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Christopher Endy
Professor
Department
of History
Office: King Hall C4076A
Phone: 323-343-2046
Email: cendy (at) calstatela.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2013 -- Tuesdays and
Thursdays, 1:20 to 2:20, 3:15
to 4:15, and by appointment.
Spring 2013 Classes
| Course |
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Title |
Units |
Day & Time |
Room |
Course Info |
HIST 482B
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U.S. Popular
Culture since 1900
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4.0 |
Tues/Thur 4:20 to
6:00 |
King Hall B4017 |
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here
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| HIST 498 |
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Issues
in Teaching History-Social Science |
4.0 |
Tues/Thur
11:40-1:20 |
King Hall B4016 |
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| HIST 501 |
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Introduction
to Graduate Studies in History
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4.0 |
Thur 6:10-10:00 |
King Hall B4012 |
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(click here
for information on other classes I've taught)
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.
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Short List
of Publications
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“Power and Culture
in the West,” Oxford Handbook
of the Cold War, eds. Petra Goedde and Richard Immerman (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 323-340. |
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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 .pdf 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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