Academics

Faculty & Staff

Paul Atwood, PhD

  • Senior Lecturer of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
  • Telephone: 617-287-5863
  • Office Location: Healey Library,10,0027A

Degrees

PhD Boston University

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • War and Empire: The American Way of Life. Pluto Press, 2010.
  • With Camacho, Paul R. "A Review of the Literature on Veterans Published in Armed Forces & Society, 1974-2006." Armed Forces & Society 33.3 (2007): 351-381.
  • Sticks And Stones: Living With Uncertain Wars (co-editor). University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.
  • "Teaching about War in a Time of War." Radical Teacher 72 (March 22, 2005): 31-37.
  • "Unfinished Symphony (Film)." Public Historian 24.3 (2002): 92.
  • "Vietnam and Other American Fantasies. (Reviews)." Radical Teacher (Summer 2001): 38(5).

Additional Information


Professor Atwood is currently serving as the Interim Director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences.

Research Interests:

U.S Foreign Relations, 20th-century American Political and Social History

Courses Taught:

AMST 204 The Forties
AMST 206 The Sixties
AMST G240 War in American Culture
AMST 312 The U.S. in the Middle East, WWII to Present