Curriculum Vitae

Bradley R. Simpson

3537 Falls Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211

simpson@umbc.edu; 410-455-2042

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~simpson/bradsimpson.htm

Current Position:
Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2005-present
Assistant Professor of U.S. History and Foreign Relations

Department of History, Idaho State University at Pocatello 2003-2005
Assistant Professor of U.S. History and Foreign Relations

Education:
Ph.D., Northwestern University June 2003
Dissertation: “Modernizing Indonesia: U.S. –Indonesian Relations, 1961-1967”
Major Field: American History; Minor Field: International Politics

Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 1992-1994
B.S., Magna cum Laude, International Relations

Eberhard-Karls Universitaet, Tuebingen, Germany 1993

Duke University, Durham, NC 1990-1991

Awards, Fellowships, Grants:
Research Fellow, National Security Archive 2003-present
Research and Travel Grant, Rockefeller Center Archives 2004
Idaho State University Humanities and Social Science Research Council 2003
Grant for Indonesia/East Timor Documentation Project
Grant from J.M. Kaplan Foundation for Indonesia/East Timor 2002
Documentation Project
Research and travel grant, Gerald Ford Presidential Library 2002
Northwestern University Dissertation Year Fellowship 2001
Kennedy research grant, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library 1999
Travel and research grant, Center for International and 1998
Comparative Studies, Northwestern University
Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship to the South 1998
East Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) at the University of Oregon
Travel and research grant, History Department, Northwestern University 1997
Travel and research grant, Center for International and Comparative Studies, 1996
Northwestern University
University Fellowship, Northwestern University 1995-2000
Recipient of the Jules David Medal for Outstanding History Thesis, 1994
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, “United Fruit Company,
The Mass Media, and Perceptions of Guatemala, 1947-1954”

Experience:
The National Security Archive 2002-present
Research Fellow and director of a project to document U.S. - Indonesian relations from 1965-1999 and U.S. policy toward East Timor from 1975 to the present. This project (available for viewing at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/indonesia/) will declassify thousands of formerly secret documents using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and make them available to the public. In spring 2004 the documentation project provided more than 2,000 pages of formerly secret U.S. documents to East Timor’s Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) which the CAVR used in preparing its final report, due to be released in October 2004.
The National Security Archive 1994-1995, 1997
Research intern and lead FOIA writer on a project to document U.S. – Guatemalan military relations and human rights abuses in Guatemala from the 1960s through the 1990s. Many of the documents declassified through this project were used by Guatemala’s Historical Clarification Commission. The document project was published in 2003 by Carrolton Press.

Publications:

“A Colonial Hot War in Cold War Disguise: The Indonesian Invasion and Occupation of East Timor, 1975-1999,” in Bernd Greiner, ed., Hot Wars in the Cold War ( Hamburg: Hamburg Institute for Social Research, forthcoming)

“’An Essay in the Hopeless’? The United States, the Indonesian Invasion of East Timor and the International Community,” Cold War History, Vol. 5:3 (August 2005)

“Bush’s Retreat on Indonesian Human Rights,” Op-Ed, Jakarta Post, 28 March 2005.

Editor, “The US, South Asia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, 1961-1991,” in Robert Beisner, Ed. American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature (ABC-CLIO), 2004-present.

“U.S. Policy Toward Indonesia, West Papua, and the 1969 ‘Act of Free Choice,’” A National Security Archive Briefing Book, July 2004 (www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/Indonesia).

“Transnational Peace Activism: The International Movement for East Timor and U.S. Foreign Policy,” in Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research (July 2004).

Entries on “Suharto,” “Mohammed Hatta,” “Abdul Harris Nasution,” “the Indonesia Crisis of 1965,” and “the PRRI-Permesta Rebellion” in James Matray, Ed., Encyclopedia of U.S-East Asian Relations, 1784-2001 (Greenwood Press, 2002).

“A Civil Society in East Timor,” Op-Ed, Washington Times, September 28, 1998.

Manuscript and other works in Progress:
Economists with Guns: Anti-Communism, Military Modernization, and U.S. – Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968 (under Contract with Stanford University Press)

“Developing a Counterinsurgency State: The Kennedy Administration’s Modernizing Strategy for Indonesia” (article in progress).

“’Unwarranted and Mischievous Interference:’ The United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, 1975-1981” (article in progress).

Book Reviews:
Review of Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan, eds., The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective (Cambridge, England, 2003), H-Net and H-Peace (forthcoming).

Review of Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War (Boston, 2003), Edited by David C. Engerman, Nils Gilman, Mark H. Haefele, and Michael E. Latham, International History Review, 26:2(June 2004).

Review of Jeremy Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (Cambridge, MA, 2003), Published by H-Net and H-Peace@h-net.msu.edu (September 2003).

Review essay of John Saltford, The United Nations and the Indonesian Takeover of West Papua, 1962-1969: The Anatomy of a Betrayal (Routledge, 2002); Denise Leith, The Politics of Power: Freeport in Suharto’s Indonesia (Hawaii, 2003); and C.L.M. Penders, The West New Guinea Debacle: Dutch Decolonization and Indonesia, 1945-1962 (Hawaii, 2003), Critical Asian Studies, 35:3 (September 2003).

