Dr. Christopher Moran

Biography

Christopher Moran is a Professor of National Security at the University of Warwick, where he also serves as Deputy Chair and Deputy Vice-Provost for Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences. He has a robust academic background, having completed a BA in History in 2003, an MA in 2004, and a PhD in 2009. He held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2008 to 2011, where he worked on a project titled 'Landscapes of Secrecy: CIA Contested Record Foreign Policy' that included a six-month Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. From 2011 to 2014, he held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship focusing on the history of Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and the CIA. He started as an Assistant Professor in 2012, became an Associate Professor in 2014, and was promoted to Professor in August 2021. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy and has undertaken a fellowship at the Global National Security Institute, University of South Florida. His research interests lie at the intersection of International Security, Diplomatic History, and Intelligence Studies, particularly focusing on the work of British and American secret services. He is the author of two monographs and four co-edited collections, contributing a significant number of articles to leading journals in his field.

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