Melvin Small
Melvin Small is an American academic working as a distinguished professor emeritus of history at Wayne State University in Detroit.Education
Small earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.Career
Over the past two decades, Small has concentrated his research and writing on the Post-war era, with an emphasis on the Vietnam War, the antiwar movement, and Presidents Johnson and Nixon. A historian of American foreign policy, he studies public opinion, domestic politics and foreign policy, a subject reflected in his recent monographs and several theoretical articles. He was a co-investigator on the quantitative IR project, the Correlates of War, WSU's NCAA faculty advisor, and department chair. He also worked as a restaurant reviewer for the Metro Times.
A former president of the Peace History Society, Small has written the award-winning Johnson, Nixon and the Doves, Democracy and Diplomacy, The Presidency of Richard Nixon, Antiwarriors, and At the Water's Edge, among other books.
