Resume

• 2005

  PhD

  American History

  Michael and Ling Markovitz Dissertation Fellowship (2010-11)\nVon Holst Prize Lectureship (2008)\nDissertation Teaching and Research Fellowship (2007)\nVon Holst Prize Lectureship (declined) (2007)\nHumane Studies Fellowship (2006

  2009)\nCollege Lecturer (2005

  2007)\nBessie Pierce Prize Preceptor (2004

  2006)\nMellon Achievement Award (2001-2004)\nMann Travel Grant (2008)\nFreehling Research Travel Award (May 2005

  October 2006)

  University of Chicago

• 1993

  MA

  English Literature

• 1988

  BA

  English Major

  German Minor

  Cum Laude\nPhi Kappa Phi National Honor Society\nGolden Key National Honor Society

• University Teaching

  Grant Writing

  College Teaching

  Politics

  Academic Writing

  Qualitative Research

  Student Affairs

  Teaching

  Higher Education

  American History

  Literature

  Research

  History

  Program Development

  Statistics

  Economics

  Tutoring

  Editing

  Political Economy

  Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II

  They helped conquer the greatest armies ever assembled. Yet no sooner had they tasted victory after World War II than American generals suddenly found themselves governing their former enemies

  devising domestic policy and making critical economic decisions for people they had just defeated in battle. In postwar Germany and Japan

  this authority fell into the hands of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur

  along with a cadre of military officials like Lucius Clay and the Detroit banker Joseph Dodge.\n\nIn Sovereign Soldiers

  I tell the story of how this cast of characters assumed an unfamiliar and often untold policymaking role. Seeking to avoid the harsh punishments meted out after World War I

  military leaders believed they had to rebuild and rehabilitate their former enemies; if they failed they might cause an even deadlier World War III. Although they knew economic recovery would be critical in their effort

  none was schooled in economics. Beyond their hopes

  they managed to rebuild not only their former enemies but the entire western economy during the early Cold War.\n\nI show how army leaders learned from the people they governed

  drawing expertise that they ultimately brought back to the United States during the Eisenhower Administration in 1953. Sovereign Soldiers thus traces the circulation of economic ideas around the globe and back to the United States

  with the American military at the helm.

  Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II

  The International Origins of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Political Economy

  Because of the global nature of the Depression

  War

  and Cold War

  America’s experiments in state-building occurred concurrent to (and in competition with) fascist and communist alternatives; American state-building could not avoid comparison to its alternatives. Nowhere was the comparison more intense than in the occupied territories of Germany and Japan after World War II. There military governors built new German and Japanese states using the rubble of fascism and militarism while working (to varying degrees) in concert and competition with Soviet communists. \nNew Dealers had relied upon exceptionalist accounts of American state-building to legitimize their own domestic project and distinguish it from Nazism and communism. They saw Germans and Japanese as alien Others

  requiring extensive rehabilitation and supervision as part of a New Deal “for the World.” America’s occupiers

  sympathizing with their former enemies

  came to reject not only the “otherness” of the Germans and Japanese but also the exceptionalism that lay behind it. Indeed

  within a few years of running the occupations

  many in the military government had come to see the Germans and Japanese as similar to Americans; similarly

  they saw the German and Japanese turn to militarism as a harbinger of what might happen to any modern state if it poor policies. In particular

  they became intensely concerned with the dangers associated that followed government deficit spending and inflation.\nSince America’s military governors developed their political economy upon the ashes of Nazism and Japanese militarism

  their views took on an intensely moral hue. Americans had long believed in balancing government budgets as a matter of “good housekeeping.” For occupation officials

  however

  balanced budgets came to symbolize the essence of democratic stability

  and inflation came to symbolize the early signs of moral collapse

  even the first inroads of a “creeping paralysis” leading to dictatorship.

  Lessons of Victory: Occupying Germany and Japan

  Discovering the People's Capitalism

  For students of American Political Development

  the emergence of globalization and Americanization as themes of inquiry has spurred a growing interest in explaining America's rise as “a legal-economic and geopolitical hegemon.” An important episode in this rise came during the American occupation of Germany after World War II. In postwar Germany

  America's military government realized that the American public remained unwilling to support (over the long term) the global projection of what Michael Mann has called “despotic power.” To achieve its fundamental goal of reorienting Germany toward a peaceful coexistence with the Unites States

  military government turned instead to what Mann has called “infrastructural power” (power projected “through” society by state institutions). In pivoting from despotic to infrastructural power

  three important consequences followed for the occupation. (1) Because it relied on the development of new infrastructures within a new German state

  the occupation saw institutional “genesis” in which the Germans themselves influenced the pathway and timing of military government policy. (2) In creating new state institutions

  military government performed “policy bricolage

  ” creatively reconstructing institutions “from” the ruins of war-torn Europe (as opposed to “on” its ruins). (3) Financial policy took a central place in military government's focus because it allowed for “increasing returns” in advancing military government's interests. Collectively

  military government's experience provided lessons for an American state in the world.

  Becoming a State-in-the-World: Lessons Learned from the American Occupation of Germany

  Grant

  Madsen

  University of Chicago

  Department of History

  National Association of Home Builders

  Brigham Young University

  United States Senate

  Provo

  Utah Area

  My research focuses on intellectual

  political and economic history.

  Assistant Professor

  Brigham Young University

  I prepared legislative reports

  managed the Committee’s library

  oversaw legislative correspondents

  and researched legislation.

  United States Senate

  Legislative Director

  Environment

  I lobbied on behalf of the Homebuilders. My areas of expertise included the Clean Water Act

  Clean Air Act

  CERCLA ("Superfund") and other land use legislation.

  National Association of Home Builders

  Resident Head

  Office of Undergraduate Student Housing

  My wife and I managed an undergraduate dormitory of 100 students (Maclean House). We provided academic guidance and personal counseling

  programmed activities

  enforced the University's code of conduct

  and worked to build a community conducive to academic success for our students.

  University of Chicago

  Graduate Student

  University of Chicago

  University of Chicago

  Department of History