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CURRICULUM VITAE
STEPHEN JAMES RANDALL FRSC
Professor of History Emeritus/Faculty Professor University of
Calgary
Department of History, Social Sciences Building, 2500 University
Drive N.W.
Calgary AB T2N 1N4 Bus. Tel: (403) 830-1938/ Bus. Fax: (403)
289-8566
e-mail: srandall@ucalgary.ca
EDUCATION
PhD - University of Toronto - History/International Relations -
1972 MA - University of Toronto - United States and European
History - 1967 BA - University of Western Ontario – Honours History
(with English,
Geography, Political Science) - 1966
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2014- Professor Emeritus/Faculty Professor, University of
Calgary 1989-2013- Professor of History, University of Calgary
2010- 2014 Director, Latin American Research Centre, University of
Calgary 2009-2010- Senior Fellow Canadian International Council
2007- Fulbright Chair in North American Studies, American
University, Washington DC 2006- 2009 Director, Institute for United
States Policy Research 1994 –Aug. 2006- Dean, Faculty of Social
Sciences, University of Calgary 2002- 2005 Special Advisor to the
President for the Academic Plan: Raising Our Sights 1989-97-
Professor and Imperial Oil-Lincoln McKay Chair in American Studies,
University
of Calgary 1984-87 Chairman, Department of History, McGill
University 1984 Visiting Professor San Diego State University
(summer session) 1975-78 Chairman, Department of History, McGill
University 1974-89 Assistant to Full Professor, McGill
University
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1971-74 Lecturer to Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
1967 Instructor, National University, Bogotá, Colombia
DISTINCTIONS
♦ Orden de San Carlos, Gran Oficial- awarded by the President
and Foreign Minister of
Colombia- November 2013 ♦ Lifetime Public Service Award,
Canadian Council for the Americas, September 2012. ♦ Awarded Senior
Fellow Appointment, Canadian International Council 2009-2010 ♦
Fulbright Chair in North American Studies and Visiting Fellow,
American University,
Washington DC, 2007. ♦ Awarded Grand Cross, Award of Merit, by
Presidential Decree, Government of Colombia,
March, 2000. Award was for career contributions to an
understanding of Colombian society and inter-American
relations.
♦ International Achievement Award, University of Calgary, 2005.
♦ Appointed to the College of Reviewers, Canada Research Chairs and
Canada Foundation for Innovation, 2000. ♦ Elected, Royal Society of
Canada, 1996. I have chaired the Tyrell Medal Committee and the
Fund Development Committee of the Royal Society of Canada and
served two terms on the nominating committee. ♦ Honourable Mention,
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association for
1978 – 1980, best book in non-Canadian History. ♦ Honourable
Mention, Frederick Jackson Turner Prize, Organization of
American
Historians, 1974, best first book on any aspect of U.S. History.
♦ Fellow, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, 2006- ♦
Directory Listings: Who's Who in Canada, Who's Who in America.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH FIELDS
1. Inter-American Relations (including United States-Canada). 2.
United States, colonial to the present. 3. Latin America, 1800 to
the present.
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
University Appointments: Calgary:
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• Director, Institute for United States Policy Research, School
of Policy Studies, 2006-2009 • Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Calgary, 1994-2006. Social Sciences, with
9 disciplinary based departments and a range of
interdisciplinary programs was the largest faculty at the
University of Calgary, with more than 2,500 majors, honours and
graduate students, 20,000 full course enrollees, and more than 250
faculty and staff)
• Member, General Faculties Council, University of Calgary,
1994-2006 • Member, Executive Committee, General Faculties Council,
University of Calgary • Member and sometimes chair, Executive
Committee, Deans Council, University of
Calgary • Board of Governors, Elected and appointed by Minister
of Advanced Education, University
of Calgary (served briefly) • Special Advisor to the President
on the Academic Plan, University of Calgary • Senate, University of
Calgary, elected member, two terms • Vice-President’s
representative on Collective Bargaining, University of Calgary •
Chair, General Faculties Council ad-hoc Committee on Administrative
Assessments,
University of Calgary • Chair of the Board, Institute for
Advanced Policy Research, University of Calgary- 2005-
2006 • Latin American Research Centre (Calgary)- Board Chair and
Member of Board 2000-2007 • Centre for Military and Strategic
Studies (Calgary)- Chair Advisory Board 2000-2006 • Chair, Board of
Governors, Prairie Centre of Excellence on Immigration and
Integration
(SSHRC and Canada Citizenship and Immigration, includes 6
prairie universities), 1997- 2002.
• Member, Board of Directors, Van Horne Institute for
Transportation and Regulation • University representative to the
Calgary Chamber of Commerce 1997-2000. Served on the
Education Committee.
McGill University:
• Executive Council, Graduate Studies, McGill University •
Chair, University Library Committee, McGill University • Member of
ad-hoc committee to draft and implement University Grievance
Procedures,
McGill University • Member of ad-hoc committee to review ethics
guidelines for military contracts under non-
war conditions, McGill University • Chair, Program Committee,
Faculty of Arts, McGill University • Senate, McGill University,
elected member, several terms
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National/International Service: International
Elections/Development: Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade
• Civil Society Representative, Central American Security
Conference, Guatemala, June 2011
United Nations:
• Appointed by the Department of External Affairs and Elections
Canada to supervise elections in Nicaragua (1990), Cambodia (United
Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia, 1993).
Organization of American States:
• El Salvador – Election Observer, Congressional Elections
(1991), • Venezuela – OAS election coordinator for state of
Carabobo (1993).
