Staff Biographies

CHARLES STUART KENNEDY

tuart Kennedy has been director of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program since its inception in 1985.  A career officer in the US Foreign Service from 1955 to 1985, he retired with the rank of Minister Counselor.  Mr. Kennedy was consul general in Naples, Italy (1979-81), Seoul, South Korea (1976-79), Athens, Greece (1970-74) and Saigon, South Vietnam (1969-70).  He also served in Washington D.C., Germany, Saudi Arabia and Yugoslavia.  He was educated at Williams College (BA) and Boston University (MA), and served four years (1950-54) in the United States Air Force, including duty in South Korea, Japan and West Germany.  He is the author of The American Consul:  A History of the United States Consular Service 1776-1914, and co-author of The U.S. Consul at Work and American Ambassadors in a Troubled World.   He was awarded the Foreign Service Cup from the Director General of the foreign service in 1997 for his work as an oral historian.

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