Life After Foreign Service
Retirement from the Foreign Service or USAID rarely meant slowing down. For many officers, it became a second chapter full…
Joys and Perils of Living Abroad: Memoirs of a Foreign Service Family
Diego Asencio met Nancy Rodriguez in 1951, and the young couple married in 1953. Diego entered the U.S Foreign Service…
Where’s The Beef? The Foreign Service Brings American Jerky Back To Japan
Where’s The Beef? The Foreign Service Brings American Jerky Back To Japan A single case of Mad Cow Disease in the…
Rep. Abigail Spanberger on the 100th Anniversary of the United States Foreign Service
Ms. SPANBERGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Foreign Service. Over the past…
Queer Diplomacy: A Transgender Journey in the Foreign Service
Join Robyn McCutcheon, an out and proud transgender woman, on her journey as a diplomat with the U.S. Department of…
Abroad for Her Country: Tales of a Pioneer Woman Ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service
Abroad for Her Country: Tales of a Pioneer Woman Ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service, published by the University of…
Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer
In this, his fifteenth, book, he offers a lively narrative of his experiences as a witness to the end of…
Memoirs of a Foreign Service Arabist
Dick Parker was renowned in the State Department for his dry acerbic wit. From his early youth on U.S. Cavalry posts…
The Incidental Oriental Secretary and Other Tales of Foreign Service
Dick Jackson captures the humor and sheer incongruity of working across cultures in an international career spanning diplomacy and education.…
Foreign at Home and Away: Foreign-Born Wives in the U.S. Foreign Service
It is estimated that one-third to one-half of the women married to U.S. Foreign Service officers are foreign-born. In Foreign at…