John Lewis Gaddis

Professor John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military & Naval History and Director of the Brady Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University. Professor Gaddis is considered an expert on the life of George Kennan and the Cold War, teaching courses in Cold War history, grand strategy, international studies, and biography. Gaddis received his BA, MA, and PhD at the University of Texas, Austin and taught at Ohio University before joining Yale's staff. He has published numerous books such as, "The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947," (Stuart L. Bernath Prize, National Historical Society Prize, Bancroft Prize) "Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security," and the "George F. Kennan: An American Life" (National Book Critics Circle Award, American History Book Prize, Pulitzer Prize). He was also the former President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1992.