Foster Rhea Dulles was an American journalist, history professor, and author of a number of books. He specialized in American political and cultural relations with the Far East and advocated internationalism as opposed to American isolationism. The diplomats John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles were his cousins.
Biography
After secondary education at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Dulles attended Princeton University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1921. For two years after graduation he lived in China and taught at Princeton University's Peking Center. In 1922 he became a correspondent in Beijing for the Christian Science Monitor. He returned to the United States and joined in 1923 the staff of the New York Herald and in 1924 the staff of Foreign Affairs. From 1925 to 1926 he worked at the New YorkHerald Tribune's Paris bureau. From 1927 to 1933 he wrote editorials for the New York Evening Post. Dulles was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1937–1938. He was a visiting professor of American history at Bennington College for the academic year 1938–1940, at Smith College for the academic year 1939–1940 and at Swarthmore College for the academic year 1940‐1941. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1940 with PhD thesisAmerican Learns to Learn. Dulles was a professor of history at Ohio State University from 1941 to 1965, when he retired as professor emeritus. He was chair of the history department from 1953 to 1958. In 1957 he went on State Department cultural exchange trips to India, where he lectured at several different universities, and to the Soviet Union in 1958. He was a Fuibright lecturer in Japan for the academic year 1961‐1962. Dulles Hall at Ohio State University is named in his honor.
Family
Foster R. Dulles's father was William Dulles, who was a lawyer and corporation president and a brother of Allen Macy Dulles. On August 7, 1926, Foster R. Dulles married Marion Richardson in Bound Brook, New Jersey. Upon his death in 1970 he was survived by his widow, four daughters, and eight grandchildren.
