Melvyn P. Leffler

Edward Stettinius Professor of History (1986)

On Leave: Fall 2010 - Spring 2011

Office: Nau 452

Phone: (434) 924-6422

Email: mpl4j (at) virginia.edu

Fields & Specialties

History of U.S. Foreign Relations

B.S. Cornell 1966
Ph.D. Ohio State 1972

George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association, 2008

For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (Hill & Wang, 2007).

The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953 (Hill & Wang, 1994).

A Preponderance of Power: National Security, The Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford University Press, 1992.

The Elusive Quest: America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919-1933. University of North Carolina Press, 1979.

Randolph Jennings Fellow, United States Institute of Peace, 2004-2005.

Henry Kissinger Fellow, Library of Congress, 2004-2005.

Harmsworth Professor, University of Oxford, 2002-2003.

Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center, 2001-2002.

Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, 1997-2001.

President, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, 1994.

Bancroft, Ferrell, and Hoover Prizes for the best book, 1993.

Fellowship, Norwegian Nobel Peace Institute, 1993, 1997.

American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowships, Grants-in-Aid, 1973, 1984-85.

Lehrman Institute Fellowship, 1984-85.

I am currently editing a three volume Cambridge History of the Cold War and beginning work on a book on George W. Bush and American foreign policy.