Randall B. Woods

Randall Bennett Woods (born October 10, 1944 ) is an American historian. His research focuses on the history of the United States, as well as its foreign policy history.

Woods has been the John A. Cooper Professor of History at University of Arkansas since 1984.

Life
Woods graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. After completing his doctorate, Woods began teaching at the University of Arkansas , serving as an assistant professor from 1972 to 1977 , an associate professor from 1977 to 1979, a professor from 1979 to 1995, and a distinguished professor since 1995.

He was Stanley Kaplan Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy at Williams College from 2009 to 2010. In 2012, he was Mellon Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University. From 2013 to 2014, he was John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.

His book Fulbright: A Biography won the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1996. It was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

His work appeared in American Heritage.