Tyler Priest
Professor and Director of Global Studies
Bio
Tyler Priest is the Director of Global Studies in the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston and faculty affiliate of the UH Department of History’s Institute for Public History. A specialist in the history of U.S. foreign relations and modern business, he has taught at Middlebury College in addition to the University of Houston. He was also chief historian on a Shell Oil corporate history project and on a federal government project to document the history of offshore oil and gas development in the Gulf of Mexico. His primary teaching area is the History of Globalization, and his current research focuses on the history of offshore petroleum.
Research Interests
- History of Globalization
- Business History
- Energy History
- History of U.S. Foreign Relations
Publications
- The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil’s Search for Petroleum in Postwar America (forthcoming, Texas A&M University Press)
- Global Gambits: Big Steel and the U.S. Quest for Manganese (Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2003)
- “The ‘Americanization’ of Shell Oil,” in Geoffrey Jones and Lina Galvez-Munoz, eds., Foreign Multinationals in the United States: Management and Performance (London: Routledge, 2001)
- “Banking on Development: Brazil in the United States’s Search for Strategic Minerals, 1945-1953,” International History Review XXI, no. 2 (June 1999): 297-330.
Contact Info
- Phone:
- 713-743-3669
- Email:
- tpriest@uh.edu
- Room:
- 325A
- Website:
- No Web Site Currently
Education
Ph.D. History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. History
Carleton College