John Day Tully
Associate Professor of History
Social Studies Coordinator
Department of History
206 DiLoreto Hall
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050
Phone: (860) 832-2812
Fax: (860) 832-2804
Email: tullyj@ccsu.edu
Areas of Specialization: American Foreign Relations,
20th-century U.S., Modern Ireland, Social Studies Education
John Day Tully received his B.A. in economics from
Boston University in 1989 and his M.A. in history from Central Connecticut State
University in 1995. From 1998 until 2004, he was the founding director of the
Harvey Goldberg Program for Excellence in Teaching at The Ohio State University.
He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State in 2004 and joined the CCSU history
faculty that year.
Dr. Tully's teaching interests include American
Foreign Relations, modern America, and modern Ireland. He also teaches the
Methods of Social
Studies at the Secondary Level as part of the
professional education program. In 2009, he won both the Connecticut State
University Board of Trustees Teaching Award for CCSU and the CSU System-Level
Trustees Teaching Award, becoming the first CSU system teaching award winner at
the university. Dr. Tully serves as the National Director of Secondary Education
for the
Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations and is the Academic Director of
American Voices, a Teaching American History grant from the U.S. Department
of Education. He is also vice president of the
Connecticut Council for the Social Studies.
His first book, Ireland and Irish Americans,
1932-1945: The Search for Identity, will be published by Irish Academic
Press in 2010. He has also written on public diplomacy, the Vietnam War, and
Ronald Reagan's foreign policy. In May 2008 he was a Visiting Fellow at the
Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. His current
research project examines Robert F. Kennedy's views of American foreign policy.
For more information on the history/social studies
secondary education program,
click here.
Professor Tully also maintains an
individual web page.
Selected publications:
- Ireland and Irish Americans, 1932-1945
(Dublin:
Irish Academic Press, forthcoming).
- Ethnicity, Security, and Public Diplomacy: Irish
Americans and Irish Neutrality in World War II, in
The United States and Public Diplomacy: New
Directions in Cultural and International History,
eds. Brian Etheridge and Kenneth Osgood. (Boston: Brill
Publishing, forthcoming).
- "Memory and the Vietnam War," in Culture Wars: An
Encyclopedia of Issues, Voices, and Viewpoints, ed.
Roger Chapman (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2009).
- "The Foreign Policy of Ronald Reagan," in
Retrieving the American Past: A U.S. History Reader
(Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2008).
- "Globalization and a Wal-Mart World: The Documents,"
Connecticut History 45 (Fall 2006): 278-85.
- "Against the Tide: The Unfortunate Life of Steamboat
Inventor John Fitch in the Social Studies/History
Classroom," Connecticut History 44 (Spring 2005):
122-25.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: History, Memory, and a Hot
Spot in the Cold War (Ann Arbor: Xanedu, 2000).
(Internet coursepack)
- The Iran-Contra Scandals: National Security Archive
Sources (Ann Arbor: Xanedu, 2000). (Internet
coursepack)
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