Resume

• 2008

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  History

  University of California

  Irvine

• 2003

  Middle East Institute

  World History Association

  International Studies Association

  Economic and Business History Society

  American Historical Association

  Organization of American Historians

  American Studies Association

  Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

  Middle East Studies Association

  American Research Center in Egypt

  English

  Spanish

  French

  Arabic

  Bachelor’s Degree

  History

  University of California

  Santa Barbara

• Teaching

  World History

  Academic Advising

  US History

  Research

  Transnational Studies

  Writing

  Global Studies

  Biography

  History

  International Political Economy

  Middle East Studies

  International Relations

  US and the World

  Cold War Studies

  Lecturing

  Middle East and North Africa History

  Grant Writing

  Political Economy

  American Studies

  Henry Kissinger as Contested Historical Icon in Post-9/11 Debates on US Foreign Policy

  Henry Kissinger as Contested Historical Icon in Post-9/11 Debates on US Foreign Policy

  The United States and International Terrorism (co-authored with Mary S. Barton)

  Government Intervention: Trust-Busting to the Federal Reserve System (1900-1920s)

  Kissinger’s Levantine Dilemma: The Ford Administration and the Syrian Occupation of Lebanon

  Kissinger’s Levantine Dilemma: The Ford Administration and the Syrian Occupation of Lebanon

  Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire

  1967-1988

  Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire

  1967-1988

  Wight

  I am a scholar of international relations

  security studies

  the history of the modern Middle East and North Africa and the United States

  political economy

  terrorism

  and globalization. I am currently completing a book manuscript titled

  \"Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire

  1967–1988

  \" which is contracted for publication with Cornell University Press in its “The United States in the World” series. I conduct research in Arabic

  English

  and French language sources. \n\nMy research has obtained support from seven competitive grants

  including the Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Ernest May Fellowship

  the Dartmouth Dickey Center US Foreign Policy and International Security Post-Doctoral Fellowship

  and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Dissertation Completion Fellowship. I have had articles published in the Diplomatic History

  History & Memory

  and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History

  among others.\n\nI also have extensive college level teaching experience. As an educator

  I focus upon three primary goals: to model to my students how studying international relations and history provides context and perspective for understanding the world; to strengthen the skills of students in recognizing and deconstructing discourses and arguments; and to teach students how to better construct their own arguments using evidence and logic.

  David

  Wight

  University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  University of Southern California

  Boehm Biography Group

  Harvard's Belfer Center

  Dartmouth College Dickey Center for International Understanding

  UC Irvine

  Department of History

  UC Santa Barbara

  University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  University of Southern California

  Los Angeles

  CA

  Lecturer

  Department of History

  Hanover

  NH

  Dartmouth College Dickey Center for International Understanding

  Harvard's Belfer Center

  Cambridge

  MA

  Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy

  Santa Barbara

  CA

  Website Assistant

  Department of History

  UC Santa Barbara

  Irvine

  California

  Instructor of Record

  Department of History

  UC Irvine

  Santa Barbara

  CA

  Assistant to CEO and Founder

  Boehm Biography Group