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Education:
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1977
M.A., University of Connecticut, 1972
B.A., Hamilton College, 1970
Biographical
Information:
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from Hamilton College (B.A., 1970) and the University of Connecticut (Ph.D., 1977), his field of research interest is in U.S. foreign relations, with a special interest in U.S. relations with Latin America. Rabe has written The Road to OPEC: United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919-1976 (1982) and Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism (1988). He has also edited, with Thomas G. Paterson, Imperial Surge: The United States Abroad, The 1890s-Early 1900s (1992). Journals such as Diplomatic History, Irish Studies in International Affairs, Latin American Research Review, Peace and Change, Mid-America, and Presidential Studies Quarterly have published his scholarly articles. He has also written numerous book chapters, book reviews, and encyclopedia articles on U.S. and Latin American history. His book-length study, The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1999. Rabe has also completed an extended essay on the foreign policies of John Kennedy for Debating the Kennedy Presidency (2003), with James Giglio. Rabe’s newest study, U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in October 2005.
Foundations and research institutes have supported Rabe’s research. He has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Historical Association, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, Rockefeller Archive Center, and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute among others. Scholars have also recognized his work. The Southwest Council on Latin American Studies awarded him the Harvey O. Johnson Prize for his study on U.S. relations with Venezuela. Eisenhower and Latin America won the Stuart L. Bernath Prize from the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). In 1988, SHAFR also recognized Rabe with the Bernath Lecture Prize, which is given to the outstanding younger scholar working in international history.
Professor Rabe has lectured widely at home and abroad. In 1990-91, he received a Fulbright Fellowship and served as the Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College, Dublin, Ireland. In addition to teaching in Ireland, Rabe has lectured in Argentina, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Northern Ireland, Trinidad and Tobago, and Wales, and in 2003 and 2004 he led the State Department-sponsored “Colloquiums on American Studies” held in Recife and Brasília, Brazil. In 2006, he led additional State-Department-sponsored “Seminars on American Studies” in Buenos Aires and Cordoba, Argentina. He has commented on international relations on numerous radio and television programs in the United States. Rabe has also been a guest lecturer at Clark University, Hamilton College, Louisiana Tech University, Northeastern Illinois University, Ohio University, Ohio State University, Texas Christian University, and the University of Connecticut. In 2004, he held the Skotheim Lectureship at Whitman College. In 2005/06, Rabe served, under auspices of the Fulbright Program, as the Bicentennial Chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. In 2006, he also taught at the University of Turku in Finland and lectured at universities and conferences in Prague, Berlin, and Sofia, Bulgaria.
At the University of Texas at Dallas, where he has taught since 1977, Rabe offers courses on U.S. foreign relations, U.S. relations with Latin America, the American Experience in Vietnam, U.S. history since 1945, and U.S. historiography. He also has a teaching field on slavery and has edited Slavery in American Society (1993), with Richard D. Brown and Lawrence Goodwyn. Rabe has taught perhaps more undergraduate students than any other professor in the history of the university. He has won three awards for distinguished teaching. For 1999-2000, Rabe was named the Kusch Lecturer, the highest honor the university annually bestows upon one of its faculty members. The Kusch Lectureship is named for Polykarp Kusch, Nobel Laureate and UT-Dallas Regental Professor of Physics from 1972 to 1982.
A member of several professional organizations, Rabe has had a leadership role in SHAFR. He serves on the organization’s Executive Council and has been on the editorial board of Diplomatic History.
Rabe is married, with one daughter. His wife, Genice A. G. Rabe, is an attorney specializing in labor law and employment discrimination. Stephen Rabe is also a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. |
