Melvyn P. Leffler
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Melvyn P. Leffler is an American historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

, and Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
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Life

He graduated from Cornell University
Cornell University
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 in 1966, and from Ohio State University
Ohio State University
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 with a Ph.D. in 1972.
He taught at Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University
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He was Harmsworth Professor, at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
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 from 2002-2003.
He was Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

, from 1997-2001.
In 1994, he was President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
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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
    United States Institute of Peace
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  • 2004-2005 Henry Kissinger Fellow, Library of Congress
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  • 2001-2002 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
    Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
    The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , located in Washington, D.C., is a United States Presidential Memorial that was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution by an act of Congress in 1968...

     Fellow
  • 1993 Bancroft Prize
    Bancroft Prize
    The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948 by a bequest from Frederic Bancroft...

    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

Works


(2nd edition)

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