Dr. Nicole Sackley

Assistant Professor of History

327 Ryland Hall
Office: (804) 289-8338
Fax: (804) 287-1992

On Leave 2008-09

My current research focuses on the international role of American ideas and expertise.  I am interested in how Americans without official status (such intellectuals, artists, journalists, and scientists) shaped the interaction between the United States and the World in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  I am also interested in how expert knowledge is debated and constructed across national borders. 

I am completing a book project entitled Passage to Modernity: American Experts and the Pursuit of Development in the Cold War.  This study examines the history of American experts who sought to modernize the post-1945 world.  It traces the origins of the postwar development project to India and examines how social scientists--from economists to agronomists--saw a strategy for winning the Cold War in the practice of social science abroad.

Teaching:
United States and the World
American Cultural and Intellectual History
Transnational Social Reform
Tobacco
Core Course

Research:
United States and the World
U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History

Education:
Ph.D., Princeton University
B.A., Brown University