Carter Presidential Center:
• Carter Center, Election Monitor, Venezuela Recall Referendum,
August 2004; Jamaica 1997; Nicaragua presidential Election 2006
United States Agency for International Development:
• Consultant:, United States Agency for International
Development and the Asia Foundation, Evaluation of the role of
US-funded NGOs in the July 1998 congressional elections in
Cambodia.
Canadian International Development Agency:
• Consultant, Canadian Foundation for the Americas, Canadian
International Development Agency and Department of Foreign Affairs
and International Trade for the Santiago Summit of the Heads of
State in the Americas, 1997. Prepared main paper used in national
consultations on hemispheric integration, democracy and human
rights.
• Consultant to the Canadian International Development Agency
review of developments in the Caribbean and Latin America, 1994.
Prepared background papers, briefing sessions and chaired three
seminars of regional participants, one in Barbados on the
Caribbean
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region; one in San José, Costa Rica on Central America; and one
in Santiago, Chile on South America.
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(Canada):
• Delegate and presenter to the Foreign Ministers, Special
Summit of the Americas, Monterrey, Mexico, January 2004
• Delegate (Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade), Summit of the
Americas, Quebec City, April 26-29, 2001
• Consultant, Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade, concept paper on
non-trade NAFTA issues, 1998.
• Member of the Group for a Foreign Policy Review of
Canada-Latin America Relations, Department of External Affairs and
Canada-Latin America Forum, Ottawa, 1994. Parliament of Canada:
House of Commons:
• Invited presenter, Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs
and International Trade on the Implications for Canada-United
States Relations of September 11/01. Fall 2001.
• Invited Presenter, Subcommittee on Human rights and
Development, Parliamentary
Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, on Human
rights and security issues in Colombia. February 2002.
• Invited Presenter, Parliamentary Committee on Canadian Foreign
Affairs, Review of
Policy on the Free Trade Area of the Americas, 1999.
• Invited panelist/presenter on Canada-United States Relations,
Canada, Joint
Parliamentary Committee Reviewing Canadian Foreign Policy,
Ottawa, 1994.
• Invited presenter on Canadian foreign policy in the Americas,
Subcommittee of the Joint Parliamentary Committee Reviewing
Canadian Foreign Policy, Calgary, 1994. Boards of Directors:
• Canadian Council for the Americas-Alberta (current)
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• CODE Inc., (Ottawa)- Member of Board of Directors, 2006-2007 •
Van Horne Institute for Transportation and Regulation,
1995-2006
• Latin American Research Centre, University of Calgary (since
2000) .
Other Professional and Community Service:
• Founding President, Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties
Association, Calgary
• Member, National Vanier Doctoral Fellowship Committee, Ottawa.
3 year term
• President, Canadian Institute for International Affairs
(Calgary Branch), 2001-2005
• Chair, Fundraising Committee, Royal Society of Canada, 1999 -
2002 and member of the Finance Committee, Academy II, 1996 -
2002.
• University Representative, Calgary Chamber of Commerce, 1994 -
2000.
• Member of Council, Canadian Historical Association, 1999
-2001; Chair, Nominating
Committee, 1992 - 1993. Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Committee,
1985 - 1986.
• Fulbright Program for Canada, Adjudication Committee Member
1990 – 1995, chair, 1993-95.
• Corey Prize Committee, Canadian Historical
Association/American Historical Association,
1991 - 1992.
• Member of Executive, Canadian Association of American Studies,
1989 -2000.
• Member of Academic Advisory Panel, Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1985 – 1987. Member and
Chair, Adjudication Committee for Research Grants in History and
History of Science, 1983 - 1986.
PUBLICATIONS AND CURRENT PROJECTS
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Books and Book Chapters Books:
• Not Just About Drugs: Colombian-United States Relations Since
1974 (Bogota: Random House Colombia, 2016)- in press in
Spanish.
• Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies (University of
Georgia Press and
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 4th edition, revised, 2008).
Co-author John H. Thompson
• Alfonso López Michelsen: Su vida, su época (Bogotá: Villegas
Editores, 2007). This is
the authorized and official biography of López Michelsen,
President of Colombia 1974-78.
• United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I
(McGill-Queen’s University Press,
2005). This is a new and significantly expanded edition of the
1985 volume. The original volume covered the period 1919-1947; the
new volume extended the analysis to 2004. Paperback edition
published 2007.
• Ambivalent Allies: The United States and Canada (Athens:
University of Georgia Press,
1994, 2nd revised edition, 1996; 3rd revised edition 2002);
Published in Canada by McGill-Queen's University Press),
co-authored with John H. Thompson, Duke University. Nominated for
Governor General's Prize for non-fiction, 1995.
• An International History of The Caribbean Basin, with G.S.
Mount (London: Routledge,
1998). • The United States and Colombia: Hegemony and
Interdependence (Athens: University
of Georgia Press, 1992).Spanish edition published in 1992 by
Tercer Mundo Editores, Bogotá, Colombia under the title: Aliados y
Distantes: Historia de las relaciones entre Colombia y EE. UU.
desde la independencia hasta la guerra contra las drogas.
• NAFTA in Transition, edited with Herman Konrad (Calgary:
University of Calgary
Press, 1995). This is a substantially revised edition of North
America Without Borders, published in 1992.
• Federalism and the New World Order: The Gorbachev Symposium on
The Future of
Federalism, edited with Roger Gibbins (University of Calgary
Press, 1994).
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• North America Without Borders?: Integrating Canada, the United
States and Mexico edited with an introduction, with Sheldon
Silverman and Herman Konrad (Calgary: University of Calgary Press,
1992).
