As part of the International History Forum, the International History Department at the Graduate Institute is pleased to invite you to a public talk given by Professor Andrew Preston (University of Cambridge).

In line with the Graduate Institute's COVID-19 regulations, physical attendance to this event has been limited to International History Department Masters and pre MPT Ph.D. students. In order to view this even to online, please use this link.

About the Speaker

Professor Preston specialises in the history of American foreign relations. More specifically, his teaching and research interests lie in the intersections between the national and the international, the foreign and the domestic, including the influence that domestic politics and culture—particularly religion—have had on the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. He is currently working on a book on the idea of “national security” in American history (to be published by Harvard University Press).

Professor Preston's work has appeared in Washington Post, The New Republic, London Review of Books, The Globe & Mail, USA Today, History Today, Boston Globe, New Statesman, Politico, TLS, and Foreign Affairs, among others. He sits on the editorial boards of Modern American History, The Historical Journal, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, and Diplomacy & Statecraft. He has also been recently elected as Vice President/President-elect of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) and is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians (OAH). Furthermore with Professor Beth Bailey, he is also the co-editor of a new book series with Cambridge University Press on "Military, War, and Society in Modern American History."