Taylor Fain

Professor Fain specializes in the history of the United States' relations with the wider world and American history in global context. His research examines the evolution of the Anglo-American relationship, the international history of the Cold War, the United States' roles in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf regions, and the American response to European imperial retrenchment in the post war era. He is the author of American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), and his work has appeared in Diplomatic History, Passport, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Middle Eastern Studies, the American Historical Review, Reviews in American History, and on H-Diplo. Currently, he is writing an international history of the United States in the Indian Ocean during the era of Cold War and decolonization. Dr. Fain teaches a variety of courses on the history of U.S. foreign relations, the global Cold War, and modern American political and national security history. He is a former U.S. Department of State historian and before coming to UNCW served on the faculty of the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, where he was a scholar at the Presidential Recordings Program.

Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia
M.S.F.S, Georgetown University
B.A., University of Virginia

Research Interests

America and the World
History of International Relations
U.S. History in a Global Context
The Cold War in Global History