• Canada and Latin America: Issues to the Year 2000 and Beyond,
edited with Mark O. Dickerson, with introduction (Calgary: The
International Centre, 1991).
• United States Foreign Oil Policy, 1918-1948: for Profit and
Security (Montreal and
Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985). Selected by
Choice as one of the fifteen outstanding books published that year
on North American history.
• La diplomacia de la modernizacion: Relaciones
Colombo-Norteamericanas, 1920-1940
(Bogotá: Banco Popular, 1989). • The Diplomacy of Modernization:
Colombian-American Relations, 1920-1940 (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1977). Book Chapters:
• “The Continuing Pull of the Polar Star: United
States-Colombian Relations in the Post-Cold War Era,” in Peter
Lambert, ed., Latin American Foreign Policies. London: Palgrave,
Macmillan 2011.
• “Great Expectations: America’s Approach to Canada,” in Michael
Behiels, ed., Transnationalism: Canada-United States History Into
the 21st Century. Montreal: McGill Queen’s, 2010.
• “Mexico y Canada: los desafios de la seguridad,”in Cristina
Rojas ed., La Seguridad Internacional en el siglo XXI. Mexico:
UNAM, 2010.
• “Engaging the United States: the department of foreign Affairs
and the Bilateral Relationship,” in Michael Carroll, ed., In the
National Interest: Canadian Foreign Policy and the Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Calgary: University of
Calgary Press, 2011.
• “The Historical Dimension,”in Richard S. Hillman and Thomas
D’Agonsino, eds., Understanding the Contemporary Caribbean
(Rienner, 2009)- revised edition
• “Colombian Foreign Policy, 1880-1930,” book chapter to be
published in the five volume
series América Latina en la Historia Contemporánea: Colombia,
Proyecto promovido por la Fundación Mapfre in Spain, editor Eduardo
Posada Carbó (Oxford University). In press 2009.
• “Western Hemisphere Energy Development: The continuing Search
for Security,” in
Sidney Weintraub, Alan Rugman and Gavin Boyd, eds., Free Trade
in the Americas: Economic and Political Issues for governments and
Firms (Cheltenham: Elgar, 2004).
• “The Historical Context,” in Richard Hillman and Thomas
D’Agostino, eds.,
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Understanding the Contemporary Caribbean (Boulder: Lynne
Rienner, 2003). A new revised edition is in press for 2009.
• “Cuba-United States Relations in the Post-cold War
Transition,” in Sahadeo Basdeo and
Heather Nicol, Canada, the United States and Cuba: An Evoloving
Relationship (Miami: North-South Center Press, 2002)
• “In Search of a Hemispheric Role: Canada and the Americas,” in
Norman Hillmer and Maureen Molot, eds., A Fading Power (Toronto:
Oxford University Press, 2002)
• “Relaciones Canadiense-Estadounidenses Desde 1945,” (with
Whitney Lackenbauer), in Maria Teresa Aya Smitmans, ed., Canada,
Colombia y las Americas (Bogota: Universidad Externado, 2001).
• “Canadian Commercial Relations With Colombia Since 1945,” in
Maria Teresa Aya, ed. Canada and Colombia (Bogota: Universidad
Externado, 2003).
• "Armand Hammer," in American National Biography (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999).
• Articles on "The Calvo Clause" and "The Good Neighbour
Policy," in The Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations (Oxford
University Press, 1997).
• "Managing Bilateralism: The United States and Mexico," in
Donald Barry, ed., Toward A North American Community (Westview
Press, 1995).
• "Sharing a Continent: Canadian-Mexican Relations Since 1945,"
Jean Daudelin and
Edgar J. Dosman, eds., Beyond Mexico (Ottawa: Carleton
University Press, 1995), pp. 15-34.
• "Canada and Latin America: Historical Developments and Recent
Trends," in H.P.
Klepak, ed., Canada and Latin American Security (Laval:
Meridien, 1994), pp. 41-62. • "Le Canada, Le Mexique et la
politique petroliere americaine au XXe siecle," in Dorval
Brunelle and Christian Deblock, eds., L"Amerique du Nord et
L'Europe communautaire: l'integration economique, l'integration
sociale? (Montreal: Les Presses de L'Université du Québec, 1994),
pp. 229-248.
• "La Política del libre comercio en America del Norte," in
Gustavo Vegas Canovas, ed., Mexico, Estados Unidos, Canadá (Mexico,
D.F.: Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de Mexico,
1993), pp. 101-111.
• "The Canadian and American Foreign Policy Traditions," in
David Thomas, ed., Differences that Count (Edmonton: Broadview
Press, 1993).
• "Los Estados Unidos de América y el futuro de la democrácia en
Centro-América," in
Monica Verea Campos and José Luis Barros Horcasitas, eds., La
Politica Exterior Norteamericana hacia Centroamerica: reflexiones y
perspectivas (México: Miguel Angel Porrua, 1991), pp. 379-94.
• "The State and Private Enterprise in United States-Latin
American Oil Relations," in
Alice Teichova, ed., Historical Studies in International
Corporate Business (Cambridge:
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Cambridge University Press, 1988).
• Editor for Canada, American Historical Association/University
of Massachusetts at Amherst project, A Guide to the Study of United
States History Outside the United States, 1945-1980 (New York:
Kraus International, 1985), 5 volumes.
• "Canada and the Development of Latin America," in Garth
Stevenson and Norman
Hillmer, eds., A Foremost Nation: Essays in Canadian Foreign
Policy (Toronto: Mclelland and Stewart, 1977).
