Richard Werking, Professor

U.S. Diplomatic & 20th Century America

Email:  rwerking@usna.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin, US History
• M.A. - University of Wisconsin, US History
• M.A. - University of Chicago, Librarianship
• B.A. - University of Evansville, History & Political Science
• Diploma, Leadership Preparation Course, Noncommissioned Officer Academy, Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas

Military Service:

Six months active duty, U.S. Army; three-plus years active reserve, Indiana National Guard.  Heavy weapons infantry (mortars, recoiless rifles).  Sergeant.

Selected Publications:

"The Library as an Instrument of Education: Appreciating Evan Farber," in Evan Ira Farber, College Libraries and the Teaching/Learning Process: Selections from the Writings of Evan Ira Farber (Richmond, IN: Earlham College Press, 2007).

"Encounters and Other People's Mail: Teaching the History of U.S. Foreign Relations," Passport (August 2005).

"Vessels and Voyagers: Some Thoughts on Reading and Writing, Books and Libraries," Portal: Libraries and the Academy (Johns Hopkins U. Press: January 2003).

Choice cover photograph (July/August, 1998).

"How Teachers Teach, How Students Learn: Doing History and Opening Windows," Library Hi Tech (Issue 35, 1991).

"State Department Bureaucratization and the Vesting of Economic Interests: Toward Clearer Thinking and Better History," Administrative Science Quarterly (arch, 1983), with Fred V. Carstensen.

"Department of State," in Donald R. Whitnah, ed., Government Agencies (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1983).

"Bureaucrats, Businessmen, and Foreign Trade: The Origins of the U.S. Chamber of Comemrce," Business History Review (Autumn, 1978).

"The Boxer Indemnity Remission and the Hunt Thesis," Diplomatic History (Winter, 1978).

"Selling the Foreign Service: Bureaucratic Rivalry and Foreign-Trade Promotion, 1903-1912," Pacific Historical Review (May, 1976).

"'Reformation Is Our Only Preservation': Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft," William and Mary Quarterly (April 1972).

The Master Architects: Building the United States Foreign Service, 1890-1913 (The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 1977).

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Book reviews in College & Research Libraries; The Library Quarterly; American Historical Review; American Journal of Sociology; Wisconsin Magazine of History, and Business History Review.

Other Professional Activities

"Libraries and the Teaching of Irregular Warfare: Some Present and Future Possibilities," presentation at the Conference on "Pedagogy for the Long war: Teaching Irregular Warfare," Quantico, VA, October-November 2007.

A founding member of the Teaching Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.