Michael Franczak
Department of History, Boston College
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
franczam@bc.edu
Education
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Boston College, 2012-present
 Dissertation Title: “U.S. Foreign Policy in the North-South Dialogue, 1974-1982”
 Committee: James Cronin (advisor), Seth Jacobs (advisor), Prasannan
Parthasarathi
 Exam Fields: Economic, International, U.S. Foreign Policy
B.A. in History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2011
 Highest Honors in History and High Distinction
 Senior Thesis: “The United States, Great Britain, and the Postwar Economic
Order, 1941-1947”
Fellowships and Awards
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Research Travel Grant, Karnes Archives and Special Collections Center, Purdue
University Libraries, February 2016
Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant, Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations, December 2015
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Travel Grant, November 2015
Graduate Fellow, Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy, Boston College,
September 2013-present
o (Inaugural) Professor Jonathan Trejo-Mathys Fellow, September 2015present
Presidential Fellowship for Doctoral Research, Boston College, 2012-present
Best Thesis in U.S. History, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, 2011
Publications
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“'Asia' at Bretton Woods: India, China, and Australiasia in Comparative
Perspective,” The UN and the Postwar Global Order: Bretton Woods in
Perspective, eds. Giles Scott-Smith and J. Simon Rolfe (forthcoming, Palgrave
2017)
Review of Spencer Mawby’s Ordering Independence: The End of Empire in the
Anglophone Caribbean, 1947-69 (New York: Palgrave, 2012), in H-Net-Decol,
June 2015 (http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=44205)
“Hamid Karzai” and “Nouri al-Maliki,” entries for Encyclopedia of American
Military History (Facts on File, 2014)
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“Atlantic Charter,” “Marshall Plan,” “Lend-Lease,” “GATT,” and “Arsenal of
Democracy,” entries for Encyclopedia of American Imperialism and
Expansionism (ABC-CLIO, 2014)
Conference Presentations
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“A Forgotten Exchange: The Raj at Bretton Woods,” 43rd Annual Conference on
South Asia, October 16-19, 2014, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“'Asia' at Bretton Woods: India, China, and Australiasia in Comparative
Perspective,” Symposium on “The UN and the Post-War Global Order: Bretton
Woods in Perspective,” Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands,
September 17-19, 2014
“Plus Ça Change...?: Power, Ideas, and the Global South at Bretton Woods,”
Society for U.S. Intellectual History, November 1-3, 2013, University of California,
Irvine
“Multilateralism, Nationalism, and Imperialism: The Political Economy of Early
Postwar Sterling Policy, 1944-1954,” Northeast Conference on British Studies,
October 4-5, 2013, University of Connecticut, Storrs
“Contingencies in the Bretton Woods Negotiations: A Reappraisal in Light of New
Evidence,” Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, March 23-24, 2013,
Lehman College, Bronx, NYC
Teaching and Professional Service
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Teaching Assistant, Boston College, September 2013-May 2015
o Democracy, Rights, and Empire I-II
o Latin America in the World, I-II
o (Grader) America’s War in Vietnam
Symposium co-organizer, “The Power of Money,” Clough Center for
Constitutional Democracy, Boston College, April 25, 2014
o Panelists: Harold James (History, Princeton), Benjamin Cohen (Political
Science, UC-Santa Barbara), Jonathan Kirshner (Political Science,
Cornell)