Articles, Pamphlets and Review Essays
“Nationbuilding and Civil War: Diverging Views of State and
Society in Late 19th Century Colombia,” Journal of Military and
Strategic Studies, 16 no. 3 (2015), 92-114
“The 1970s Arab-OPEC Oil embargo and Latin America” H-Energy,
June 2013, editor, Tamara Nemeth. “Mexico y Canada: los desafios de
la seguridad,”in Maria Cristina Rosas ed., La Seguridad
Internacional en el siglo XXI. Mexico: UNAM, 2010, 127-140. (Mexico
and Canada: The Security Challenges”, in International Security in
the 21st Century. “Mexico: current and future political, economic
and security trends,” Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs
Institute, August 2010, with Harold Klepak. 15 pp. “Canada’s
National Security Challenges in the Caribbean and Latin America,”
Canadian International Council, Foreign Policy for Canada’s
Tomorrow, No. 7 (June 2010), 27 pp. “Canada, the Caribbean and
Latin America: Trade, Investment and Political Challenges,”
Canadian International Council, Foreign Policy for Canada’s
Tomorrow, no. 9 (August 2010), 37 pp. “Canada and the Americas:
Human Rights, Development and Foreign Aid,” Canadian International
Council, Foreign Policy for Canada’s Tomorrow, No. 8 (August 2010),
42 pp.
• “The American Foreign Policy Transition: Barack Obama in
Power,” Journal of Military
and Strategic Studies (Calgary Fall-Winter 2008/09), 1-24 •
“Canada, Latin America, Colombia and the Evolving Policy Agenda,”
Canadian Foreign
Policy, vol. 14, no 3 (2008), 29-43 .. • “The Tragedy of
American Diplomacy Revisited,” Latin American Research Review
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(2003) • “United States-Canada Cultural Relations,” Encyclopedia
of American Studies (2005)
• “Integrating Canada and the United States: An Historical
Framework,” Canadian Journal
of Policy Research, vol. 1, number 1 (Spring 2000), 32-39.
• “Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War World: The United Nations
and the Cambodian Elections of 1993,” Contemporary Security Policy,
16 (August 1995), 174-191.
• “Toward a New World Strategy: Canadian Policy in the Americas
into the Twenty-first
Century,” The FOCAL Papers (Ottawa, 1994).
• "The New Continentalism: Canada, Mexico and the United
States," American Review of Canadian Studies (Summer 1993), vol.
23, No 2, 267-281.
• "Oil Industry Development and Trade Liberalization in the
Western Hemisphere," The
Energy Journal, vol. 14, No. 3 (1993), 101-118.
• "Corporatism, Ideology and National Security in the Writing of
United States-Latin American Relations," Latin American Research
Review, vol. 27, no. 1 (1992), 205-218.
• "Canada, The United States and Mexico: The Development of
Trilateralism," Frontera
Norte, vol. 3 (jul.- dic., 1991), 121-137.
• "Occupational Health and Industrial Labour: The Case of Barre,
Vermont Granite Workers, 1870-1940," Canadian Review of American
Studies, vol. 22, no. 2 (Fall 1991).
• "Winners and Losers in the Canada-United States Free Trade
Agreement," (Spanish
version), in Teresa Gutierrez Haces, Experiencias del Tratado de
Libre Comercio, Canadá-Estados Unidos (Mexico: Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico, 1991).
• "Granitiers et collectivité: Barre, Vermont, 1870-1940, une
premiere approche," Histoire
Social/Social History, XXIII, no. 45 (May 1990), 133-152 (with
Albert Desbiens, University of Quebec in Montreal).
• "Realism and United States Foreign Policy," Canadian Review of
American Studies, vol.
21 (Summer 1990), 79-84.
• "Archival Materials in Canada for the Study of United States
Labour History," in Guide to the Study of United States History
(1985), with Gregory S. Kealey, Memorial University.
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• "The Guide to the Study of United States History in Canada,"
American Studies International (Fall 1985).
• "Harold Ickes and United States Foreign Oil Policy Planning,"
Harvard Business History
Review (Fall 1983).
• "The Colombian Press and the Cold War," the Canadian Journal
of Latin American Studies (Fall 1983).
• "Raw Materials and United States Foreign Policy," Reviews in
American History (Fall
1980).
• "The Americanization of Henry Kissinger," Canadian Review of
American Studies (Fall 1977).
• "The Development of Canadian Enterprise in Puerto Rico,"
Revista/Review
Interamericana, VII (Spring 1977).
• "The Barco Oil Concession in Colombian-American Relations,
1928-1932," The Americas, XXXIII (July 1976).
• "Latin America in 1975," Collier's Yearbook (New York:
Macmillan, 1976)
• "The International Corporation and American Foreign Policy,"
Canadian Journal of
History (August 1974).
• "Colombia, the United States and Inter-American Aviation
Rivalry," Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs
(August 1972).
Editorial ∇ Co-Editor: Canadian Institute for International
Affairs, International Journal (1992-1995) and Canadian Review of
American Studies (1992- 1999). V Member, Editorial Board, Latin
American Research Review (University of Texas, Austin) 2004-2009 ∇
Member, International Advisory Board, Journal of American
History.
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CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION AND INVITED LECTURES
• “North American Relations in the Post-9/11 Decade,” Centro de
Estudios Superiores
Navales, and the National Autonomous University, Mexico City,
September 2011. • “Canada-Mexico Relations: The Security
Challenges,” Centro de Estudios Superiores
Navales, and the National Autonomous University Mexico City,
September 2009. • “Canada and Latin American Security,” paper
presented at the Canada and Hemispheric
Security Conference, Queen’s University, June 2009. • “La
Política Exterior de la Administración Obama,” Universidad del
Rosario, Bogotá,
Colombia, February 2009. • “Engaging the United States: The
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
and Canadian-American Relations,” DFAIT conference, Calgary,
January 2009. • “The New United States Administration: What Can We
Expect in Latin American
policy?” Canadian Council for the Americas (Calgary branch),
December 2008. • “Ambivalent Allies Revisited,” Presentation at the
Canada Institute, Washington DC,
September 2008. • “Paramilitaries, the State and Human Rights:
The Los Uvos Killings in Cauca,
Colombia,” Joint Session of the Canadian Political Science
Association and Canadian Association of Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, Vancouver, June 2008.
