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Michael Allen
20th-century US politics and culture, war and memory
Office: 1800 Sherman #410
Phone: 847-467-3979
E-mail: m-allen1
northwestern.edu
Michael Allen (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2003) is a historian of United States political culture, particularly curious about the ways in which war and memories of war reconfigured U.S. politics in the late twentieth-century. His book Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) examines the unprecedented level of concern regarding captive and missing Americans during and after the Vietnam War to interrogate the ways that official and nonstate actors constructed and contested the meaning of American defeat in Vietnam. A Kansas native, Michael returns to Northwestern after five years on the faculty at North Carolina State University.
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