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Dr. Jeffrey F. Taffet Professor, Humanities

Year Started

2002

Education

  • Ph.D. History, Georgetown University
  • M.A. History, Georgetown University
  • B.A. History, Franklin and Marshall College

Teaching Interests

  • U.S. History
  • World History
  • History of U.S. Foreign Relations
  • Latin American History

Research Interests

  • The history of U.S. foreign aid programs
  • Connections between U.S. domestic politics and international relations
  • U.S.-Latin American relations

Biography

Jeffrey Taffet is a scholar of United States international history. He is the author of Against Aid: A History of Opposition to Foreign Aid Spending (Routledge 2022), The United States and Latin America: A History with Documents (Routledge 2017) with Dustin Walcher, and Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy: The Alliance for Progress in Latin America (Routledge 2007). His current work explores US foreign aid spending for reproductive health programs from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s. In his spare time, Dr. Taffet enjoys running, biking, and grading papers.

Last updated: Monday, July 17, 2023

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