Jeffrey A. Engel
Associate Professor
Jeffrey A. Engel teaches history at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, where he is an associate professor, the Verlin and Howard Kruse '52 Founders Professor, and director of programming for the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs. A graduate of Cornell University, he additionally studied at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, and received his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to the Bush School, he was an Olin Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, and a lecturer in history and international relations at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is author of numerous journal articles and Cold War at 30,000 Feet: the Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy (Harvard University Press, 2007), which was awarded the biannual 2008 Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association. He also edited Local Consequences of the Global Cold War (Stanford University Press, 2008); The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President (Princeton University Press, 2008); The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989 (Oxford University Press, 2009); and, with Joseph Cerami, Rethinking Leadership and "Whole of Government" National Security Reform: Problems, Progress, and Prospects (Strategic Studies Institute).
A member of the editorial board of Diplomatic History, the Executive Council of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Leadership Council of the Transatlantic Studies Association, he is currently writing Seeking Monsters to Destroy: Language and War from Thomas Jefferson to George W. Bush (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and When the World Seemed New: American Foreign Policy in the Age of George H.W. Bush (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, forthcoming).
