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Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Colby College

Tizoc Chavez is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Colby College. His research focuses on interactions between world leaders, with a particular interest in diplomacy of the American presidency. His research is on the origins, development, and use of leader-to-leader diplomacy by American presidents from the nation’s founding to the present, with particular focus on the 20th century. He has previously taught at Vanderbilt University and the United States Military Academy at West Point and been a DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt in 2016.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Visiting Assistant Professor, Colby College
  • 2020–2021
    Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy at West Point
  • 2019–2020
    DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
  • 2016–2019
    Visiting Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University

Education

  • 2016 
    Vanderbilt University , Ph.D./History