American historian who reassessed Soviet intervention in the Spanish Civil War using declassified archives
Born in Burns, Oregon, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001 under Stanley G. Payne. His 2004 book Stalin and the Spanish Civil War (Columbia University Press) drew on declassified Soviet documents to argue that Operation X, Stalin's military intervention in Spain, was enormously ambitious but an operational failure, becoming a landmark of post-Cold War revisionist historiography. He teaches European history and Holocaust studies at Queen's University Belfast and continues to research interwar Europe and the internationalization of the Spanish Civil War.
Career Timeline
- 2001Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (advisor: Stanley G. Payne)
- 2001–2005Lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis, American University in Cairo, and University of Bristol
- 2004Stalin and the Spanish Civil War published (Columbia University Press)
- 2005–현재Lecturer, School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast
- 2005–2010Series editor, Soviet and Finnish volumes, British Documents on Foreign Affairs