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Dr. Simon Toner is a Lecturer in Modern American History at the School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities, University of Sheffield. He holds a Ph.D. in International History from the London School of Economics (2015) and has held postdoctoral fellowships in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security at Dartmouth College and Southeast Asian Studies at Columbia University.
Research Interests: Dr. Toner specializes in U.S. history within global and transnational contexts, focusing on U.S. relations with the Global South since 1945, modern Vietnamese history, development, war and counterinsurgency, and political economy. His work explores how U.S. actors projected postcolonial development ideas into the Global South and how these were received, renegotiated, or resisted. His current book project examines the American War in Vietnam as an episode in global development, emphasizing how late 1960s–1970s shifts in development thinking influenced the war's outcome.
Scientific Awards:
- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
- Institute for New Economic Thinking
- LBJ Foundation
- Ford Presidential Foundation
Advising and Grants: Dr. Toner has supervised Ph.D. students like Sylvia Broeckx and has secured grants from prestigious institutions, including the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the LBJ Foundation.