• “Paramilitaries and Human Rights: The Case of Mapiripán
Colombia,” Latin American Research Centre conference on armed
groups, Calgary, Spring 2008.
• “The Bush Administration and Canada: What Went Wrong,” Centre
for North American Studies, American University, Washington DC,
November 2007.
• “Oil and Politics: Venezuela and Colombia,” Canadian Defense
and Foreign Affairs Institute, Calgary Petroleum Club, June
2006.
• “Nicaragua Shifts left: A Report on the November 2006 National
Elections,” Latin American Research Centre, University of
Calgary
• Universidad Externado de Colombia, A series of lectures on
United States foreign policy, September 2005.
• Ditchley Foundation Conference (Oxfordshire) on the Prospects
for the Second Bush Administration (invited participant), February
2005.
• “North American Energy Development,” Latin American Studies
Association Annual Meeting (October 2004)
• “Canada and the United States: Reflections on the Past,
Present and Future,” Society for the History of Canada (Ottawa,
Spring 2004)
• “Colombia and United States National Security Issues,”
Conference on Colombia and International Security, Universidad
Rosario, Bogota, Colombia, November 2003.
♦ Chair, Panel on NAFTA at Ten, Woodrow Wilson Center for
International Scholars, Washington, D.C. December 2002.
♦ “Colombia: The Politics of National Security,” Conference on
Democracy, Human rights and Security, Canadian Foundation for the
Americas and the International Development
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Research Committee, Ottawa, October 2002. ♦ “Human Rights and
National Security,” International Security Management
Association,
Annual conference, Calgary, June 2002. ♦ “Canada and the
Americas,” authors’ conference, Norman Paterson School of
International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, December
2001. ♦ Chair and Commentator, Session on the Colombian Crisis and
the international
community, Oxford University, May 2001 (invited). ♦ “United
States Foreign Policy and Colombian National Security,” Conference
on
Colombia, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Social, Paris,
November 2000 (invited). ♦ Presentation on Post-Secondary education
in Alberta, Human Resources and
Development Canada and Canadian Association of Community
Colleges sponsored conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on
Canada-Latin America educational linkages, November 2000.
• “The Third Pillar of Canadian Foreign Policy: Culture,”
Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Annual Conference,
Montreal, November 2000 (invited).
• “La Politica Exterior de los Estados Unidos y la Seguridad
Colombiana,” Conference, Colombia: Democracia y Paz, Universidad de
Antioquia, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia,
September 2000 (invited).
• Invited Panelist, “Hemispheric Experts, Canadian Policy and
the Future of the Americas,” Canadian Foundation for the Americas,
Ottawa, July 2000.
• Invited Panelist, “The Impact of the 2000 Mexican Presidential
Elections,” Canadian Foundation for the Americas, Ottawa, August
2000.
• “Canada, Los Estados Unidos, Colombia y la Seguridad
Hemisferica,” Fundacion Frederick Ebert, Universidad Externado de
Colombia, Bogotá, May 2000.
• “The Environmental and Labour Implications of NAFTA,” (Spanish
version),
Diplomatic Academy, Colombian Foreign Ministry, Bogotá, March
2000. • Invited participant, American Council of Learned Societies,
Philadelphia, May 1997. • “Trends in United States and Canadian
Foreign Policy Toward Latin America,” Foreign
Policy Institute, Bogotá, Colombia, February 1997. • “An
American Obsession: The United States and Cuba, From Revolution to
Helms-
Burton,” Lewis Thomas Lecture, University of Alberta, 1996. •
“NAFTA in Transition,” Plenary Presentation, Canadian Association
of American
Studies, Toronto, November 1996. • “Implementing NAFTA,” Hebrew
University, Canadian Studies Program, April 1996 • “Democratization
in Latin America: Recent Trends,” International Association of
Middle Eastern Studies, Amman, Jordan, April 1996. • “In Search
of An Indigenous Paradigm: The Writing of American Foreign Policy
in
Canada,” American Association of Canadian Studies, Seattle,
1995. • "Canada and the United States: Comparative Diplomatic
Histories," American
Association of Canadian Studies, Seattle, November 1995. • "The
Political Economy of North American Integration: An Historical
Perspective,"
Canadian Historical Association, Montreal, August 1995.
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• "Canada and Latin America," St. Francis Xavier University,
Distinguished Lecture Series, January 1995.
• "Canada and the United States in the Cold War Era, 1945-1988,"
St. Francis Xavier University Distinguished Lecture Series, January
1995.
• Three lectures on Canada, the United States and Latin America
as Scholar in Residence, Laurentian University, March 1995.
• "Managing Trilateralism: Canada, Mexico and the United
States," Toward the Third Millennium Conference, Ottawa, November
1994; sponsored by the Fulbright Program and the United States
Information Agency.
• "Canada, the United States and the Cold War, 1945-1960,"
Canadian Historical
Association, Calgary, 1994. • History and the Social Sciences,
Rome, October 1993, sponsored by the United States
Information Service, the Italian Encyclopedia, the Fulbright
Programme, and the American Academy in Rome. Delegate for Canada
from the Fulbright Programme as representative of the Canadian
Review of American Studies.
