Marianna Sullivan

Professor

Marianna P. Sullivan was raised in New York City and completed the A.B. degree in History and Politics from Rosemont College in Rosemont Pennsylvania in 1964. She received graduate degrees from the University of Virginia in Foreign Affairs: the M.A. in 1966 and the Ph.D. in 1971. Postgraduate study included coursework at the Wharton School of Economics and Management of the University of Pennsylvania (1979-80) and at Princeton University (1990-91). Having served internships with the United States Department of State in Washington, D.C. and at the American Embassy in Paris, France, Dr. Sullivan taught at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University before joining the faculty at the College of New Jersey in 1971. She holds the rank of Professor.

Dr. Sullivan's teaching and research interests emphasize International Relations, American Foreign Policy, European Politics and the social and political effects of American participation in the Vietnam War. Her publications include: France's Vietnam Policy: A Study in French-American Relations (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1978); "France and the Vietnam Peace Settlement," Political Science Quarterly (June, 1974); "The Lessons of Vietnam and the Foreign Policy Consensus," Peace and Change (Summer, 1983); and entries entitled, "Vietnam" and "Vietnam Syndrome" in Rudiger B. Wersich ed. USA-Lexikon (Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag 1995). She has delivered numerous papers at scholarly forums, especially the International Studies Association, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the New York Political Science Association. Her current research concerns the domestic sources of American Foreign Policy.

Among other awards, Dr. Sullivan was selected as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Frankfurt (1987-88), as a Current Strategy Fellow at the U. S. Naval War College (June, 1985), as a NATO Research Fellow (1978-79), and as a participant in two summer seminars funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities: on Vietnam in 1981, and on French Politics in 1993. Released time awards from the College of New Jersey have supported her research and The College recognized her teaching and research with a merit award in 1985.

Dr. Sullivan teaches the following courses at TCNJ: International Relations, American Foreign Policy, Vietnam and America, Politics in Europe, and Politics in Russia. Outside the department, she teaches IDSC 252 Society, Ethics and Technology, a required course in the college's interdisciplinary core. She also co-chairs the interdisciplinary minor in International Studies.