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Kyle Burke serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Florida, where he teaches modern US and global history courses including Global Cold War, American Empire, Vietnam War, and History of US Foreign Relations. His research investigates interconnected histories of war, political violence, and radicalism across transnational contexts.
His academic credentials include:
- PhD from Northwestern University (2016)
Professor Burke's scholarship centers on global manifestations of political extremism. His first book Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) analyzes right-wing networks supporting guerrilla movements across four continents. Current research explores trans-Atlantic white supremacist mobilization since 1945 through his forthcoming work White Power Worldwide, examining cross-border funding, narrative circulation, and violent tactics targeting common enemies.
His research has received support from:
- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
- Temple University's Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy
- New York University's Tamiment Library
- Northwestern University's Chabraja Center for Historical Studies
- Northwestern University's Buffett Institute for Global Studies
Professor Burke actively mentors student research on diverse historical topics including Cold War peacemaking efforts, arms trafficking networks, post-industrial pollution cases, and the processed chicken industry's economic evolution. His scholarly contributions appear in Diplomatic History, The American Historical Review, Terrorism and Political Violence, and public forums including Jacobin and The Times Literary Supplement, demonstrating commitment to both academic rigor and public engagement.
