Andrew Johns

Mon 9 – 11am

• Hist 393. U.S. Foreign Relations
• Hist 490. Senior Research Seminar (U.S. Foreign Relations)

Andrew L. Johns, assistant professor of history, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2000.  He joined the faculty at BYU in 2004 after working in the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State and teaching at Gonzaga University and several universities in Southern California.  He teaches courses on U.S. foreign relations, the American experience in Vietnam, and the United States during the Cold War.

Dr. Johns’s research focuses on 20th century U.S. foreign relations and the modern presidency, with specific emphasis on the nexus of foreign policy and domestic politics.  He is the co-editor of The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War (see link below).  In addition, his research has appeared in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Peace & Change, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Journal of American-East Asian Relations, and Michigan Historical Review.  He is currently working to complete books on the Republican party’s influence on U.S. Vietnam policy from 1961-1973, and Hubert Humphrey’s struggles with the Vietnam conflict.

Statler and Johns, eds., The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War
(Rowman & Littlefield, The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, 2006)

Classes Taught:

• Hist 221. U.S. History since 1877
• Hist 376. U.S. History since 1945
• Hist 391. U.S. in Vietnam, 1945-1975
• Hist 393. U.S. Foreign Relations
• Hist 490. Historical Research and Writing