1. Aaron T. Dowdall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of History
455 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53715
Email: atdowdall@gmail.com
http://AaronDowdall.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin, degree will be conferred May 2017
Dissertation: “‘We Saw Israel’: American and Israeli Workers in the Middle East
and Africa, 1948-1968,” defended September 7, 2016
Examination Fields: U.S. history, U.S. foreign relations. U.S.-Israeli relations
Minor Field: Racial and ethnic politics
Supervised by: Brenda Gayle Plummer (advisor), William Jones
(University of Minnesota), Carol Anderson (Emory University), Tony
Michels, Nadav Shelef
M.A., U.S. Foreign Relations History, University of Missouri, 2009
Thesis: “Henry Kissinger and the African Bureau”
Supervised by: Carol Anderson
B.A. in History, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Missouri, 2006
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, History 434: American Foreign Relations since 1898, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2015
Teaching Assistant, (Instructor: Sean Dinces) History 249: Sport, Recreation and
Society in the United States, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 2015
Teaching Assistant, (Instructor: Brenda Gayle Plummer) History 227: The History of
Race and Ethnicity in the United States, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 2013
Instructor, Communication Arts 100: “Introduction to Speech Composition,” University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2011, Spring 2012.
Teaching Assistant, (Instructor: John Hall) History 221: The American Military
Experience Since 1899, Spring 2011

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FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
Abo Sher Teaching Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2015
Mellon-Wisconsin Summer Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Summer 2015
Marshall and Jane C. Beard Research Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Department of History, Spring 2015
David Sorkin Scholarship, Jewish Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Spring 2015, Spring 2012
George L. Mosse Distinguished Graduate Fellow, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, AY
2013-2014
Herfurth Pre-Dissertator Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of
History, Fall 2012
Charles and Gayle Mazursky Student Support Fund, Jewish Studies Program, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2012, Spring 2012
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Travel Grant, 2009
Curators Scholarship, University of Missouri, 2002-06
Phi Beta Kappa, junior-year early inductee, University of Missouri, 2005
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES
Presenter, “Black Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Israeli Appeals and the
African-American Community in the late 1960s and early 1970s,” at the conference,
American-Israeli Relations through Multidisciplinary Lenses, University of Sussex,
Brighton, United Kingdom, September 2016
Presenter and Panel Co-Organizer, “Israel’s Black Diplomacy: Black Civil Rights
Leaders in Israel and Kibbutzim in the Deep South, 1964-1969,” at the American
Historical Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2016
Presenter, “Moving Israel ‘Westwards’: American Labor, the Histadrut, and Anti-
Communism in Israel during the 1950s,” at the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish
Studies and Tel Aviv University Symposium, Madison, Wisconsin, September 1, 2015

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Presenter, “A Very ‘Special Relationship’: Jay Lovestone, Eliezer Livneh, and the Anti-
Communist Crusade in the Israeli Knesset,” at the Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations Annual Conference, Alexandria, Virginia, June 30, 2015; and the
World History Association Annual Conference, Savannah, Georgia, July 2, 2015
Invited Lecturer, “’The Rumble in the Jungle’: Domestic Politics, Global Sporting
Events, and International Relations,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015
Presenter and Panel Organizer, “‘Spearheads of Democracy’ and the ‘Special
Relationship’: The Histadrut, American Labor, and U.S.-Israeli Relations South of the
Sahara, 1957-1962,” at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual
Conference, Washington, D.C., June 2013
Presenter, “‘Bleeding Hearts, Missionary Zealots, and Prehistoric Monsters’: Henry
Kissinger and the African Bureau, 1974-75,” at the Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations Annual Conference, Madison, WI, June 2010
PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS
“Black Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Israeli Appeals and the African-
American Community in the late 1960s and early 1970s,” in The Many Faces of the
“Special Relationship,” edited by David Tal (in progress)
“Moving Israel ‘Westwards’: American Labor, the Histadrut, and Anti-communism in
Israel during the 1950s” (currently under review)
Review of, Linda Heywood, Allison Blakely, Charles Stith, and Joshua C. Yesnowitz,
African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy: From the Era of Frederick Douglas to the Age
of Obama in H-Diplo, July 2015.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Brittingham House Associate, University of Wisconsin System Administration, Office
of the President, 2016-17
• Recruited, trained, and supervised undergraduate student staff for official events
at the UW System President’s residence
• Coordinated event planning with the Office of the President and acted as liaison
between Office of the President staff and caterers during official events
Assistant Director, A Way with Words & Numbers tutoring organization, University of
Missouri, 2006-09
• Supervised undergraduate students who tutored at three elementary schools and

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one middle school; facilitated bi-monthly training sessions for tutors
• Assisted director and associate director with strategic planning for fundraising and
recruiting
• Interviewed more than 100 prospective tutors and made hiring recommendation
Research Assistant, University of Missouri Archives, 2005
• Advised and assisted patrons’ research projects
• Conducted original research on military history at the University of Missouri
• Created an online public exhibit for an original military history research project
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCIES
Hebrew
German
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
World History Association
Organization of American Historians
REFEREES
Brenda Gayle Plummer Professor of History and Afro-American Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of History
bplummer@wisc.edu
608.263.1845
Carol Anderson Professor of History and Afro-American Studies
Emory University
Department of African American Studies
carol.anderson@emory.edu
404.727.6847
William P. Jones Professor of History
University of Minnesota
Department of History
wpjones@umn.edu
612.625.7703