Randall Bennett Woods (born October 10, 1944 ) is an American historian. His research focuses on the history of the United States, as well as its foreign policy history.[1]
Woods graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. After completing his doctorate, Woods began teaching at the University of Arkansas, serving as an assistant professor from 1972 to 1977, an associate professor from 1977 to 1979, a professor from 1979 to 1995, and a distinguished professor since 1995.[3]
He was Stanley Kaplan Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy at Williams College from 2009 to 2010 . In 2012, he was Mellon Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University.[4] From 2013 to 2014, he was John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford .
His book Fulbright: A Biography won the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1996 . It was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award .
Woods, Randall Bennett (1979). The Roosevelt Foreign-policy Establishment and the "good Neighbor". Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN978-0-7006-0188-2.
Woods, Randall Bennett; Jones, Howard (1994). Dawning of the Cold War. Chicago, Ill: I. R. Dee. ISBN978-1-56663-047-4.
Woods, Randall Bennett (1995-06-30). Fulbright. Cambridge [UK]; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-48262-2. OCLC71347489.
Woods, Randall Bennett (1998-02-13). J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-58800-3.
Woods, Randall Bennett (2005-03-07). Quest for Identity. Cambridge; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-54997-4.