Jack L. Hammersmith
Professor
202B Woodburn Hall
(304)293-2421 x5235
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1970
Teaching Fields:
U.S. History since the Civil War
Modern Japan
Modern China
Research Fields:
U.S.-Japanese relations, (early Meiji [late 19th century])
U.S. diplomatic history
Selected Publications:
Spoilsmen in a "Flowery Fairyland": The Development of the U.S.
Legation in Japan, 1859-1906. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998.
"In Defense of Yalta: Edward R. Stettinius's Roosevelt and the Russians," Vol. 100 (July 1992) Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 429-454.
"John Watson Foster: "A Pacifist After a Fashion," Indiana Magazine of History LXXXIV (June 1988), 117-133.
"American Attempts to Prevent a War Over 'Vietnam': The Experience of John Russell Young, 1882-1885," The Historian XXXVIII (February 1976), 253-268.
Current Research Project:
U.S.-Japanese trade and business disputes in the late 19th century.
Other:
Director, FACDIS (Faculty and Course Development in International Studies).
FACDIS is a consortium of state colleges and universities, both public and private, which
aims to improve the teaching of courses with international components. It was honored with
a certificate of merit in 2000 in the Hesburgh competition sponsored by
TIAA-CREF, by the West Virginia Department of Education and the Arts in 2001
as the first winner of the Cyrus Vance Award for International Education, and by
the Southern Growth Policies Board as the recipient of a 2004 Regional Innovator
Award. For
more information about FACDIS membership, objectives, and activities, see: http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/facdis
Spring 2008 Courses
