W. Taylor Fain joined the History Department’s faculty in 2004. Previously he was an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and taught courses in the university’s Corcoran Department of History. He was also a scholar at the Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program where he worked with a team of historians to transcribe, edit, and annotate the Nixon tapes. Dr. Fain obtained his Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 1989 and then worked as a Department of State historian in Washington. He received his doctorate in the history of American foreign relations from the University of Virginia in 2002. His research interests include the international history of the Cold War, Anglo-American relations, U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean, and the American response to European imperial retrenchment in the 1950s and 1960s. He is the author of American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and has published articles in the journals Middle Eastern Studies and Diplomacy and Statecraft. American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region:
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