BA, MA, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara
Monographs
Michelle Obama: “Mom in Chief”, 2009-2017 (University Press of Kansas, forthcoming)
First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009).
Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007, 2004)
The Cold War (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood,1998)
Loans and Legitimacy: The Evolution of Soviet-American Relations, 1919-1933 (Lexington: University of Kentucky,1996). Winner, 1997 Phi Alpha Theta Book Award for Best First Book.
Edited Volumes
Southern First Ladies: Culture and Place in White House History (University Press of Kansas, 2021)
With Vernon Pedersen and James Ryan, eds., Post-Cold War Revelations and the American Communist Party: Citizens, Revolutionaries, and Spies (Bloomsbury, 2021).
“Southern Belles, Washington Balls, and Dixie’s Reach: How Southern First Ladies Changed America’s Compass,” March 28, 2018, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; http://blog.smu.edu/cph/events/southern-belles/
Guest editor for Diplomatic History, Special Issue on Sexuality and Gender in Foreign Relations 36:4 (September 2012), 696-98.
Book Chapters
With Catherine Allgor, “Introduction,” in Southern First Ladies: Culture and Place in White House History (University Press of Kansas, 2021)
“Reflecting on the Activism of Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century First Ladies,” in Southern First Ladies: Culture and Place in White House History (University Press of Kansas, 2021)
“Soviet Spies, Russian Trolls, and the U.S. Security State: Russia’s Legacy on American Politics and Culture since 1919,” in Pedersen, Ryan, and Sibley, eds., Post-Cold War Revelations and the American Communist Party: Citizens, Revolutionaries, and Spies (Bloomsbury, 2021).
“Introduction” and “Florence Kling Harding: Celebrity and Activist,” in Sibley, ed., A Companion to First Ladies (2016).
“Introduction,” in Sibley, ed., A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover (2014).
Book Series
“First Ladies and First Partners,” a new series with the University Press of Kansas on interdisciplinary topics around those who are partnered with the president, co-edited with Nancy Beck Young of the University of Houston.
