James Graham Wilson

Ph.D Candidate (ABD)

On Leave: Overseas Summer 2009 - Summer 2010

Advisor: Melvyn P. Leffler

Email: jagwilson (at) virginia.edu

Fields & Specialties

American Diplomatic History; Cold War

University of Virginia, M.A., American History, 2006

Vassar College, B.A., History, 2003

I am writing a dissertation about the end of the Cold War.

“Jack Benny and America's Mission after World War II,” Journal of American Studies (August 2010).
“Did Reagan Make Gorbachev Possible?,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (September 2008), 456-475.
“How Grand Was Reagan's Strategy, 1976-1984?” Diplomacy and Statecraft (December 2007), 773-803.

Review of Out of the Shadow: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War, by Christopher Maynard. Red River Historical Journal (Spring 2010).
Review of The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President., edited by Jeffrey A. Engel. Essays in History (Spring 2009).
Review of A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev, by Vladislav M. Zubok. Virginia Quarterly Review, 1 (Spring 2008), 260.

"Bolts from the Blue: Ambivalence Reigns," Research Seminar on International Relations, University of Amsterdam, May 2010.
"Bolts from the Blue: Gorbachev Wrests the Initiative," Oberseminar in International History, University of Cologne, April 2010.
"Bolts from the Blue: George Shultz and a New Framework," Doctoral and Faculty Seminar in International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, April 2010.
"Healthy Gambits: INF Deployment and the Reagan Administration's Four-Part Framework for Negotiations, November 1983 - January 1985," International Conference: The Euromissiles Crisis and the End of the Cold War, Rome, December 2009.
“Jack Benny and America’s Mission after World War II,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2009.
“How Grand Was Reagan’s Strategy?,” Barnes Conference, Temple University, March 2007.

U.Va Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Humanities & Social Sciences, 2009
U.Va Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, 2008
Virginia Swinburne Brownell Prize for excellence in history, Vassar College, 2003
Francis Walker Prize for the study of piano, Vassar College, 2003

Miller Center Fellowship in Politics and History, 2010-2011
Albert Gallatin Fellowship in International Affairs, 2009-2010
National Security Education Program Boren Fellowship, 2009-2010 (declined by recipient)
SHAFR Samuel F. Bemis Research Grant, 2009
U.Va Society of Fellows Summer Research Fellowship, 2009
U.Va Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship, 2009
Scowcroft Institute Grant for research at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, 2009
U.Va Robert J. Huskey travel fellowship, 2007, 2009
U.Va Summer Foreign Language Fellowship for study of Russian at Indiana University, 2007, 2008
Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) grant for study of Russian at University of Virginia, 2006
University of Virginia Presidential Fellowship, 2005-2009
Margaret C. Peabody Fellowship in International Relations, Vassar College, 2005