Melvin Small

Melvin Small
Born	March 14, 1939 (age 81) New York City, New York, U.S.
Academic background
Alma mater	Dartmouth College (BA) University of Michigan (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Post-war era American foreign policy Public opinion Vietnam War Antiwar movement
Institutions	Wayne State University

Melvin Small (born March 14, 1939 in New York City) is an American academic working as a distinguished professor emeritus of history at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Education

Small earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Career

Over the past two decades, Small has concentrated his research and writing on the Post-war era, with an emphasis on the Vietnam War, the antiwar movement, and Presidents Johnson and Nixon. A historian of American foreign policy, he studies public opinion, domestic politics and foreign policy, a subject reflected in his recent monographs and several theoretical articles. He was a co-investigator on the quantitative IR project, the Correlates of War, WSU's NCAA faculty advisor, and department chair. He also worked as a restaurant reviewer for the Metro Times.

A former president of the Peace History Society, Small has written the award-winning Johnson, Nixon and the Doves (1988), Democracy and Diplomacy (1996), The Presidency of Richard Nixon (1999), Antiwarriors (2002), and At the Water's Edge (2005), among other books.

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Curriculum Vitae