Research Interests

Friedman emphasizes a transnational approach to scholarly inquiry in his publications on foreign relations, national security, migration, civil liberties, and the politics of historical memory. His regional emphases include the United States, Western Europe and Latin America. He is currently at work on a history of anti-Americanism and foreign perceptions of U.S. foreign policy.

Selected Publications

• Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. Cambridge University Press, 2003
• Partisan Histories: The Past in Contemporary Global Politics. Max Paul Friedman and Padraic Kenney, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
• "Simulacrobama: The Mediated Election of 2008." Journal of American Studies 43:2 (2009): 341-56.
• "Anti-Americanism and U.S. Foreign Relations." Diplomatic History 32:4 (September 2008): 497-514
• “Twilight of the Defense Intellectuals.” Modern Intellectual History 5:2 (August 2008): 411-23
• “From Manila to Baghdad: Empire and the American Mission Civilisatrice at the Beginning and End of the Twentieth Century.” Revue française d’études américaines 13 (September 2007): 26-38
• “Beyond ‘Voting with their Feet’: Toward a Conceptual History of ‘America’ in European Migrant Sending Communities, 1860s to 1914.” Journal of Social History 40:3 (Spring 2007): 557-75
• “Trading Civil Liberties for National Security: Warnings from a World War II Program.” Journal of Policy History 17:3 (2005): 294-307
• “The Cold War Politics of Exile, Return, and the Search for a Usable Past in Friedrich Karl Kaul’s Es wird Zeit, dass Du nach Hause kommst.” German Life and Letters 58:3 (July 2005): 306-25
• “The U.S. State Department and the Failure to Rescue: New Evidence on the Missed Opportunity at Bergen-Belsen.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 19:1 (Spring 2005): 26-50
• “Retiring the Puppets, Bringing Latin America Back In: Recent Scholarship on United States-Latin American Relations.” Diplomatic History 27:5 (November 2003): 621-36
• "There Goes the Neighborhood: Blacklisting Germans in Latin America and the Evancescence of the Good Neighbor Policy." Diplomatic History 27:4 (September 2003): 569-97.
• "Specter of a Nazi Threat: United States-Colombian Relations, 1939-1945." The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 56:4 (April 2000): 563-89.
• "Private Memory, Public Records, and Contested Terrain: Weighing Oral Testimony in the Deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II." The Oral History Review 27:1 (2000): 1-16.

Grants and Sponsored Research

• SHAFR Samuel F. Bemis Research Grant
• American Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Grant
• SHAFR W. Stull Holt Fellowship
• Johns Hopkins Center for Strategic Education Summer Fellowship
• Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Publication Award
• Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Grant
• Japanese American Citizens League Community Affairs Grant
• Holocaust Educational Foundation Summer Fellowship
• Tinker Summer Field Research Grant for Latin America
• Mellon Dissertation Fellowship

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

• Herbert Hoover Book Prize in U.S. History
• A.B. Thomas Book Prize in Latin American Studies
• Bernath Article Prize for best historical article, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
• Bernath Lecture Prize for excellence in scholarship and teaching, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
• Amos Simpson Prize for Best European History Paper, Southern Historical Association
• Woodrow Wilson Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship  
• German Historical Institute Jürgen Heideking Fellowship
• Mershon Center Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Security Studies (declined)
• Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellowship

Professional Presentations

• “Anti-Americanism and U.S. Foreign Relations.” SHAFR Bernath Prize Lecture, New York, 2008
• “The Myth of Anti-Americanism.” Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Temple University, Philadelphia, 2008 
• “Legal Resistance to U.S. Interventions in Latin America, 1954-1965.” Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, 2007
• “Anti-Americanism in Transatlantic Relations during the Vietnam War.” Institut für Geschichte, University of Vienna, 2006 
• “Transnational Meanings of the 1954 Coup in Guatemala.” Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006
• “The Distortions of Anti-Americanism in Franco-American Relations.” Culture and International History, Frankfurt, 2005
• “Memory and the Contest for Hegemony in Politics.” The Merits of Memory, Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, 2005
• “Anti-Americanism and the Limits of Critical Discourse.” European Association for American Studies, Prague, 2004
• “The False Dichotomy of Security and Civil Liberties.” American Historical Association, Washington, DC, 2004
• “The State Department & the Failure to Rescue.” International Conference on Rescue Attempts, Bergen-Belsen, Germany, 2003

Media Appearances

• Christian Science Monitor 
• Folha de Sao Paolo
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• Miami Herald
• San Jose Mercury News
• Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Deutschlandfunk
• Deutschlandradio Kultur
• BBC in Spanish
• Austrian Broadcasting Corporation