Amanda McVety

Contact

• mcvetyak@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 282 Upham Hall, Oxford Campus
• 513-529-5125
• Office hours: W F 9:15-10:45

Title

• Assistant Professor of History

Education

• PhD 2006, University of California, Los Angeles
• MA, College of William and Mary
• BA, North Park University

Teaching and Research Interests

• U.S. Foreign Policy

Recently taught courses

• HST 111 Survey of U.S. History
• HST 219, 222 U.S. Diplomatic History
• HST 400 Senior Capstone: Teddy Roosevelt
• HST 410/510 Foreign Policy: The U.S. and the Middle East

Selected Publications

• “Pursuing Progress: Point Four in Ethiopia,” Diplomatic History, Vol. 32, No. 3, June 2008

Selected Grants and Awards

• Truman Library Dissertation Fellow, 2006

Work in Progress

Dr. McVety researches the intellectual and political origins of foreign aid as a tool of U.S. foreign policy and its implementation abroad. Her book project, Staging Development: Point Four and Ethiopia, uses the history of U.S.-Ethiopian relations as the framework for telling the larger story of U.S. relations in the Horn of Africa, which, in turn, speaks to foreign aid’s ability to effect change around the world.