Bruce R. Kuniholm, Director, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and Professor and Chair of Public Policy Studies; Professor of History
Office Location: 124 Sanford Institute
Office Phone: 919.613.7309
Email Address: bruce.kuniholm@duke.edu
Areas of Expertise:
History
International
Education:
Policy Sciences, M.A.P.P.S., Duke University, 1976
PhD, Duke University, 1976
History, M.A., Duke University, 1972
English, A.B., Dartmouth College, 1964
French, University of Dijon, France, 1962
Research Categories: Middle East Policy, International Security Studies, and U.S. Foreign Policy
Research Description: U.S. policy in the Middle East; U.S. diplomatic history; national security
Recent Publications (More Publications)
- B. Kuniholm. "Die Nahostkriege, der Palastinakonflikt und er Kalte Krieg." Heisse Kriege im Kalten Krieg. Ed. Bernd Greiner, Christian Th Muller, Dierk Walter 2006
- B. Kuniholm. "(Interviews: WRAL TV, NPR (Wisc. and Min.), ABC, Channel 5, 14, Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald." (2006).
- Vassilis Fouskas. Zones of Conflict: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle East. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans 7.1 (March, 2005): 126-128.
- Athanasios Lykogiannis. Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis 1944-1947: from Liberation to the Truman Doctrine. American Historical Review 109.5 (December, 2004): 1633-1634.
- B. Kuniholm. "Thinking about the Future: Turkey, the United States and the World." Turkish-American Relations: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Mustafa Aydin and Cagri Erhan Routledge, 2004: 213-229.
Bio/Profile
Bruce Kuniholm is Director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He received his AB from Dartmouth College in 1964 and his MA, MAPPS and Ph.D. from Duke University, where he served as Director of the Sanford Institute from 1989 to 1994, and Vice Provost for Academic and International Affairs from 1996-2001. He is currently Professor of History and Public Policy. He has also worked on the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and Policy Planning Staff, and served as a consultant for the United States Army, the United States Marine Corps, the United Technologies Corporation and the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
His research has focused mainly on diplomatic history and U.S. foreign policy in the Near and Middle East. He has had fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations/National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
His first book, The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East: Great Power Conflict and Diplomacy in Iran, Turkey and Greece, won the Stuart Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He has written other books on the Palestinian problem, U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf, and Greek-Turkish relations, and is currently writing a book on the United States and Turkey. In 1989 he won the Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award.
