Jack Hammersmith

Teaching Fields:

U.S. History since the Civil War, Modern Japan, Modern China

Contact:

Jack Hammersmith
202B Woodburn Hall
P.O. Box 6303
Morgantown, WV 26506-6303
Phone: (304) 293-2421 ext. 5235
Fax: (304) 293-3616
jhammer@wvu.edu

• Degrees

  Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1970

• Research Interests

  U.S.-Japanese relations, (early Meiji [late 19th century]), U.S. diplomatic history

• Grad Students Advised

• Courses Offered

  History 106: East Asia: An Introduction
  Hist 153 Making of Modern America: 1865 to the Present.
  History 425: Modern China.
  History 426 History of Modern Japan

• 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.

  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