Edward B. Segel

Professor of History and Humanities, Reed College

3203 S. E. Woodstock Boulevard
Portland, Oregon 97202-8199
Tel. (503-) 771-1112, ext. 7331
Fax: (503-) 777-7769
E-mail: edward.segel@reed.edu

Born December 25, 1938, Boston, Massachusetts

Professional appointments:

Reed College (since 1973)
University of California, Berkeley (1965-73)

Education:

Everett High School, Everett, Massachusetts (1956)
Harvard College: A. B., magna cum laude, History (1960)
Phi Beta Kappa (junior year)

Wadham College, Oxford (1960-61)
(Knox Memorial Fellowship from Harvard University)

University of California, Berkeley: M. A., History (1962); Ph. D., History (1969)
Dissertation: Sir John Simon and British Foreign Policy: The Diplomacy of Disarmament in the Early 1930's (directed by Professor Raymond J. Sontag)

Courses at Reed:

European Diplomatic History from 1848 through the Second World War
The Cold War
Junior Seminars: Origins of the First World War; Origins of the Second World War
War and Society in Europe from the 18th Century through World War I; Special Topics in War and Society in the 20th Century
Britain in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Modern Humanities (Hum. 220): European Civilization from the Old Regime through the 20th Century
Humanities lectures: the Old Regime; Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Magic Flute; the French Revolution; Edmund Burke; Beethoven; the Industrial Revolution; Imperialism; the First World War; Fascism

Major administrative responsibilities at Reed:

Faculty Parliamentarian (1991-93, 1994-97)
Chair, Department of History (1982-87, 1989-93)
Chair, Community Affairs Committee (1992)
Chair, Dean of the Faculty Search Committee (1993)
Chair, Admissions and Financial Aid Committee (1984-87, 1989-91)
Chair, Accreditation Steering Committee (1988-89)
Chair, International Studies Committee (1988-89, 1993-96)

Research interests:

History of foreign policy and international relations, especially Europe from 1919 to 1939; British foreign policy in the 1930's: Disarmament, security, and the "Appeasement" policy; the Cold War
British history in the 19th and 20th centuries: modernization, and the rise and decline of Liberalism

Professional memberships:

American Historical Association
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
North American Conference on British Studies
Committee for Lesbian and Gay History, affiliated with the American Historical Association

Professional activities:

The History Book Club (since 1979) (a division of the Book-of-the-Month Club): evaluations and reviews of books in modern European, British, and American history

Talks and interviews on issues of foreign policy

• "Revisionism Revisited: Recent History Writing on the Cold War" - A talk a Lewis and Clark College, April 1996, as part of the Contemporary International Affairs Lecture Series sponsored jointly by Lewis and Clark and Reed
• Occasional appearances on the news broadcasts of local television stations, especially KOIN-TV, the CBS-TV affiliate in Portland, discussing current international issues
• "Old Slivovitz in New Snifters? - Nationalism and the 'New World Order'": talk at Reed College Global Information Colloquium, April 1993
• "Foreign Policy Problems Facing the Clinton Administration": talk to the Reed College Women's Committee, February 1993
• "The U. S. in a New World: What Goals? What Priorities?": panel discussion for World Affairs Council Great Decisions series, Portland, January 1993 (with companion article in the Portland Oregonian)
• "America, Russia, and the New World Order": talk to Reed College Alumni chapter in Washington, D. C., March 1992
• "A Diplomatic Historian Looks at Foreign Policy": talk to the Reed College Development Group (February 1990) and the Reed Women's Committee (April 1990)
• Panel discussion on the Persian Gulf crisis and war: Reed College Alumni chapter in San Francisco, January 1991
• "Historical Alice-Wonderland or Looking Glass? Arms Control in the 1930's and the 1990's": talk to the Reed College Griffin Society, March 1990
• World Affairs Council Great Decision Series: "Religion and International Politics": panel discussion, March 1986 (First Unitarian Church, Portland)
• "How to Fail at Arms Control: Three Easy Lessons from the 1930's": paper delivered at the Nuclear Age History and Humanities Center, Tufts University, October 1986

Odds and ends:

Friends of Chamber Music (Portland, Oregon: sponsors annual series of chamber music concerts by nationally known ensembles): member of the board, 1977-87
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey: examination reader for the Advanced Placement European History Examination (1979-1988)