Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
Elizabeth
Cobbs Hoffman (Stanford University, 1988) is the Dwight
E. Stanford Chair in U.S. Foreign Relations. She is the author
of All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the
1960s (Harvard, 1998). Her first book, The Rich Neighbor Policy:
Rockefeller and Kaiser in Brazil (Yale, 1992), won the Allan Nevins
Prize of the Society of American Historians, and the Stuart Bernath
Award of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Her research has taken her to archives across the United States,
as well as to four continents. She has received fellowships from
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Organization
of American States, and research support from the John Kennedy,
Lyndon Johnson, and Rockefeller Family Archives. Professor Cobbs
Hoffman currently writes articles for both scholarly and popular
journals, and has served on the editorial boards of Diplomatic
History and the Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations. Her
research interests include modern American foreign relations,
the Sixties, Third World economic development, and modern Latin
America. Professor Cobbs Hoffman is currently working on projects
related to world history and to reform movements in the United
States in the 1960s. She also serves as a member of the nine-person
Historical Advisory Committee to the Department of State in Washington,
D.C.