Matthew Jagel

Matthew Jagel is a diplomatic historian, focusing on the United States and Southeast Asia during the Cold War.
His academic monograph with Cornell University Press, Khmer Nationalist: Son Ngoc Thanh, the CIA, and the Transformation of Cambodia was the result of extensive research in various US and overseas archival holdings, including a year at the Cambodian National Archives on a Fulbright Fellowship. It examines the career of Cambodian nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh, his influence on the growth of nationalism in Cambodia, and his relationship with the United States. He has also written about the role of the Philippines in the war in Vietnam. He is currently instructor of history at Saint Xavier University and co-host of the podcast Napalm in the Morning: The Vietnam War through Film.