Eugene Gholz

Associate Professor of Public Affairs (on leave 2010-11, working in the Office of Industrial Policy, U.S. Department of Defense)
Contact Info
512-471-5882SRH 3.357
egholz@alum.mit.edu
Office Hours
Spring 2010: Tuesdays 2:00-4:00Eugene Gholz, who has a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined the LBJ School faculty in 2005 as an Assistant Professor. Before that, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky's Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. Gholz is a Research Associate at MIT's Security Studies Program, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Board of Advisors at the Independent Institute's Center on Peace and Liberty.
An expert on the aerospace and defense industries, Gholz has authored and coauthored numerous articles, book chapters, and op-ed columns on innovation, business-government relations, defense management, and U.S. foreign military policy. He is the coauthor of Buying Transformation: Military Innovation and the Defense Industry (Columbia University Press, 2006) and US Defense Politics: The Origins of Security Policy (Routledge, 2008).
Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000
Current Positions
Research Affiliate, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Life Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Previous Positions
Assistant Professor, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky
Co-Author, Buying Transformation: Military Innovation and the Defense Industry (Columbia University Press, 2006)
Faculty in the News
| 01/13/2011 | 50th Anniversary of Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex Speech | CSPAN |
| 03/01/2010 | Footprints in the Sand | The American Interest |
| 10/08/2009 | Restraining Order: For Strategic Modesty | World Affairs |
| 07/28/2009 | Idea of the Day- a 21st Century Nixon Doctrine | The New York Times |
| 07/22/2009 | The Nixon Doctrine in the 21st Century | World Politics Review |
| 08/21/2008 | All the Oil We Need | The New York Times |
| 08/20/2008 | Strauss Center Fellow: Iranian capability to disrupt oil flows exaggerated | Robert Strauss Center |
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