John F. Kennedy and Africa: When Colonialism Met the Cold War

Monday, February 19
6:30pm
Welcome Center, 131 Rowan Boulevard
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Prize-winning historian Thomas “Tim” Borstelmann will discuss John F. Kennedy and his diplomatic initiatives in the 1960s with several newly independent African nations. 

The lecture is the third event during Rowan’s Centennial spotlighting Operation Uganda, an ambitious humanitarian initiative launched by students at then-Glassboro State College in 1962 to support the education and independence of the people of Uganda. 

The Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of Modern World History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Borstelmann focuses his research on the intersection of United States domestic history and international history.

Author or co-author of five books, Borstelmann received the Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association for his latest book, “Just Like Us: The American Struggle to Understand Foreigners” (Columbia University Press, 2020).

Before the event, the annual History Department Student Research Poster Session will be held in the atrium of the Welcome Center starting at 5:30 p.m.