Melvyn Leffler
Melvyn P. Leffler received a B.S. from Cornell University in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1972. He is the Edward Stettinius Professor of American History at the University of Virginia and Compton Visiting Professor at UVA’s Miller Center. Leffler has written several books on the Cold War and on U.S. relations with Europe, including For the Soul of Mankind which won the George Louis Beer Prize from the American Historical Association, A Preponderance of Power which won the Bancroft, Hoover, and Ferrell Prizes and most recently, Safeguarding Democratic Nationalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015. In 2010, he and Odd Arne Westad co-edited the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War. Along with Jeff Legro and Will Hitchcock, he is co-editor of Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World. He has served as president of the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations, Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University, and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is now writing about the foreign policies of the George W. Bush administration.
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