Personal profile
About
Dr. Callahan is a Professor of History and Frances Willson Thompson Professor of Leadership Studies. He is author of Mandates and Empire: The League of Nations and Africa, 1914-1931 (Sussex Academic Press,1999/2008); A Sacred Trust: The League of Nations and Africa, 1929-1945 (Sussex Academic Press, 2004/2018) and editor (with R.M. Douglas and Elizabeth Bishop) of Imperialism on Trial: International Oversight of Colonial Rule in Historical Perspective (Lexington Books, 2006). His most recent book is The League of Nations, International Terrorism, and British Foreign Policy, 1934-1938 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Other publications include “The League of Nations and the Problems of Health and the Environment: Leadership for the Common Good in Historical Perspective” in Benjamin W. Redekop, ed., Leadership for Environmental Sustainability (Routledge, 2010) and "Preventing a Repetition of the Great War: Responding to International Terrorism in the 1930s" in Peace Through Law: The Versailles Peace Treaty and Dispute Settlement After World War I. Studies of the Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, edited by Michel Erpelding, Burkhard Hess and Hélène Ruiz Fabri (Namos Verlag, 2019).
Dr. Callahan’s courses are designed to sharpen the skills of critical reading, writing, and thinking.
Education/Academic qualification
Ph.D. in History, Michigan State University
… → 1995
M.S. in History, Michigan State University
… → 1988
B.S. in History, Central Michigan University
… → 1986
Research Interests
- History of International Relations
Disciplines
- History
- Liberal Studies