History Department Faculty
Seth Jacobs
Professor
Seth Jacobs
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall S389
Telephone: 617-552-8459
Email: seth.jacobs.2@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Yale University
- M.A., University of Chicago
- M.F.A., DePaul University
- M.A., Northwestern University
- Ph.D., Northwestern University
Research Interests
Twentieth-century United States; U.S. foreign policy; U.S.-Asian relations
Department
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
- “Laos” in A Companion to John F. Kennedy, Marc J. Selverstone, ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
- The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos (Cornell University Press, 2012)
- "Ngo Dinh Diem: The Impossible Ally" in Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology, Third Edition, Andrew Rotter, ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)
- "'No Place to Fight a War': Laos and the Evolution of U.S. Policy toward Vietnam, 1954-1963" in Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives, Mark Philip Bradley and Marilyn B. Young, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2008)
- "The Religious Roots of U.S. Support for Ngo Dinh Diem" in Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War, Fourth Edition, Robert McMahon, ed. (Houghton Mifflin, 2008)
- "'A Monumental Struggle of Good versus Evil': American Crusaders in Vietnam and Iraq," New England Journal of History, Volume 64, Number 1, Fall 2007
- Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
- America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957 (Duke University Press, 2004)
- "’Our System Demands the Supreme Being': America's Religious Revival and the 'Diem Experiment,' 1954-1955," Diplomatic History, Volume 25, Number 2, Fall 2001