in the traditional form and on the Internet, include Modern U.S. Foreign Relations, the United States and Latin America, the American Experience in Vietnam, the Wars of the Modern Middle East, American Military History, America's Guerrilla Wars, and the American Cinema during the Cold War. Also, he has actively been involved in multidisciplinary courses including a team-taught course with Del Kehl in the Department of English on American Literature and the Holocaust, as well as participating in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Learning Community where he has taught five semesters in the "War, Culture and Memory" cluster with colleagues from religious studies, political science and English.
He also has been an active participant in directing theses in the Honor's College and working with Sun Angel Undergraduate Research Award recipients. At the graduate level, he offers courses in American history including The United States and the World, U.S.-Latin American Relations, Modern U.S. History since 1920 and new courses, The Social Constructions of Masculinity and Their Impact on U.S. Foreign Relations, and The New South in the Modern Era: Political, Social and Economic Changes in a Region in Flux. He has served on more than thirty Ph.D. and M.A. committees, directing more than a dozen, as well as working as a mentor to graduate students about pedagogy.
For his efforts in the classroom, Longley has received several awards including the Zebulon Pearce Teaching Award for Outstanding Teacher in the Humanities, the Associated Students of Arizona State University Centennial Professor, ASU Habitat for Humanity, "Making the World a Cooler Place to Live" prize for teaching, and the Kappa Alpha Fraternity National Teacher of the Year award.
Kyle Longley has written and edited several books and contributed numerous journal articles, encyclopedia entries and book reviews. His books include "The Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States during the Rise of José Figueres" (University of Alabama Press, 1997) which received the A. B. Thomas Prize for the outstanding book published in Latin American Studies from the South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies. In 2002, Harlan Davidson published "In the Eagle's Shadow: The United States and Latin America." A second edition came out in 2008. In 2004, Louisiana State University Press released "Senator Albert Gore, Sr.: Tennessee Maverick" (foreword by Vice President Al Gore). One reviewer emphasized that "the book stands with [Dan] Carter's "Politics of Rage" as one of the best Southern political biographies to date." In 2007, M.E. Sharpe published "Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America's Fortieth President," a collection of essays that he edited and to which he contributed a chapter in addition to introduction and conclusion. His book is "Grunts: The American Infantryman in Vietnam" (2008), which distinguished historian Marilyn Young has characterized as a "sensitive account of the experience of American combat soldiers in Vietnam, from induction to discharge, which is a most timely reminder of the realities of war in a time of war. His canvas is vast and he peoples it vividly, from patriot to protestor and all the degrees in between." The book has been selected for the Military History Book Club and is in its 4th reprint with a revised and expanded edition planned for 2012. His most recent book is "The Houses of the Purple Hearts: The Morenci 9, Small Town America and the Vietnam War" (2011).
| Fall 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HST 340 | American Military History |
| HST 456 | The Vietnam War |
| Spring 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| POS 394 | Special Topics |
| SGS 394 | Special Topics |
| HST 493 | Honors Thesis |
| HST 792 | Research |
| HST 799 | Dissertation |
| Fall 2017 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| HST 456 | The Vietnam War |
| HST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| HST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HST 792 | Research |
| HST 799 | Dissertation |
| Spring 2017 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| POS 394 | Special Topics |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| HST 456 | The Vietnam War |
| HST 792 | Research |
| HST 799 | Dissertation |
| Fall 2016 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HST 340 | American Military History |
| HST 456 | The Vietnam War |
| Spring 2016 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HST 110 | United States Since 1865 |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| SGS 394 | Special Topics |
| HST 493 | Honors Thesis |
| Fall 2015 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| HST 591 | Seminar |
| Spring 2015 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| HST 110 | United States Since 1865 |
| POS 394 | Special Topics |
| HST 494 | Special Topics |
| HST 792 | Research |
| HST 799 | Dissertation |
For his efforts, Longley has received recognition from different groups. These include the Zebulon Pearce Teaching Award for Outstanding Teacher in the Humanities and the Associated Students of Arizona State University that named him the Centennial Professor for outstanding teacher in 2002-2003. He also has received the Arizona State University Habitat for Humanity "Making the World a Cooler Place to Live" Teaching Award, the Preparing Future Faculty Program Mentor Appreciation Award and the Kappa Alpha Fraternity National Teacher of the Year Award.
Longley served as the associate editor of "The Encyclopedia of United States-Latin American Relations" (Congressional Quarterly Press in 2009), "The Switzerland of the Americas: A Concise History of Costa Rica" (with Jason Colby, University of Victoria), and started a project on foreign policy challenges facing the United States in the 21st Century with Admiral Jim Stavridis, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. In the future, he plans on working on a monograph on the suicide of Senator Lester Hunt in 1954.
Professional Service Activities
In addition to research and teaching, Longley been very active in service-related duties at Arizona State University working as chair of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and the Personnel and Advisory Committee, the Graduate Admissions Committee and the Quality of Undergraduate Instruction Committee. He chaired the department's most recent Seven Year Review Committee, participated in a Department of Education grant for improving secondary history and worked as Director of Graduate Studies for two years, building on his chairing the History Department's Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate. He also has been active in the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, the Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for South East Asian Studies.
Many of these responsibilities have overlapped with larger university duties, a number related to Longley's role as the Snell Family Dean's Distinguished Professor. These include working with university president Michael Crow, in the President Community Enrichment Program "Adventures in Learning" classes, a teaching and outreach service geared toward supporters of Arizona State University. Furthermore, Longley has been an active member of the Arizona Humanities Council as a member of the AHC Speaker's Bureau to focus on issues of inter-American relations and in particular, U.S.-Mexican relations, as well as veteran's issues, giving more than 30 presentations throughout Arizona to a wide variety of audiences. Other community participation efforts include the Phoenix Council on Foreign Relations and World Affairs Council.
On the national level, he has worked in a variety of leadership roles. These include organizing and hosting the Third Conference on Inter-American Relations in February 1999, which brought more than 100 distinguished scholars to our campus, and in April 2010, he hosted a conference, "Breaking Down the Walls," that brought together academics, diplomats, non-governmental actors, journalists and members of the military and intelligence communities that focused on the past, present and future of the United States in the world. He also has been active in the South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Organization of America Historians, the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Society (PCB-AHA) and the Southern Historical Association, the latter two having served as a program committee member. In relation to OAH, he has been appointed to the Distinguished Lecturer Board for four years, and served on the Frederick Jackson Turner Book Prize Committee in 2006. Also, he is president-elect of PCB-AHA.
He also has helped distribute information about U.S. foreign relations and politics on the national and international level, acting as a consultant or contributor to the Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, ABC News, Slate, Arizona Republic, Los Angeles Times, Austin American Statesman, the Associated Press, the Voice of America, JiJi Press, Jornal do Brazil and Shanghai Wenhui Daily.