• Symposium organizer and host, Gorbachev Foundation/University
of Calgary Symposium on The Future of Federalism, Calgary, March
1993. The keynote speaker at this nationally televised conference
was H.E. Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
• "Recent Changes in the International System Affecting Canadian
Policy in the Western Hemisphere," policy planning session with the
Canada-Latin America Forum; Department of External Affairs and
Canadian International Development Agency- Ottawa, January
1993.
• "Canada-Latin American Relations: Reflections on Historical
Patterns and Recent
Trends," Conference on Inter-American Relations, College
Militaire Royale, Saint-Jean, sponsored by the College, The Arias
Foundation, the Canada-Latin America Forum and the Department of
External Affairs, December 1992.
• "The Political Economy of North American Integration: An
Historical Perspective,"
Conference on North American Integration, Centre for Refugee
Studies, York University, November 1992. Conference jointly
sponsored by the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education.
The paper was also presented as the American Studies Chair Lecture,
University of Calgary, December 1992.
• "Issues in North American Integration," Conference of Learned
Societies of Canada and
the United States, Toronto, November, 1992.
• "United States Strategic Raw Materials Policy Toward Canada
and Mexico in the Twentieth Century," Colloquium on European and
North American Integration, University of Quebec in Montreal,
October 1992.
• "NAFTA y las implicaciones para la educación superior,"
Conference on Mercosur,
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jointly sponsored by the Inter-American Organization for Higher
Education, Montevideo, August 1992
• "The Petroleum Industry and Trade Liberalization in the
Western Hemisphere," joint
meeting of the Inter-American Development and the Economic
Commission for Latin America (United Nations), Toronto, June
1992.
• "United States Foreign Policy and the New World Order,"
presented as the Chair in
American Studies Lecture, University of Calgary, March 1992;
also used as the basis for discussion at the Gorbachev Foundation
and the Canadian-United States Institute, Moscow, March 1992.
• "The Writing of United States Foreign Policy in Canada: In
Search of an Indigenous
Paradigm," European Association of American Studies, Seville,
Spain, April 1992.
• "Canada and the Development of Institutional Links With Latin
America," North-South Center, University of Miami, March 1992.
• "The Politics of North American Free Trade," Colloquium on
Canada and Mexico,
National Autonomous University of Mexico and separate
presentation at El Colegio de Mexico (published by the latter).
• "The United States and Latin America Confront the Cold War,"
University of Alberta,
Department of History Speakers' Series, September 1991.
• A series of 5 lectures (in Spanish) on United States and
Canadian foreign policy, presented to the Center for American
Studies, University of Havana, June 1991.
• "El Tratado del Libre Comercio entre Canada y los Estados
Unidos y las implicaciones
para Mexico," Universidad Ciudad Juraez, April 1991.
• "United States Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century," Chair
in American Studies Lecture, University of Calgary, April 1991.
• "Life, Labour and Death in an Industrial City: The
Occupational Health of Barre,
Vermont Granite Workers, 1880-1940," Canadian Association for
American Studies, Montreal, November 1990.
• "The United States, Colombia and Mutual Security: The Search
for the Vital Centre,"
Eisenhower Conference, University of Kansas, October 1990.
• "Winners and Losers in the United States-Canada Free Trade
Agreement: Some Tentative Conclusions," Conference on North
American Free Trade, Sponsored by the
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Party of National Action, Mexico City, October 1990.
• Discussant, Colloquium on North American Trade Relations,
Canada-Latin America Forum-Department of External Affairs, Ottawa,
September 1990.
♦"The United Nations Observation Process and the Nicaraguan
Elections of 1990: A Foot Soldier Reports," Luncheon Address,
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, University of
Maryland-College Park, August 1990. ♦"La Politica exterior de los
Estados Unidos y el futuro de la democracia en Centro-America,"
Conference on the United States and Central America, National
Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, July 1990. ♦"War,
Diplomacy and Hemispheric Security in Inter-American Relations,
1939-45," Canadian Historical Association, Victoria, B.C., June
1990. ♦"The Rise and Decline of American Power in the Twentieth
Century," Chair in American Studies Lecture, University of Calgary,
February 1990. ♦"The Nicaraguan Elections of February 1990,"
Distinguished Lecture Series, Royal Roads Military College,
Victoria, B.C., April 1990. ♦"United States Foreign Policy and the
Nicaraguan Elections of 1990," Concordia University, Department of
History, March 1990. ♦"The Historical Development of Foreign Oil
Policy in the United States, Canada and Mexico," Duke University,
Center for International Studies, September 1989. ♦ "Divergent
Visions of Progress: The United States, Colombia, and the Panama
Canal Debate," joint meeting of the American Studies Association
and the Canadian Association for American Studies, Toronto,
November 1989. ♦"The United States, Canada, and the International
Drug Crisis," President's Circle Lecture, University of Calgary,
November 1989. ♦"The United States and Colombian Cold War Policies:
Hemispheric Security and the Labour Movement," Institute for
Political Analysis and International Relations, National
University, Bogotá, Colombia, June 1989. ♦"Canada, The United
States and the Free Trade Agreement," Lewis and Clark School of
Law, International Law Society, Portland, Oregon, February 1989.
♦"The United States, Colombia, and the Control of Raw Materials
During World War II,"
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International Congress of Americanists, Amsterdam, July 1988.
