Participant Info
- First Name
- Kristin
- Last Name
- Ahlberg
- Country
- United States
- State
- NE
- kahlberg480@cox.net
- Affiliation
- Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, retired
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Diplomatic History, Public History, Agricultural History, Political History, Foreign Assistance Policy, First Ladies, Federal History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Kristin Ahlberg served as a historian in the Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, from 2003 until her retirement in 2024. She compiled or co-compiled 10 volumes in the Foreign Relations of the United States series. For 13 years, she served as the Assistant General Editor of the FRUS series, responsible for the review of FRUS volumes and coordination of access issues.
She is the author of Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press), which won the Society for History in the Federal Government’s Pendleton Prize in 2010.
- Recent Publications
Cultivating Compassion: The Carter Administration, Food Aid, and Human Rights (under advance contract by the University Press of Kansas)
“‘Exporting the Wonders of Modern Science’: Thinking Scientifically About Food Aid and Foreign Policy,” in Debra A. Reid, Karen Beth Scholthof, and David D. Vail eds., Interpreting Science in Museums and Historic Sites (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981-1988, Volume I, Foundations of Foreign Policy (2022)
“Diplomacy First: Rosalynn Carter as Diplomat,” in Katherine A.S. Sibley, ed., Southern First Ladies: Changing America’s Compass (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021)
“‘Food for Peace is a Moral Program’: The Intersection of Agricultural and Human Rights Policy in the Carter Administration,” Agricultural History, Volume 95, Number 1 (Winter 2021)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Diplomacy, Food History, Government, Human Rights, Politics, Public History, Rural & Agrarian History
