Michelle Paranzino, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Strategy and Policy Department
Biography
Michelle Paranzino earned her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied U.S. foreign policy, Soviet history and Cold War Latin America. She has published numerous articles and book chapters and is the author of "The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War: A Short History with Documents" (Cambridge: Hackett, 2018). She grew up in Los Angeles, earning her B.A. in history at UC Santa Cruz and an M.A. in history at Cal State Northridge. She has held fellowships at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College and is currently working on a book about the war on drugs.
Contact Information
Areas of Expertise
- Cold War
- Counterdrug Operations
- Diplomacy
- Foreign Policy
- Intel
- International Relations
- Irregular Warfare
- Latin America
- Russia
- United Nations
Professional Highlights
William Appleman Williams Junior Faculty Research Grant, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Security and US Foreign Policy, Dartmouth College
Short-term Research Fellow, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
Clements Center Grant in History, Strategy, and Statecraft
Education
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2014, History
M.A., California State University Northridge, 2007, History
B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz, 2003, History
External Memberships and Associations
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
American Historical Association
Latin American Studies Association
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