Dr. David Engerman

Biography

David C. Engerman is a scholar of twentieth-century international history. He has a dual training in American and Russian/Soviet history, having earned his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1998. He authored several influential books, including 'Modernization Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development' (Harvard, 2003) and 'Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts' (Oxford, 2009). His research covers a wide range of topics related to historical development assistance and he co-edited a volume titled 'Staging Growth: Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War' (U-Mass Press, 2003). Engerman's monograph 'Price Aid: Economic Cold War in India' was published by Harvard in 2018. He has received grants and fellowships from numerous prestigious organizations, including the American Council of Learned Societies and the Guggenheim Foundation. Engerman’s recent research focuses on the geopolitics of international economic inequality in the second half of the twentieth century. He has been a faculty member at Yale University for nineteen years after teaching at Brandeis University.

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