Erez Manela

"The Wilsonian Moment and the Origins of the Postcolonial World"

Friday, Oct. 5, 2007
Noon
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

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Erez Manela is Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History at Harvard University. He specializes in 20th century international history, with particular interests in the role of the United States in the world, colonialism and nationalism in an international context, and the evolution of international society.

Manela is the author of The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2007). The book explains how perceptions of Woodrow Wilson and his rhetoric of self-determination shaped the goals and dynamics of the anti-colonial revolts that erupted in Egypt, India, China, and Korea during the spring of 1919.

His other publications include articles in the American Historical Review, International Journal, Diplomacy & Statecraft, and Middle Eastern Studies, as well as numerous essays in edited volumes.  He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Baruch/Marshall Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the John M. Olin Institute for National Security at Harvard, among others.

Manela is currently working on a history of the global campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 20th century.

He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from Yale University, where he won the John Addison Porter Prize and the Mary and Arthur Wright Prize for his dissertation.

Erez Manela
Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History
Harvard University