Dartmouth Events

On Thursday, January 21, Professor John Thompson of University College Dublin will deliver a talk titled “Explaining Conservative Politics in America” at 4PM in the Wren Room of the Sanborn House.

Jack Thompson is Lecturer at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and his MA from Johns Hopkins University.  

Research Interests

Dr. Thompson’s research focuses on American political culture – broadly defined - especially on the right, as it influences foreign and domestic policy and transatlantic relations 

Books

Progressive Politics in America: Past, Present, and Future, co-edited with David Woolner, forthcoming from Oxford University Press

Republican Power: Theodore Roosevelt and America in World Politics, 1882-1919 (forthcoming)

America’s Transatlantic Turn: Theodore Roosevelt and the “Discovery” of Europe (co-edited with Hans Krabbendam) Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

“Progressive Politics and the Rise of the Modern Right,” in Progressive Politics in America: Past, Present, and Future, forthcoming from Oxford University Press

Introduction to a special issue in the Journal of Gilded Age Politics and Economics on Theodore Roosevelt and Europe (January 2016)

“The Politics of Transatlantic Relations,” Hans Krabbendam and John M. Thompson, eds., America’s Transatlantic Turn: Theodore Roosevelt and the “Discovery” of Europe (2012)

“Theodore Roosevelt and the Press,” in Serge Ricard, ed., A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt, New York: Wiley-Blackwell (September 23, 2011)

 “‘Internationalists in Isolationist times’: Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and a Rooseveltian Maxim,” with J. Simon Rofe, Journal of Transatlantic Studies 9 (March 2011): 46-62

 “‘Panic-Struck Senators, Businessmen and Everybody Else’: Theodore Roosevelt, Public Opinion and the Intervention in Panama,” Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 32 (Winter/Spring 2011): 7-28

Current Projects

Dr. Thompson is currently working on a study of Arthur Vandenberg.  The project uses Vandenberg, the Republican Senator from Michigan who played a key role in crafting the Cold War consensus, as a vehicle for exploring the ways in which partisan politics and foreign policy were interlinked in the thinking of Republican leaders in an era dominated by the Democratic Party.