Brian VanDeMark  

•  Phone: (410) 293-6265
•  E-mail: vandemar@usna.edu
•  Personal Website: www.brianvandemark.net
•   Department of History
      United States Naval Academy
      572 Holloway Road 
      Annapolis, MD 21402

Education

• University of California, Los Angeles (1988)
  • Ph.D., History
• University of Texas, Austin  (1983)
  • M.A., History
• University of Texas, Austin  (1981)
  • B.A., Plan II

Major Publications

• Road to Disaster:  A New History of America's Descent into Vietnam (HarperCollins, 2018; paperback ed., 2019)

• American Sheikhs: Two Families, Four Generations, and the Story of America's Influence in the Middle East (Prometheus Books, 2012)

• Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb (paperback ed., Little Brown, Back Bay Books, 2005)

• Robert S. McNamara with Brian VanDeMark, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (Times Books, 1995; paperback ed., Vintage Books, 1996)

• Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War (Oxford University Press, 1991; paperback ed., 1995)

• Research assistant to Clark Clifford with Richard Holbrooke, Counsel to the President: A Memoir (Random House, 1991; paperback ed., Anchor Books, 1992)

Research Areas

• International History
• American Diplomatic History

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor to Professor, U.S. Naval Academy (1990 - Present)
  
  
• Visiting Fellow, St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford (Spring 2002)
  
  
• Freeman Professor of American History, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Nanjing, China (1999-2000)