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Christopher Endy
Associate Professor
Department of History
Office: King Hall C4076A
Phone: 323-343-2046
Email: cendy (at) calstatela.edu
Office Hours for Fall 2009: Tues/Thurs, 3:10 to 4:10; 5:10 to 6:10; and by appointment
Fall 2009 Classes
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Title |
Units |
Day & Time |
Room |
Course Info |
HIST 388
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Historiography |
4.0 |
Tues 6:10-10:00 |
King Hall B4012 |
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| HIST 478 |
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U.S. International Relations in the 20th Century |
4.0 |
Tues/Thur 1:30-3:10 |
King Hall B4012 |
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| HIST 575 |
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Graduate Readings: The United States and the World |
4.0 |
Thur 6:10-10:00 |
King Hall B4012 |
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(click here for information on other classes I teach)
Research and Teaching Interests
My teaching and research
focus on twentieth-century U.S. history, with an emphasis on international
relations and transnational exchanges. I am particularly interested
in exploring a broad spectrum of interactions between the United States
and the rest of the world. Both my research and teaching thus emphasize
cultural and economic exchanges as well as more traditional diplomatic
history. In the Department of History at Cal State L.A., my regular classes
include courses on twentieth-century international relations and the history
of U.S. popular culture (including U.S. pop culture abroad). I also
frequently teach a seminar on historiography.
My current research focuses
on notions of corporate responsibility and the ethics of economic globalization
from the late nineteenth century through the 1970s. I am particularly
interested in how Americans (from missionaries and activists to policymakers
and corporate leaders) participated in global debates about the meaning
of "good" behavior in cross-cultural business exchanges. The
project aims to explain the evolution of norms and ethics that find their
expression today in debates over free trade, sweatshops, multinational
corporate social responsibility, and anti-corruption measures.
Other projects in progress
include a historiographic survey on the place of consumer society in U.S.
international history and an article-length study on the creation and commemorative
uses of the U.S. military cemetery at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France.
These topics all extend themes
that I explored in my first book, Cold War Holidays: American Tourism
in France,
which appeared in 2004 and won the Bernath Book Prize from the Society
for Historians of American Foreign Relations. The book shows the
importance
of leisure and consumer society in U.S.-French relations from 1944
through
the early 1970s and weaves together diverse points of view from both
nations,
including diplomats, Parisian hotel workers, and American
tourists.
For more information on the book, visit the publisher's
webpage or read this short piece from the Boston
Globe.
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Short List of Publications
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Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004). |
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"Rudeness and Modernity: The Reception of American
Tourists in Early Fifth-Republic France," French Politics, Culture,
and Society 21 (Spring 2003): 55-86. |
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"Travel and World Power: Americans in Europe,
1890-1917," Diplomatic History 22 (Fall 1998): 565-94. |
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To download a full c.v.
as a Word file, click
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D. History 2000
University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A. History 1996
University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. History &
Political Science 1994 Duke University, Durham, N.C.
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