Michael Hogan (academic)

Michael Hogan with UConn's mascot, Jonathan the Husky

Michael J. Hogan (born 1943)^[1] is an American academic who has served in the administrations or on the faculty of many American universities, wrote or edited numerous books, contributed as an adviser to the U. S. Department of State and several documentaries.

Early life

Born and raised in Waterloo, Iowa, Hogan earned his B.A. degree at the University of Northern Iowa, where he majored in English with minors in history and classics; his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees were conferred by The University of Iowa.

Academic career

Teaching

Hogan’s first university faculty positions were at Stony Brook University and at the University of Texas, Austin. He then taught at Miami University for nine years before accepting what would turn out to be his last full-time teaching position at Ohio State University, in 1986. In 1993, Hogan was elevated to be the chair of the Department of History at Ohio State, which position he held until he moved into the administrative side of academia.

Administration

In 1999, Hogan was made dean of the College of Humanities at Ohio State, and in 2001, he was given an additional position as executive dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences. During his tenure in that position, the position of executive dean evolved into a separate free-standing office with oversight of five colleges and forty-one departments.

In 2003, Hogan accepted a position as the Executive Vice President and Provost of The University of Iowa. While in Iowa City, he also held the position of F. Wendell Miller Professor of History,

On September 14, 2007,Hogan became the 14th president of the University of Connecticut, succeeding Philip Austin.^[2] President Hogan's image was featured at strategic locations on the UConn campus to make the President seem more "accessible" to the students; his image was placed on six life-sized cardboard cutouts purchased by UConn for ca. $3500.^[3]

On May 11, 2010, Hogan was selected to succeed B. Joseph White as the 18th President of the University of Illinois,^[4] and he resigned his position as President of the University of Connecticut, effective June 30. ^[5]

Books authored or edited

A specialist in the history of American diplomacy, President Hogan is the author or editor of nine books and a host of scholarly articles and essays. His publications include Informal Entente: The Private Structure of Cooperation in Anglo-America Economic Diplomacy, 1918-1928 (University of Missouri, 1977) and The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952 (Cambridge, 1987), which received the Stuart L. Bernath Book Award of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association, and the Quincy Wright Prize of the International Studies Association. His most recent books include A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954 (Cambridge, 1998), and his edited volume, Paths to Power: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations to 1941 (Cambridge, 2000). He is currently working on a history of his discipline, under contract with the University of Michigan Press, and on a book dealing with the Cold War in American history and memory.

Other accomplishments

President Hogan served for 15 years as editor of Diplomatic History, an international journal of record for specialists in diplomacy and foreign affairs. He has served on numerous editorial boards and as vice president and president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He has also served on the U. S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on Diplomatic Documentation, which he chaired for three years, and has worked as a consultant for a number of BBC documentaries and for the PBS special George C. Marshall and the American Century.

President Hogan has been a fellow at the Harry S. Truman Library Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and has served as Louis Martin Sears Distinguished Professor of History at Purdue University. His scholarship has been recognized by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, which awarded him the Bernath Lecture Prize in 1984, and Ohio State University, which presented him with its Distinguished Scholar Award in 1990, the highest award for scholarly distinction conferred on members of the faculty.

President Hogan and his wife Virginia have four adult children. ^[2]

References

1. ^ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6563.1999.tb01034.x/abstract
2. ^ ^{a b} "Office of the President - University of Connecticut". Link information has changed. http://president.uconn.edu/. Retrieved 2010-11-30. 
3. ^ http://articles.courant.com/2010-04-21/news/hc-hogan-cutouts-uconn.artapr21_1_cardboard-cutouts-president-hogan-university-spokesman-michael-kirk
4. ^ http://www.dailyillini.com/news/2010/05/11/uconn-leader-to-be-named-new-ui-president
5. ^ http://www.courant.com/news/education/hc-uconn-hogan-candidate-illinois-0511,0,748795.story

External links

• Office of the President - University of Connecticut
• University of Illinois Michael Hogan Biography

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