College of University Studies and Programs ~ Dean & Staff
Dr. David L. Anderson is Dean of the College of University Studies and Programs at California State University, Monterey Bay. Previously, he was Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Indianapolis, where he taught history from 1981 to 2004. He has held his administrative position at CSUMB since 2004. His community involvment includes President of the Board of Directors of the Natividad Medical Foundation, member of the Board of Advisors of the Fort Ord Alumni Association, and Chair of the Fort Ord Museum and Archive Project.
He is a specialist in the history of U.S. relations with East and Southeast Asia. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). He has served on the editorial boards of Diplomatic History and the Vietnam Documentation Project of the national Security Archive. He is general editor of the book series, Vietnam: America in the War Years, published by Rowman and Littlefield. In 1994, he was Visiting Professor of History at Anhui Normal University in the People's Republic of China. In his thirty-three-year career in higher education, he has also taught at the University of Montana, Texas Tech University, Sam Houston State University (Huntsvile, Texas), and California Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo).
His books include Imperialism and Idealism: American Diplomats in China (Indiana, 1985), Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam (Columbia, 1991), Shadow on the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War (Kansas, 1993), Facing My Lai: Moving Beyond the Massacre (Kansas, 1998), The Human Tradition in the Vietnam Era (Scholarly Resources, 2000), The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War (Columbia, 2002), The Human Tradition in America Since 1945 (Scholarly Resources, 2003),The Vietnam War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and The War That Never Ends: New Perspectives on the Vietnam War (2007).Trapped by Success received the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from SHAFR.The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War earned a “Best of the Best” designation from the American Library Association and the American Association of University Presses and an “Outstanding Academic Title” listing from Choice magazine. His scholarship includes approximately 80 articles and reviews and more than 50 conference presentations. The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education in Washington, D.C. named him the 1991 Indiana Professor of the Year. His current project is the Columbia History of the Vietnam War.
He has a B.A. from Rice University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from the University of Virginia. He was in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1970 and served in the Vietnam War as a sergeant in the Signal Corps.
Office:
College of University Studies and Programs
California State University, Monterey Bay
100 Campus Center Building 58
Seaside, CA 93955-8001
Phone: 831-582-3183; Fax 831-582-3843
David_Anderson@csumb.edu
Home:
1614 Hodges Court
Marina, CA 93933
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DavidLAnderson2@aol.com
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