Dr. Gary Hess, Distinguished Research Professor (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1965). Dr. Hess's research and teaching focus on U.S. foreign policy, especially the U.S. and Asia, and U.S. national security policy.  A past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (1991) and a former chair of the U.S. State Department's Committee on Historical Deiplomatic Documentation, he has received two NEH fellowships and three Fulbright awards.  In 1993, he served as the John A. Burns Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii.  He serves on the Board of Editors of Diplomatic History.  His books include Sam Higginbotham of Allahabad: Pioneer of Point Four to India (University Press of Virginia, 1967); America Encounters India (Johns Hopkins, 1971); America and Russia: Cold War Confrontation to Coexistence (Crowell, 1973); The United States' Emergence as a Southeast Asian Power, 1940-1950 (Columbia University Press, 1987); Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War (Macmillan/Pwayne, rev. ed. 1998); The United States at War 1941-1945 (Harland Davidson, rev. ed. 2000); and Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf (John Hopkins University Press, 2001).  His most recent book is Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War (Wiley/Blackwell, 2008).  A forthcoming expanded edition of Presidential Decisions for War will include material on the current war.