Sheldon Anderson
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Titles
- Professor
- Joint appointment in the History Department and in the International Studies Program
Education
- PhD 1989, University of Minnesota
- MA, University of Minnesota (Modern European History)
- MA, St. Thomas College (Teaching)
- BA, Augsburg College
Teaching and Research Interests
- Modern Eastern Europe
- Cold War History
- Sports History
Recently taught courses
- HST 122 Western Civilization
- ITS 201 Introduction to International Studies
- HST 275 Twentieth-Century European Diplomacy
- HST 360Z Sports, National Identity, Globalization
- HST 400.4 Senior Capstone: Sports in the 20th Century
- ITS 402 Senior Capstone in International Studies
Selected Publications
- Condemned to Repeat It: Lessons of History and the Making of U.S. Cold War Containment Policy, Lexington Books, 2008
- International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues, with Jeanne Hey, Mark Allen Peterson, and Stanley W. Toops, Westview Press, 2008
- A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc: Polish-East German Relations, 1945-1962, Westview Press, 2000
- A Dollar to Poland is a Dollar to Russia: United States Economic Policy Toward Poland, 1945-1952, Garland Press, 1993
Selected Grants and Awards
- Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington DC) Research Grant, 2003
Work in Progress
Dr. Anderson specializes in the political and diplomatic history of Poland and Eastern Europe. He is currently working on an article on German-Polish sports competitions which is part of a larger work on sports and international relations in the twentieth century.
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