Francis J. Gavin is the Tom Slick Professor in International Affairs and Rostow Fellow, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin and Director of Studies at the recently founded Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law.  Mr. Gavin joined the LBJ School faculty in the fall of 2000. He previously was an Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs and an International Security Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He directed the Presidency and Economic Policy Project at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. A historian by training, his teaching and research interests focus on U.S. foreign policy, national security affairs, nuclear strategy and arms control, presidential policymaking, and the history of international monetary relations.  

Mr. Gavin received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Diplomatic History from the University of Pennsylvania, a MSt. in Modern European History from Oxford, and a B.A. in Political Science (with honors) from the University of Chicago. His publications include numerous scholarly articles, book reviews and editorials. His book, Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971, is published by the University of North Carolina Press. Mr. Gavin has won several prestigious awards and honors, including the 2002-2003 Smith Richardson Junior Faculty fellowship in International Security and Foreign Policy and the 2003-2004 Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellowship at the University of Texas. His current research project is entitled, "Strategy and Arms Control Reconsidered: Missile Defense, Nuclear Proliferation, and U.S. National Security Policy during the 1960's." Dr. Gavin has also helped create the new Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas, where he is the Director of Studies.