Ross Kennedy
Professor & Chair
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 301
Office Hours
By appointment.
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
Award-winning author of The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's Strategy for Peace and Security (2009) and editor of A Companion to Woodrow Wilson (2013).
Current Courses
HIS 499.001 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
HIS 400.001 Independent Study
HIS 490.001 Readings -- Field Of Study
HIS 291.001 Undergraduate Teaching Experience In History
HIS 499.001 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
HIS 400.001 Independent Study
HIS 490.001 Readings -- Field Of Study
Teaching Interests & Areas
Twentieth-century American foreign relations and political ideology; international history 1914-65.
Research Interests & Areas
World War I; Woodrow Wilson; U.S. foreign relations; international history 1914-65.
Ph D History
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
OAH Distinguished Lecturer
Organization of American Historians
2017
ISU-CAS Outstanding Service Award
ISU-College of Arts and Sciences
2015
ISU- CTLT DART Program
ISU-Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology
2015
ISU Leadership Initiative
ISU- Office of the Provost
2015
Outstanding College Researcher Award
History Department Nominee -- CAS
2014
Scott Bills Prize for Best Book in Peace History
Peace History Society
2010
Grants and Contracts
"U.S. Foreign Relations, 1890-1945," Oxford Handbook of American Foreign Relations
Ross Kennedy.
Oxford University Press. September 15 2014 - September 15 2014
Book Review
Review of Kaiga, Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations
Ross Kennedy.
(2024), Peace & Change
Review of Justin Quinn Olmstead, The United States' Entry into the First World War
Ross Kennedy.
(2021), 28, 227-228, War in History
Geoffrey Wawro, Sons of Freedom: The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I
Ross Kennedy.
(2019), 10, 283-84, First World War Studies
Review of O'Toole, Patricia, The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made.
Ross Kennedy.
(2019), 4, H-Net Reviews/H-Diplo
"Throntveit, Power Without Victory"
Ross Kennedy.
(2018)
Review of Frank Ninkovich, The Global Republic: America's Inadvertent Rise to World Power.
Ross Kennedy.
(2016), H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews
Review of Charles E. Neu, Colonel House: A Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner.
Ross Kennedy.
(2015), 17, pp. 13-16, H-Diplo Roundtable Review
Review of Diplomatic History Legacies of World War I Commemorative Issue
Ross Kennedy.
(2015), H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews
Review of Katherine Epstein, Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain.
Ross Kennedy.
(2015), 49, 2 pages, Journal of American Studies
Book, Authored
The United States and the Origins of World War II in Europe
Ross Kennedy.
(2025), 10.4324/9781003272144, Routledge
The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's Strategy for Peace and Security
Ross A. Kennedy.
(2009), Kent State University Press
Book, Chapter
"Mobilizing for the Great War"
Ross Kennedy.
(2020), 13-33, Dixie's Great War, University of Alabama Press
"Wilson's Wartime Diplomacy: The United States and the First World War, 1914-1918"
Ross Kennedy.
(2020), A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations, Colonial Era to the Present", Wiley-Blackwell
"The United States and Britain's Victory"
Ross Kennedy.
(2018), Britain and Victory in the Great War
"The American Experience during World War I"
Ross Kennedy.
(2016), 42 pages, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, Oxford University Press
"Introduction."
Ross Kennedy.
(2015), Woodrow Wilson: Facing an Economic Revolution, Now and Then
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen points and the League of Nations
Ross Kennedy.
(2013), Routledge Handbook of U.S. Diplomatic and Military History, 1865 to the Present, Routledge
World War I: The Challenge of Maintaining Neutrality
Ross Kennedy.
(2012), The Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy, CQ Press, Sage Publications
"The Greatest Hypocrite in History": Woodrow Wilson, U.S. Policy toward German democracy, and the De-legitimation of the Versailles Treaty
Ross Kennedy.
International Conference on the Peace Treaties (1918-1923): Proceedings, Sorbonne University
Journal Article
"Four New Takes on Wilson, World War I, and the Making of the Post-War Order."
Ross Kennedy.
Journal of Strategic Studies, 41 (7), 12, (2018)
"Strategic Calculations in Woodrow Wilson's Neutrality Policy, 1914-1917."
Ross Kennedy.
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 17 (4), 608-18, (2018)
"'A Net of Intrigue and Selfish Rivalry': Woodrow Wilson and Power Politics during World War I"
Ross Kennedy.
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, (159), 1-6, (2015)
"JAH Interchange: Reconsidering America's First World War"
Ross Kennedy, .
Journal of American History, (2015)
"Peace Progressives and American Neutralism, 1914-1917"
Ross Kennedy.
Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica, 2015 (1), 67-90, (2015)
Other
Peace Initiatives
Ross Kennedy.
Freie Universitat Berlin (Germany) and the Bavarian State Library (Munich), (2014)
A Companion to Woodrow Wilson
Ross Kennedy.
Wiley-Blackwell, (2013)
Review of Galen Jackson, " The Offshore Balancing Thesis Reconsidered: Realism, the Balance of Power in Europe, and America's Decision for War in 1917"
Ross Kennedy.
H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review, (January 24, 2013), (2013)
"Governments, Parliaments, and Parties (USA)"
Ross Kennedy.
Presentations
"Liberal Internationalism and U.S. National Security Debates in the 1920s"
Ross Kennedy.
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 2020 Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 20, 2020
"A Commitment to Judge: Woodrow Wilson's Conception of Collective Security Under the League of Nations."
Ross Kennedy.
A century of Internationalisms: The Promise and Legacies of the League of Nations, Lisbon, Portugal, September 20, 2019
"'The Greatest Hypocrite in History': Woodrow Wilson, U.S. Policy toward German Democracy, and the De-legitimation of the Versailles Treaty"
Ross Kennedy.
International Conference on the Peace treaties (1918-1923), Paris, France, March 22, 2019
"The United States and the End of World War I."
Ross Kennedy.
History Alive and Armistice Day Celebration, Des Moines, Iowa, November 9, 2018
"Woodrow Wilson and the Impact of the United States on World War I"
Ross Kennedy.
International Studies Seminar, Normal, Illinois, April 11, 2018
"Woodrow Wilson and the Impact of the United States on World War I"
Ross Kennedy.
Vincent Howard and James P and Mary C. Sczepaniak Lectures, Romeoville, Illinois, March 22, 2018
"A Divided Land: World War I and American Domestic Politics"
Ross Kennedy.
"World War I Symposium", Rockford, Illinois, January 20, 2018
The American Neutralism and Wilsonianism
Ross Kennedy.
Le Due Neutralita: Italia e Stati Uniti di fronte alla Prima Guerra Mondiale, Venice, Italy, May 22, 2015
Wilson Historiography; Wilson and the First World War
Ross Kennedy.
SHAFR Summer Institute: Wilsonianism and American Foreign Policy, Williams College, MA, June 23, 2014
A Net of Intrigue and Selfish Rivalry: Woodrow Wilson and Power Politics
Ross Kennedy.
American Philosphical Society Spring Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, April 26, 2014
State of the Field: Reassessing American Involvement in World War I -- Wilson and Diplomacy
Ross Kennedy.
Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 12, 2014