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Edward C. Keefer

Guest Speaker

Professional Affiliation

Office of the Historian, State Department
Former General Editor of the Foreign Relations of the United States series

Expert Bio

Edward C. Keefer received a PH.D in history from Michigan State University in 1974.  For 34 years he was an editor of the U.S. Department of State鈥檚 official documentary series, Foreign Relations of the United States.   During that time he edited or co-edited 25 Foreign Relations volumes.  After 2002 he was the General Editor of the series until his retirement in 2009.  He is currently a historian at the U.S. Secretary of Defense鈥檚 Historical Office writing a history of Harold Brown鈥檚 tenure as Secretary of Defense during the Carter Administration, January 1977 to January 1981.