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Kevin E. Grimm, Ph.D.Associate Professor, HistoryHumanities DepartmentCollege of Arts & SciencesMore about Kevin E. Grimm, Ph.D.

Kevin E. Grimm, Ph.D.

Bio

Dr. Kevin E. Grimm studies the various relationships between the United States, American and international labor organizations (particularly the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions), development and modernization, and African nations during the 1950s and 1960s. He is a review editor for H-Diplo and is a section editor for the digitization of Routledge’s Encyclopedia of the Cold War for Routledge Resources Online. His work has appeared in Diplomatic History, Cold War History, the Journal of Contemporary History, Labor History, the Journal of West African History, and Media History. He is working on a book on the ICFTU and Ghana during the 1950s. He lives with his wife and children in Norfolk and attends Trinity Presbyterian Church.

Credentials

  • Ph.D. in History, Ohio University, 2012
  • Contemporary History Institute certificate (interdisciplinary seminar series), Ohio University, 2012
  • M.A. in History, Ohio University, 2008
  • B.A.in History, Bowling Green State University, 2005

Publications

Recent (2021-Present)

  • Review of Cold War History article that mentions others (https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20028403/h-diplo-article-review-1206-waters-grimm-perils-promises-and)
  • “Workers Occupy the Most Vital Role: The ICFTU, NATO, and Western Rearmament in the 1950s,” Diplomatic History 49, no. 5 (2025): 665-689, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaf056.
  • “Views From West Africa: Ghanaian Attention to Race Relations in 1950s America,” Media History 30, no. 2 (2024): 239-253.
  • “'A First Class Medium': The Cautious Anti-Communism of the ICFTU's International Labour Film Institute, 1953-1972,” Labor History 64, no. 2 (2024): 221-239.
  • “Perils, Promises, and Perspectives: Nuclear Weapons, Atomic Energy, and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in the Early Cold War,” Cold War History 23, no. 4 (2023): 495-515.
  • “‘With Flags Waving’: African Diasporic Agency in the 1960s ICFTU-Liberian Relationship,” Journal of West African History 9, no. 1 (2023): 85-110.
  • “From Books to Land Rovers: The Informal, Small Philanthropy of the AFL-CIO and the ICFTU in Africa During the Early Cold War,” in Ben Offiler and Rachel Williams, eds. American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad: New Directions in the History of Giving. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.
  • “‘Encroaching Upon Trade Union Preserves’: The 1950s Fight Over Global Labor Norms Between the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and Moral Re-Armament,” Labor History 62, no. 4 (2021): 489-510.