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UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies

Dr. John Tully

John Tully received his Ph.D. in the history of American Foreign Relations from The Ohio State University. While he was at Ohio State he was the founding director of the Harvey Goldberg Program for Excellence in Teaching, where he also edited an American history reader used in high schools and colleges across the United States. He is currently an assistant professor of history at Central Connecticut State University, where he is also the Social Studies Program Coordinator. He teaches classes in modern American history, American foreign relations, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Council for the Social Studies and the Central Connecticut Writing Project. He has won over $4 million in U.S. Department of Education “Teaching American History” grants to work with secondary and elementary American history teachers.

His current manuscript project, “Ireland and Irish Americans: 1932-1945,” is under contract with Irish Academic Press. He has written on British and Irish public diplomacy, Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy, the Vietnam War in American memory, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Iran-Contra Affair. He has presented his research at meetings of the Transatlantic Studies Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the American Conference for Irish Studies.