
Call for Peace Chair Applications
Applications for this tenured position due October 31, 2025

Furniss Book Award Lecture featuring Tyler Jost
Join us November 6 to hear about "Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation”

Call for Postdoc Applications
Apply by November 15 for two-year appointments beginning August 24, 2026


Research & Engagement
Through research and engagement, Mershon studies the human and social dimensions of complex security challenges.

Be in the know about Mershon Center research, programs, trainings, stories, and events by receiving our weekly Mershon Memo newsletter.

The Mershon Center is proud to support "Made by History" on TIME, a leading platform dedicated to providing rigorous historical analysis of U.S. current events and public debates by the world's top historians, including some of our own Mershoners.

Mershon Postdoc Fellows Julia Marino, Helen Murphey and Nicholas Nyachega summarize each Mershon Monday on the Postdoc Blog. Mershon Mondays are a forum for relaxed sharing of field stories, work in progress, and reflections on methods and emerging areas of research.

Be in the know about Mershon Center research, programs, trainings, stories, and events by receiving our weekly Mershon Memo newsletter.

The Mershon Center is proud to support "Made by History" on TIME, a leading platform dedicated to providing rigorous historical analysis of U.S. current events and public debates by the world's top historians, including some of our own Mershoners.

Mershon Postdoc Fellows Julia Marino, Helen Murphey and Nicholas Nyachega summarize each Mershon Monday on the Postdoc Blog. Mershon Mondays are a forum for relaxed sharing of field stories, work in progress, and reflections on methods and emerging areas of research.