Jeremi Suri
E. Gordon Fox Professor of History

eMail: suri@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)263-1852
Office: 5119 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 5025 Mosse Humanities

Website:
http://jeremisuri.net/
Power and Protest (Book)
Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Book)
WAGE Profile
Smithsonian Magazine (Article)(pdf)
Wired Magazine (Article)
American Historical Review (Article)

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Office Hours: TBA

Education: PhD: Yale University; MA: Ohio University; BA: Stanford University

Bio Sketch:

I define "international history" broadly. My research examines the interactions between states, peoples, and cultures -- especially in the twentieth century. I am interested in the decisions of leaders and institutions, as well as the influence of ideas and social movements. Through multiarchival research I hope to "globalize" our understanding of relations among societies and America's often contested place in the world. My teaching applies this international approach to the history of American foreign relations since the eighteenth century (History 433 and 434), the global upheavals of the 1960s (History 600), great power relations since 1815 (History 901), the global history of the Cold War (History 753), and the history of imperialism (History 703).

Research Interests:

International History, Politics, Social Movements, Globalization.

Selected Publications:

• Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Harvard University Press, 2007).
• The Global Revolutions of 1968 (W.W. Norton, 2006).
• Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (Harvard University Press, 2003).
  “The Cold War, Decolonization, and Global Social Awakenings: Historical Intersections,” Cold War History 6 (August 2006), 353-63.
• “The Rise and Fall of an International Counterculture, 1960-1975,” American Historical Review 114 (February 2009), 45-68.
• “Henry Kissinger, the American Dream, and the Jewish Immigrant Experience in the Cold War,” Diplomatic History 32 (November 2008), 719-47. Another version of this article appeared as “Henry Kissinger: The Inside-Outsider,” in Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation 33 (Summer 2008), 58-92. Another version appeared as “Kissinger: The Inside-Outsider,” Reform Judaism Magazine (forthcoming, Spring 2009), approx. 10 pages.
• “Détente and Human Rights: American and West European Perspectives on International Change,” Cold War History 8 (November 2008), 527-45.
• “The Promise and Failure of ‘Developed Socialism:’ The Soviet ‘Thaw’ and the Crucible of the Prague Spring, 1964-1972,” Contemporary European History 15 (May 2006), 133-58.
• “Lyndon Johnson and the Global Disruption of 1968,” in Mitchell B. Lerner, ed., Looking Back at LBJ: White House Politics in a New Light (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005), 53-77.
• “Non-Governmental Organizations and Non-State Actors,” in Patrick Finney, ed., Palgrave Advances in International History (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 223-46.
• “The Cultural Contradictions of Cold War Education: The Case of West Berlin,” Cold War History 4 (April 2004), 1-20.
• “The Madman Nuclear Alert: Secrecy, Signaling, and Safety in October 1969,” with Scott D. Sagan, International Security 27 (Spring 2003), 150-183.
• “The Significance of the Wider World in American History,” Reviews in American History 31 (March 2003), 1-13.
• “The Early Cold War,” in Robert D. Schulzinger, ed., A Companion to American Foreign Relations (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), 215-229.
• “Explaining the End of the Cold War: A New Historical Consensus?,” Journal of Cold War Studies 4 (Fall 2002), 60-92.
• “Hamilton Fish Armstrong, the ‘American Establishment,’ and Cosmopolitan Nationalism,” Princeton University Library Chronicle 63 (Spring 2002), 438-65.
• “American Attitudes Toward Revolution,” in Alexander DeConde, Richard Dean Burns, and Fredrik Logevall, eds., Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, second edition (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002), 425-42.
• “At the Crossroads of Diplomatic and Social History: The Nuclear Revolution, Dissent, and Détente,” with Andreas Wenger, Cold War History 1 (April 2001), 1-42.
• “Rethinking Imperialism in a Comparative Context: Early Modern British and Russian Expansion in Asia,”Portuguese Studies 16 (2000), 218-39.
• “The Nuclear Revolution, Social Dissent, and the Evolution of Détente: Patterns of Interaction, 1957-74,” with Andreas Wenger, Zürcher Beiträge 56 (Summer 2000), 1-68.
• “America’s Search for a Technological Solution to the Arms Race: The History of the Surprise Attack Conference of 1958 and a Challenge for ‘Eisenhower Revisionists,’” Diplomatic History 21 (Summer 1997), 417-51.

Awards:

• 2006 Class of 1955 Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin.
• 2004 Dorothy and Hsin-Nung Yao Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin.
• 2004-2007 Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer.
• 2003 Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award.
• 2001 John Addison Porter Prize for the best dissertation in the humanities, Yale University.
• 2001 Hans Gatzke Prize for the best dissertation in international history, Yale University.

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• History 102 - The History of the United States since the Civil War - Syllabus 2008 (pdf)
• History 433 - American Foreign Relations, 1763-1901 - Syllabus 2006 (pdf)
• History 434 - American Foreign Relations, 1901-present - Syllubus 2008 (pdf)

Undergraduate Seminars:

• History 600 - Advanced Seminar in History - Topics: "Politics, Diplomacy, and Dissent in 60s"; "Empire and Intervention since the late Nineteenth Century" Syllabus 2008 (pdf)

Graduate Courses:

• History 703 - History and Theory - Topics: "Comparative Imperialisms" - Syllabus 2006 (pdf)
• History 753 - Seminar in Comparative World History - Topics: "The Cold War as World Histories" - Syllabus 2009 (pdf)
• History 900 - Introduction to History for U.S. Historians - Syllabus 2005 (pdf)
• History 901 - Studies in American History