James Eldin Reed: Author Website

James Eldin Reed, Ph.D.
Historian, Consultant, Educator
Boston, Massachusetts
www.jamesreed.us



Current Position: Visiting Fellow, Harvard University (faculty rank, Harvard Divinity School)

President, Massachusetts Fulbright Association

Recent State Department Grants: Albania, 2007; Canada, 2004-5

Speaking Topics:

1) Religion and International Politics: Is There a Clash of Civilizations?
2) The Rise of China in Historical Perspective
3) America’s Stake in the Balkans and Southeast Europe
4) Soft Power and Hard Realities: The Future of Cultural Diplomacy
5) Emerging Trends in American Foreign Relations

Contact Information:
Email: jimreed@post.harvard.edu Home phone: (617-232-9547)
Home address: 25 Holly Lane, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, U.S.A.


Research Interests: America in the World; Religion and Politics; Cultural Diplomacy



Education: A.B., magna cum laude, Ripon College, Wisconsin; A.M. (History), M.T.S. (Religious Studies), and Ph.D. (American History—International Relations), Harvard University.


Recent Academic Appointments: Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, 1992-93, 96-present; Research Associate, North Pacific Program, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1994-96; Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1993-94; Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2004-; Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Public Policy, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2004-2005; Fulbright Senior Specialist in American Studies, University of Tirana, Albania, 2007.


Consulting Career: Founding Principal, Addis & Reed Consulting, Inc., Boston. Wide range of capabilities in public affairs and international consulting. Firm resume available at www.addisreed.com


Key Publications: East Asia and Pacific: “China on Our Minds: History and Policy in the Asia-Pacific World,” International Journal, spring 2006; The Missionary Mind and American East Asia Policy (Harvard University Press, 1983), foreword by John King Fairbank; “James C. Thomson, Jr.,” Perspectives (American Historical Association), February 2003—The Middle East: “American Foreign Policy, the Politics of Missions, and Josiah Strong, Church History, June 1972—The Americas: The American Canada Watch, 1995-1999 (ISSN 1090-7076, monthly subscription newsletter); “Will Americans Finally Train Lenses on Canada?”, Christian Science Monitor, December 15, 1995.


Recent Book Reviews: Anatol Lieven, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism, in International Journal, autumn 2005; Kevin Jackson Phillips, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, in International Journal, autumn 2007; John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, in International Journal, winter 2008; and Walter Russell Mead, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, in International Journal, winter 2008-2009, forthcoming.


Recent Conferences--Papers and Presentations: Chair, panel on “International Political Conflict: Ukraine, Cameroun, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan,” Fulbright Conference at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, March 2007; “Northwest Renaissance: Religion and Cultural Modernism in an Unfinished Landscape,” paper for Colloquium on North American Religion, Harvard Divinity School, April 2007; “A Clash of Civilizations?: The Case of the Balkans,” presentation at Conference on Democracy and Security: Challenges to South Eastern Europe Politics and Integration,” Vlore, Albania, September 2007; “The Values Debate in the 2008 American Elections: Religious and Cultural Conflicts,” Fulbright Forum, Northeastern University, Feb. 2008; Co-Chair, with Dr. Alan Schechter, of upcoming Fulbright Forum on "American Foreign Policy and Cultural Diplomacy," Boston, April 2009.

International conference presentations as well in Cuernavaca, Mexico (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy), Amman, Jordan (United Nations University) and Delhi, India (Jawaharlal Nehru University).


Honors and Fellowships: Phi Beta Kappa; Newberry Library Fellow, Chicago, Woodrow Wilson Fellow; Harvard Graduate Prize Fellow; Fulbright Scholar, 2004-2005; Fulbright Senior Specialist, 2007-.


Board Memberships: Fulbright Association, Massachusetts Chapter, 2006-present, President, 2008-; President, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Boston Branch, 1997-2007; Past President, Association of Management Consultants, New England Chapter.


Other Memberships: American Historical Association; American Academy of Religion; Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; Authors Guild. Included in current editions of Who’s Who in American Education and Who’s Who in America.



Languages: French (fluent), German; some Spanish and Italian.

Boston/ February 2009