Conference Presentations:
“’Unwarranted and Mischievous Interference:’ The Human Rights Movement, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Indonesian Invasion of East Timor,” forthcoming presentation at the meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA), Chicago, Illinois, November 2004.

“Imagining Indonesian Development: U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1954-1963,” presentation at the meeting of the Organization of American Historians/South (OAH), Atlanta, Georgia, July 2004.

“Embracing the New Order: The Johnson Administration and Indonesian Authoritarianism, 1965-1968,” presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), University of Texas at Austin, June 2004.

“Modernizing Indonesia? Military Modernization, Democracy, and U.S. – Indonesian Relations, 1961-1968,” presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), George Washington University, June 2003.

“Solidarity in the Age of Globalization: East Timor and U.S. Foreign Policy,” presentation at the New School for Social Research conference “History Matters: Social Movements Past, Present, and Future,” New York, May, 2003.

“Transnational Peace Activism: The International Movement for East Timor and U.S. Foreign Policy,” presentation at the Peace History Society Conference at Central Michigan University, April 2003.

“U.S. Policy Toward Indonesia, West Papua, and the 1969 ‘Act of Free Choice,’”
presentation at the Third International Conference on West Papua, London, October 2002.

“Blueprint for Modernization: The Kennedy Administration’s Strategy for Indonesia, 1961-1963,” presentation at the Graduate Student Cold War Conference at George Washington University, summer 2002.

Teaching Interests: U.S. Diplomatic History, 20th Century U.S. History, Modern American Social Movements, Modern Southeast Asian History, International Human Rights

Teaching Experience, Idaho State University:
Postmodern America: U.S. History 1960-present (2004)
Designed and taught upper division course in modern American history
American Orientalism: Modern U.S.-Middle East Relations (2004)
Developed independent study reading course on post WWII U.S.-Middle East relations
Twentieth Century U.S. Foreign Relations (2004)
Designed and taught upper division course in U.S. foreign relations
Civil Rights in Twentieth Century America (2004)
Developed independent study reading course on race and civil rights in modern America
U.S. History since 1865 (2003)
Designed and taught introductory survey course. This course is a core requirement for ISU students.
Modern America: U.S. History 1914-1959 (2003)
Designed and taught upper division lecture course. Offered as a distance learning course.

Teaching Experience, Northwestern University:
War for the Periphery: U.S.-‘Third World’ Relations during the Cold War (2000)
Designed and facilitated an upper division seminar on U.S. relations with the so-called Third World.
Peace and Social Justice Movements in Modern America (2000)
Designed and taught upper division seminar to engage students with the history of peace and social justice activism in twentieth century America.
U.S. – Asian Relations during the Cold War (1999)
Designed and facilitated upper division, seminar on the U.S. encounter with Asia from 1945-1975.
Advisor, senior honors thesis in Women’s Studies/History (1999-2000)
Supervised a year long senior honors history thesis in the Women’s Studies and History department which examined the gender-based activism of the group Women’s Strike for Peace and situated it in the gender and cultural politics of the United States in the early 1960s.
Nonviolence in Twentieth Century America (1998)
Designed and facilitated upper division seminar to engage students with the history of nonviolent social protest in twentieth century America.

Teaching Assistant experience, Northwestern University:
America and the World since 1945 1998
History of the United States: 1865 to the present 1998
The Modern World System 1997
History of the United States: 1865 to the present 1997
History of the United States to 1865 1997
America and the World since 1945 1996

Languages:
German (reading and spoken proficiency), Indonesian (reading proficiency)

Professional Associations:
Peace History Society
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians

Professional Service:
Editor, “The US, South Asia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, 1961-1991,” in Robert Beisner, Ed. American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature (ABC-CLIO), 2004-present.
Manuscript reviewer for the journal Critical Asian Studies
Board Member, Peace History Society
Screener for the Social Science Research Council’s International Dissertation Field
Research Fellowship Program (IDRF)

Invited Lectures and other activities:
Former member of Executive Board of the Indonesia Human Rights Network

Former member of Executive Board of the East Timor Action Network

Historical consultant to the film The New Rulers of the World, produced, written and presented by John Pilger (Bullfrog Films, 2002, 53 min.)

1996, 1997 “Genocide in Paradise: East Timor, Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy,” presentation at Amnesty International Midwest Regional Conference

August 1998 Traveled to East Timor to investigate human rights conditions

September 1998 Briefing on East Timor and Indonesia with staff of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs

October 1998 “East Timor after the Fall of Suharto: On the Road to Independence?” Lecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

November 1998 “The Downfall of Suharto and East Timor’s Future,” Lecture at Washington University in St. Louis

August-September 1999 interviews with French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, U.S. and British radio networks on East Timor’s U.N.-sponsored referendum

References:
Michael Sherry, dissertation chair, Richard W. Leopold Professor of History,
Department of History, Northwestern University
1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL. 60208 -2220, Office: (847) 491-7191,
m-sherry@northwestern.edu

Bruce Cumings, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History
Department of History, University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, Office: (773) 834-1818

Jeffrey Winters, Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science, Scott Hall, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208, Office: (847) 491-7450, winters@northwestern.edu

Kenneth Bain, Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, New York University
7 East 12th Street, Suite 300, New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212-998-2200, E-mail: Ken.Bain@nyu.edu