♦"The United States, Colombia and the Cold War, 1945-1960,"
Canadian Historical Association, Windsor, June 1988. ♦"The
Intellectual Roots of United States Foreign Policy," Faculty of
Social Sciences, University of Calgary, March 1988. ♦Invited
Discussant, Conference on the Nationalization of the Mexican Oil
Industry, University of Texas, Austin, January 1988. ♦"Petroleum,
Corporatism and United States Foreign Policy: A Commentary,"
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, U.S. Naval
Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, June 1987. ♦"The State and Private
Enterprise in United States-Latin American Oil Relations Since
World War I," International Congress of Economic Historians, Bern,
Switzerland, August 1986. ♦"The State and Private Sector in United
States Foreign Oil Policy Planning, 1920-1948," Organization of
American Historians, New York, April 1986 (session with Otis Graham
and John Braeman). ♦"The Social History of a Vermont Industrial
Town: Barre, 1880-1940," (with Albert Desbiens), Société d'Histoire
de l'Amerique Francaise, Ottawa, October 1986. ♦Commentator,
session on United States Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century,
Canadian Historical Association, Winnipeg, June 1986. ♦Commentator,
session on the Development of the United States and Canadian
Petroleum Industries, Canadian Historical Association, Vancouver,
June 1984. ♦Chair, session on the Study of United States History in
Canada, Canadian Association of American Studies, Banff, Alberta,
October 1983. ♦"The Study of United States History in Canada,
1945-1980," American Historical Association, Washington, D.C.,
December 1982. ♦"The Red Line Revisited: The State and Private
Enterprise in United States Foreign Oil Policy," Canadian
Historical Association, Ottawa, June 1982. ♦"Harold Ickes and
United States Foreign Petroleum Policy Planning, 1939-1946,"
Organization of American Historians, Detroit, April 1981 (session
with Michael Hogan and Joan Hoff Wilson).
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♦Commentator, session on Foreign Business in Puerto Rico,
Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies, North Carolina,
April 1980. ♦Chairman, session on the United States in the
Twentieth Century, Canadian Historical Association, Saskatoon, June
1979. ♦Commentator, session on the Ante-bellum Political Economy in
the United States, Canadian Association for American Studies,
Montreal 1978. ♦Chairman, session on the United States, Canada, and
the Marshall Plan, Canadian Historical Association, Fredericton,
June 1977. ♦"The Barco Concession in United States-Colombian
Relations, 1928-1932," Organization of American Historians,
Chicago, April 1973. ♦"The International Corporation and American
Foreign Policy," Canadian Historical Association, Montreal, June
1972.
GRADUATE SUPERVISION
Doctoral Students – Theses Completed (Calgary and McGill)
• Alex McDougall, Political Science- comprehensive exams
complete, degree granted 2011. Comparative Politics
(co-supervisedwith Pablo Policzer)
• Andrew Lefebvre, “The United States, Panama and World War II,”
University of Calgary, degree granted June 2009.
• Gilbert Dore, "United States Congress and Foreign Aid to
Vietnam in the 1950s," (BA,
MA, Concordia). Completed and degree granted January 1993
(McGill). Dr. Dore teaches History at the University of Quebec in
Chicoutimi.
• Bernard Lemelin, "New York Politicians and the Debate Over
Immigration Policy, 1945-
1952," (MA, Laval University). Completed and degree granted June
1992 (McGill). Dr. Lemelin is a Professor of History at Laval
University.
• Rev. Michael Hall, "Anglo-American Naval Relations in the
1920s," (MA, Catholic
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University). Completed and degree granted June 1990 (McGill).
Dr. Hall is a teacher and administrator in Washington, D.C.
• Juan Alfonso Bravo, "The Chilean Nitrates Industry," (MA,
American University).
Completed and degree granted June 1991 (McGill). Dr. Bravo is an
administrator with the International Civil Aviation Authority.
• Timothy P. Maga, "France, The United States and the Refugee
Crisis, 1933-1945," (BA,
MA University of Wisconsin). Completed and degree granted 1981
(McGill); thesis published by Garland Press. Dr. Maga now holds an
Endowed Chair in American History in the United States.
• Geoffrey Barash, "Ralph Waldo Emerson and the
Transcendentalists," (ABD, McGill).
BA, Wisconsin, MA, Berkeley. Doctoral Field
Supervision/Supervisory Committees (McGill and Calgary)
• Brenan Smith, 1st year doctoral program, 2012- (sole
supervisor) • John Woitkowitz, Canada-United States relations,
thesis in progress (sole supervisor) • Adam Cahill- US doctoral
field supervision 2013- • Monique Dolak –US doctoral field
supervision 2013- • Alex McDougall, Political Science-
comprehensive exams complete, degree granted 2011.
