Melvyn P. Leffler

Melvyn Paul Leffler (born May 31, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York)^[1] is an American historian and educator, currently Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia.^[2]

Life

The son of businessman Louis and Mollie Leffler, he married historian Phyllis Koran on September 1, 1968; they have one daughter, Sarah Ann and one son, Elliot.

Education

Leffler received a B.S. from Cornell University in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1972.

Career

Leffler taught at Vanderbilt University as assistant professor in 1972-77, and associate professor of history in 1977-2002. He was chairman of the department of history and dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia in 1997-2001. In 1994 he was president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He was Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford in 2002-2003.

Awards

2008 George Louis Beer Prize for For the Soul of Mankind: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
2004-2005 Randolph Jennings Fellow, United States Institute of Peace
2004-2005 Henry Kissinger Fellow, Library of Congress ^[3]
2001-2002 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow
1993 Bancroft Prize for A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War
1993 Ferrell Prize
1993 Hoover Prizes
1993, 1997 Norwegian Nobel Peace Institute Fellowship
1973, 1984-85 American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowships, Grants-in-Aid
1984-85 Lehrman Institute Fellowship

Selected publications

For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. New York, NY: Hill & Wang. 2007. ISBN 978-0-809-09717-3.
"The Beginning and the End: Time, Context, and the Cold War". In Olav Njølstad, ed., The Last Decade of the Cold War: From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation. London & New York, NY: Frank Cass. 2004. pp. 23–49. ISBN 978-0-7146-8539-7.
"Bringing It Together: Parts and the Whole". In Odd Arne Westad, ed., Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory. London & Portland, OR: Frank Cass. 2000. pp. 43–63. ISBN 978-0-714-65072-2.
Paul Kennedy, William I. Hitchcock, eds. (2000). "American Grand Strategy from World War to Cold War 1940-1950". From war to peace: altered strategic landscapes in the twentieth century. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08010-0.
"Inside Enemy Archives: The Cold War Reopened", Foreign Affairs, July/August 1996
Eric Foner, ed. (1994). The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953. Hill and Wang. ISBN 978-0-8090-1574-0.
Gordon Martel, ed. (1994). "The interpretative wars over the Cold War 1945-1960". American foreign relations reconsidered, 1890-1993. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-10476-0.
Michael J. Hogan, Thomas G. Paterson, eds. (2004). "National Security". Explaining the history of American foreign relations. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-54035-3. (2nd edition)
A Preponderance of Power: National Security, The Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8047-2218-6.
Loyd E. Lee, eds. (1991). "Adherence to Agreements: Yalta and the Experiences of the Early Cold War". World War II: crucible of the contemporary world: commentary and readings. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-87332-732-9.
Ellis Wayne Hawley, ed. (1981). "Herbert Hoover, the "New Era," and American Foreign Policy 1921-1929". Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce: studies in New Era thought and practice. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-109-9.
The Elusive Quest: America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919-1933. University of North Carolina Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-8078-1333-1.

Editor

(Co-editor with Odd Arne Westad). The Cambridge History of the Cold War 3 Volume Set. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-83938-9.
(Co-editor with Jeffrey Legro). To Lead the World: After the Bush Doctrine. Oxford University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-536941-0.
(Co-editor with David S. Painter). Origins of the Cold War: An International History (2nd ed.). New York & London: Routledge. 2005 [1994]. ISBN 978-0-415-34109-7.

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