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Daniel J. Sargent is an associate professor at the University of California, with joint appointments in the Department of History and the Goldman School of Public Policy. He is a historian specializing in U.S. foreign policy history and international relations. His research has explored how states and decision-makers adapt to long-term changes in international environments and the historical advances of globalization. He is currently interested in how the United States has strived to sustain international order over a long arc of history, particularly how policymakers use historical grand strategic concepts to inform the work of policymaking. Sargent earned his PhD in History from Harvard University in 2008, following a Bachelor of Arts with double-first class honors from Cambridge University in 2001. He has held pre-doctoral fellowships at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard. He was the inaugural Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Fellow in International Security Studies at Yale University from 2007 to 2008 and a William C. Bark National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 2018-2019. Sargent has taught at Berkeley since 2008, and his book, "Superpower Transformed: Remaking American Foreign Relations in the 1970s," published by Oxford University Press in 2015, analyzes how decision-makers in the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations adapted or failed to adapt to changes in the international environment. He has recently completed a manuscript on the history of the U.S.-centered "liberal" world order, titled "Pax Americana." Sargent has been recognized with the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Division of Social Sciences at Berkeley and the Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize from the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations in 2017.