Alexander DeConde

Who is Alexander DeConde?

Alexander DeConde is a historian of United States diplomatic history. Raised in California, he attended San Francisco State College for his B.A. He received his M.A. and Ph.D from Stanford University, where we worked under the direction of Thomas A. Bailey. He taught at Stanford, Whittier College, and Duke University. From 1957 to 1961, he was professor of history at the University of Michigan. He subsequently joined the history department at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he remained to his retirement. He helped to establish the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.