Dr. Mark Bradley

Biography

Mark Philip Bradley is the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of International History at the University of Chicago. He completed his PhD at Harvard University in 1995. His scholarly work focuses on the intersections of 20th-century international history and global history, particularly in relation to human rights politics and postcolonial studies in Southeast Asia. He has authored several influential works, including "World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century" (2016) and "The Vietnam War" (2009), and has contributed to important edited volumes such as "Making Forever War" (2021) and "Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts in the Transnational Turn" (2015). His writing has appeared in prestigious journals including the American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of World History, and Diplomatic History. Currently, he is engaged in a project on the intellectual and cultural history of the global South, which is under contract with Yale University Press.

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