International History Network

Here are some of the leading figures in international history who have called Yale home:

• Hal Brands,  Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Latin America’s Cold War (Harvard University Press, 2010).

• Lucy Chester, University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Borders and Conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab (Manchester University Press, 2009).

• Mark Choate, Brigham Young University. He is the author of Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad (Harvard University Press, 2008), winner of Council for European Studies Book Award and the Howard Marraro Prize from the Catholic History Association, and selec-ted as an Editor’s Pick by the Foreign Policy Association.

• Matthew Connelly, Columbia University. He is the author of A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford Univer-sity Press, 2002), winner of the George Louis Beer Prize and Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association (AHA), as well as the Stuart Bernath Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), the Akira Iriye International Book Award from the Foundation for Pacific Quest, and the Edgar Furniss Book Award from the Mershon Center at the Ohio State University. His most recent book is Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (Harvard University Press, 2008). 

 • William Hitchcock, University of Virginia. He is the author of France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 (Oxford University Press, 2003), selected as a Choice Academic Title. His most recent book is The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe (Free Press, 2008).

• Mark Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to the War in Vietnam (University of California Press, 2005), winner of the George Louis Beer Prize and Paul Birdsall Prize. His most recent book is The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (Oxford University Press, 2008). 

• Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University. He is the author of Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (University of California Press, 1999), winner of the W. Turrentine Jackson Book Award from the Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA, co-winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, and winner of Warren F. Kuehl Prize from SHAFR. His most recent book is America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (with Campbell Craig, Harvard University Press, 2009).

• Lorenz Lüthi, McGill University. He is the author of The Sino-Soviet Split. Cold War in the Communist World (Princeton University Press, 2008), winner of the Edgar Furniss Book Award.

• Erez Manela, Harvard University. He is the author of The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Deter-mination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2007), winner of the Stuart Bernath Book Prize, finalist for Lionel Gelber Prize, and winner of the Akira Iriye International Book Award.

• Mary E. Sarotte, University of Southern California. She is the author of 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe (Princeton University Press, 2009), winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize 2010 Award of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, co-winner of the 2010 Marshall Shulman Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, winner of the 2009 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies. 

• Jennifer Siegel, Ohio State University. She is the author of Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia (I.B. Tauris, 2002), winner of the AAASS Barbara Jelavich Prize.

• David Stone, Kansas State University. He is the author of Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union (University Press of Kansas, 2000), winner of the Shulman Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Best First Book Prize of the Historical Society. His most recent book is A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya (Praeger, 2006).

• Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente (Harvard University Press, 2003), winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Prize. His most recent book is Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Harvard University Press, 2007).

• Jonathan Winkler, Wright State University. He is the author of Nexus: Strategic Commu-nications and American Security in World War I (Harvard University Press, 2008), winner of the Theodore & Franklin Roosevelt Naval History Prize.