Comparative Politics (co-supervise with Pablo Policzer) •
Clayton Dennison, CMSS- thesis at the writing stage: US-Latin
American Relations (on
leave from program) • Stu White- doctoral field supervision-
2010- • David Gallant- doctoral field supervision- 2010-
comprehensive exams completed • Luis Escobar- external examiner,
Haskayne, completed January 2009 • Edward Kaplan,
History-2004-2006- comprehensives and degree completed. • Alexander
Herd, 2005- comprehensives completed • Alexander McDougall
(Political Science, current)- comprehensives completed 2007 and
thesis in preparation • Percy Garcia, Resources and the
Environment Program (Calgary), 1999 -2005- co-
supervisor, completed • Pedro Marquez , Management and Political
Science (Calgary)- completed • Whitney Lackenbauer (Calgary)- field
supervisor, comprehensive exams and degree
completed • Alex Taylor del Cid (Calgary)-field supervisor,
member of examining committee, thesis
completed • Cameron Brookes (Calgary)-US field supervisor-thesis
completed • Anita Vandenberg (Calgary)- US field supervisor,
comprehensive exams completed • Wade Derksen, United States
Political Economy field supervisor- completed (Calgary)
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• David Bright, United States Political and Social History field
supervisor (Calgary)- comprehensive exams and thesis completed
• Daniel German, 19th Century U.S. Diplomatic History (McGill)-
US field supervisor- comprehensive exams completed
• Tamara Myers, 19th and 20th Century Social/Cultural History
field supervisor (McGill)- comprehensive exams completed
• Bernard Lemelin, 19th and 20th Centuries Diplomatic History
(McGill)-sole supervisor thesis completed, now professor at
Laval
• Paul Costello, 19th and 20th Centuries Cultural/Intellectual
History field supervisor (McGill)- comprehensive exams
completed
• Gilbert Dore, Modern US Diplomatic History (McGill)- sole
supervisor, thesis completed, now CEGEP instructor in Quebec
• Michael Childs, US Social History field supervisor (McGill)-
comprehensive exams and thesis completed
• Gemma Albanese, US Social History field supervisor (McGill)-
comprehensive exams completed
• Thomas O'Neill, Modern US Political History field supervisor
(McGill)- comprehensive exams and thesis completed
• Alfonso Bravo, Modern Latin America (McGill)- sole supervisor,
dissertation completed, worked at International Civil Aviation
Authority
• Francoise Noel, U.S. Agrarian/Social History field supervisor
(McGill)- comprehensive exams and thesis completed
• Allan Dever, US Economic History field supervisor (McGill)-
comprehensive exams and thesis completed
• Ruth Cameron, Modern U.S. History field supervisor (McGill) –
comprehensive exams completed
• Robert Sweeney, U.S. Labour History field supervisor (McGill)
- Comprehensive exams and thesis completed• Cecelia Danysk, U.S.
Social History (McGill)- comprehensive exams and thesis
completed, now professor in Washington State. • Bernard
Montigny, Modern U.S. History field supervisor (McGill)-
comprehensive
exams completed • Michael Hall, Modern U.S. Diplomatic History
(McGill)- sole supervisor, exams and
thesis completed. Head of Anselm Abbey School, Washington DC •
Timothy Maga, Modern U.S. Diplomatic History (McGill)- sole
supervisor, exams and
thesis completed, now holds chair in American history in the
United States • Geoffrey Barash, 19th Century Intellectual History
(McGill)- comprehensive exams
completed, thesis ABD Masters
> Jarrod Shaw– US Military history- 2011- (changed fields
after first year in program) > Willian King, History, sole
supervisor, thesis completed 2008
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> Timothy Cake, CMSS- member of examining committee-2009 >
Jarrad Ruminsky, History- member of examining committee >
LindsayTetlock, History, sole supervisor, completed 2008 >
Monica Heincke, Political Science and Management (with Harrie
Vredenburg),
completed 2006 > Lise Martineau, History, sole supervisor
(current) > Jonathan Ortiz, MA thesis, Political Science (sole
supervisor), complete > Jillian Dowding, Masters in Strategic
Studies (sole supervisor), complete
> Paul Chastko, MA thesis, History, completed 1997 (now holds
PhD from Ohio University) > Hector Parekh, MA thesis, History,
completed 1997 > Troy Fuller, MA thesis, History, completed 1997
> Jiajie Li, History, completed 1998; BA, Beijing > Giam
Tang, History, completed 1998 > Kevin Gloin, MA thesis,
completed, 1995 > Robert Noyes, History Department, McGill
University, supervisor, degree completed 1994 > Yufeng Zhang, MA
thesis completed 1992; BA, Beijing > Rachel Hershfield, MA
thesis completed 1993, Calgary > Scott Clapperton, MA thesis
completed 1993 (supervision with Sheldon Silverman) > Dennis
Rempe, MA thesis completed 1995; nominated for Governor General's
gold medal); now holds PhD from the University of Miami >
Douglas Plummer, MA thesis completed 1995 > Helen Morgan, MA
thesis completed 1986, McGill > Robert Fuhr, MA thesis completed
1984, McGill > William Wicken, MA thesis completed 1985, McGill
> Charles McNeil, MA thesis completed 1989, McGill
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Place of Birth: Toronto, Canada - September 9, 1944. Foreign
Languages: Spanish – spoken and reading (fluent); French - spoken
(moderate); reading fluent; Italian – reading and moderate speaking
knowledge. Areas of General Interest: x-country skiing, kayaking,
tennis, music, hiking, fly fishing, . Married: Dr. M. Anne
Katzenberg, FRSC, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary
Funding History: University Research Grants, Seed Grant, 7,948,
Project, Paramilitarism
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in Colombia (current 2012-) SSHRC Conference Grant- 2013- Latin
American Security- $27,000 Department of National Defence,
Conference Grant, Latin American Security, 2013, $18,000. Canadian
International Council, 2009-2010- $70,000- Canada and the Americas
Project SSHRC- March 2009- $22,594- Conference Grant, Policy
challenges for Canada and the United States Fulbright Foundation-
$25,000- Appointed to Fulbright Chair in North American Studies,
American University, Washington D.C. 2007 University Research
Grants Seed Grant, $5,000- for completion of the biography of
Alfonso Lopez Michelsen (Published June 2007)
CURRICULUM VITAESTEPHEN JAMES RANDALL FRSCProfessor of History
Emeritus/Faculty ProfessorUniversity of Calgary Consultant to the
Canadian International Development Agency review of developments in
the Caribbean and Latin America, 1994. Prepared background papers,
briefing sessions and chaired three seminars of regional
participants, one in Barbados on t...Editorial