James C. Schneider
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James Schneider, Associate Professor of History, received a B.A. from St. Lawrence University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Schneider has taught courses in his areas of professional specialization-20th century America and American Foreign Relations-as well as both halves of the introductory Readings courses in US history. Those Readings courses formed part of the foundation of our program until the recent revision in the curriculum. He has also taught the Historical Approaches and Interpretations foundation class. His dissertation on the foreign policy debate in America prior to Pearl Harbor was subsequently published to favorable reviews. Since then he has published a number of short pieces on a variety of topics, while working on a major project concerning inception, development, and demise of the Model Cities program of the Great Society era. That project is nearing completion. Both major research projects have informed his graduate teaching. Until fairly recently, Dr. Schneider was the only specialist on US history after the Progressive Era. The arrival of several additional faculty members with strengths in the 20th century have allowed him to focus more directly on US foreign relations and the wider subject of American interaction with other nations, peoples, and cultures. One of his goals is to incorporate a more comparative perspective into the study of those subjects.