Stephen R. Kelly recently assumed the role of U.S. Department of State Diplomat in Residence at Duke, and will be seeking out those students interested in careers formulating and implementing U.S. foreign policy.
Kelly, a 26-year career Senior Foreign Service Officer, will be a resource for Duke students and faculty interested in internships, scholarships, fellowships or general advice on a diplomatic career.
Stephen R. Kelly
Prior to this assignment he was Director of the Senior Level Assignments Division at the State Department in Washington, D.C., where he oversaw the counseling and assignments of the most experienced and high-ranking career officers in the U.S. diplomatic service.
From 2004 to 2006, Kelly was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to Mexico, one of the largest U.S. diplomatic establishments in the world. He focused in particular on the myriad border issues with Mexico, growing law enforcement and immigration problems, and on efforts to further North American integration.
From 2000-2004 Kelly was Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Mission to Canada. Kelly also served as Consul General in Quebec City from 1995-1998, where he was the chief U.S. reporting officer on the Quebec Sovereignty Referendum of October 1995.
Other overseas postings include the Netherlands as political counselor, Indonesia as human rights officer, Belgium as a political and consular officer, and Mali as a management officer.
Kelly is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and holds a master’s degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College in Washington, D.C.
During the Spring 2009 semester, Steve Kelly will teach “North America: Our Neighbors, Our Future” (CAN 150), which will examine a series of critical modern challenged facing the United States whose solutions may lie, at least partially, with Canada and Mexico. Energy, trade, border protection, drug trafficking, continental defense, immigration and the environment, among other topics, will be studied in a North American context. One aspect to be addressed is the seeming contradiction between the importance of our neighbors – our largest oil suppliers, our largest export markets, our largest drug suppliers – and our knowledge of them, which is usually extremely low and often, in the case of Mexico, often negative. Students will also consider whether further continental integration is possible or desirable.
Duke’s previous Diplomat in Residence, Renee M. Earle, assumed the post of Public Affairs Officer for the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to the European Union, in Brussels, at the conclusion of her two-year appointment in Durham.
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