Hugh Wilford, Ph.D. Professor of History California State University, Long Beach 1250 Bellflower Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90840 562 985-4422 | Fax: 562 985-5431 Hugh.Wilford@csulb.edu | Office: FO2-216

Research Interests

U.S. Intellectual History
History of the American Left
The CIA and the “Cultural Cold War”
Americanization and Anti-Americanism

Education

B.A., Bristol University
Ph.D., Exeter University

Selected Publications

The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, January 2008.

The U.S. Government, Citizen Groups, and the Cold War: The State-Private Network, ed., with Helen Laville. London: Routledge, 2006.

The CIA, the British Left, and the Cold War: Calling the Tune? London: Frank Cass, 2003.

The New York Intellectuals: From Vanguard to Institution. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995.

Honors and Awards

Visiting Scholar, Cold War Studies Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004-2005.

Fellow in American Civilization, Gilder Lehrman Institute, New York, 2001.

Fleur Cowles Research Fellow, Harry Ransom Research Center for the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, 1997.

Fulbright Scholar, 1996-1997.