Dr. Charlie Laderman

Biography

Charlie Laderman is a Senior Lecturer in International History at King's College London and a core team member directing the Centre for Grand Strategy. Prior to joining King's, he was a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, and has held positions such as Harrington Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Laderman's latest book, 'Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's March into Global War' (Basic Books, 2021), co-written with Brendan Simms, has been shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History. His previous work includes 'Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order' (Oxford University Press, 2019), which received the H. Wayne Morgan Prize from the Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He has published numerous articles on global affairs in major publications including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Laderman has a strong educational background with a bachelor's degree in history and politics from the University of Nottingham, followed by an MPhil and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on U.S. relations with the wider world, transatlantic relations, and the intersection of U.S. foreign policy with domestic politics. He supervises PhD students in American and British history, with particular emphasis on international relations and foreign policy.

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