Victor Nemchenok
Fields & Specialties
U.S. Diplomatic History, North-South Relations, Globalization and International DevelopmentEducation
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), U.S. History, April 2009
Major Field: American Foreign Relations
Minor Field: Modern Middle East
Dissertation: "A Dialogue of Power: Development, Global Civil Society, and the Challenge
to International Order, 1970-1988"
Advisor: Melvyn P. Leffler
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
M.A. in U.S. History, August 2007
Thesis: "In Search of Stability Amid Chaos: U.S. Policy Toward Iran, 1961-1963"
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
B.A. in History, May 2005
Thesis: "Beyond the Guise of Ideology: Legal Pragmatism in Justice Harry Blackmun's
Free Speech Jurisprudence"
Advisor: Richard Polenberg
Peer Reviewed Articles
"'That So Fair a Thing Should Be So Frail:' The Ford Foundation and the Failure of Rural
Development in Iran, 1953-1964," Middle East Journal 63, no. 2 (Spring 2009): 261-284.
"'These People Have an Irrevocable Right to Self-Government': United States Policy and the
Palestinian Question, 1977-1979," Diplomacy & Statecraft 20, no. 4 (December 2009): 595-618.
"In Search of Stability Amid Chaos: U.S. Policy Toward Iran, 1961-1963," Cold War History 10, no. 3
(August 2010): 341-369.
Grants and Fellowships
Albert Gallatin Fellowship in International Affairs (declined)
University of Virginia, April 2011
International Dissertation Research Fellowship (declined)
Social Science Research Council, April 2011
Dissertation Research Fellowship (declined)
American-Scandinavian Foundation, March 2011
Summer Research Fellowship
Society of Fellows, University of Virginia, February 2010
Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, February 2010
Dissertation Planning Grant
American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, January 2010
Bankard Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Bankard Fund for Political Economy, University of Virginia, January 2010
Michael J. Hogan Foreign Language Grant
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, November 2009
Research Travel Grant
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, October 2009
Samuel F. Bemis Dissertation Research Grant
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, October 2009
Graduate Student Fellowship
University of Virginia, 2006-2009
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Fellowship
Middlebury College, June 2008
Pari Ahmadi Scholarship (declined)
Middlebury College, June 2008
Summer Foreign Language Fellowship
University of Virginia, June 2007
Awards and Honors
Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Virginia, January 2010
Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows
University of Virginia, 2009-2010
Bernard and Fannie Lang Prize for Best Honors Thesis in U.S. History
Cornell University, May 2005
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
History of American Foreign Relations, Fall 2009
History of Modern Russia, Spring 2009
History of Modern India, Fall 2008
History of the Modern Middle East, Spring 2008
History of Genocide, Fall 2007
Drill Instructor, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages
and Cultures, University of Virginia
Introductory Arabic, Fall 2008
Languages
Russian: native fluency
Arabic: advanced reading and speaking competence
French: intermediate reading and speaking competence
Service and Professional Affiliations
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Manuscript Reviewer, Cold War History and Essays in History
