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Mark Bradley,The United States and the Global Human Rights Imagination

The Keith L. Nelson Lecture in US International History and the Department of History Present:

The United States and the Global Human Rights Imagination
by Professor Mark Philip Bradley, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of International History, University of Chicago

Mark Philip Bradley is the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of International History and the Faculty Director of the Committee on International Relations, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, at the University of Chicago.  He is author of Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), which won the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, Vietnam at War (Oxford University Press, 2009), and The United  States and Global Human Rights Imagination (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2017). A recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Fulbright-Hays, Professor Bradley is currently undertaking research that explores the international histories of the South China Sea. He served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, is coauthoring a book on the global history of the Vietnam wars, and serves as a coeditor of the Cornell University Press series on “The United States in the World.”

The Nelson Lecture in US International History is made possible by the generous support of Keith L. Nelson, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at UCI.  He was a founding member of the History department in 1965 and, over his long career, served the campus, Humanities, and History in numerous ways, among them as director of the Center on Global Peace and Conflict Studies and of the Program in Religious Studies.  A distinguished scholar of war and peace and of international history, Nelson is the author of a variety of books and articles, including Victors Divided: America and the Allies in Germany, 1918-1923 (University of California Press, 1975), Why War? Ideology, Theory, and History [with Spencer C. Olin] (University of California Press, 1980), and The Making of Détente: Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam (Johns Hopkins Press, 1994).  He helped to pioneer the modern study of what war does to nations, editing The Impact of War on American Life: The Twentieth Century Experience in 1970.  He was a Fulbright Professor in Sweden in 1990 and later Director of the UC Study Center there and in Denmark.  He was recently the recipient of the annual Edward A. Dickson award, given to emeritus faculty in recognition of outstanding contributions to the university.

For additional information, please contact the UCI Department of History at (949) 824-6521 or history@uci.edu.