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Dr. Allan Winkler

 

WINKLEAM@MUOhio.Edu

 

Cincinnati, Ohio

 

Course co-instructor, Distinguished Professor of History. Allan has also taught at Yale University and the University of Oregon and, for one year each, at the University of Helsinki in Finland, the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands, and the University of Nairobi in Kenya. A prize-winning teacher, he is author of eight books of his own, which include The Politics of Propaganda: The Office of War Information, 1942-1945; Home Front U.S.A.: America during World War II; and Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom, and co-author of the college textbook The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society and the high school textbook America: Pathways to the Present. He was educated at Harvard (BA, magna cum laude 1966), Columbia (MA 1967) and Yale (PhD 1974) and served in the Peace Corps in the Philippines from 1967 to 1969.

 

Allan has traveled and lectured all over the world (primarily in Europe, Asia and Africa). His first trip to Vietnam came in May-June 2002.