Martin Jay Sherwin

Professor Martin Jay Sherwin is University Professor of History at George Mason University. For 27 years, Professor Sherwin served as the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University, and is now emeritus. He has held positions at  Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of California, Berkeley. He is a historian on U.S. foreign policy in Cold War era with special interest in the history of the nuclear arms race. Professor Sherwin is a Winner of the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize for Biography for "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (co-author Kai Bird). Additionally, he was an American History Book Prize and Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1976 for A World Destroyed (current subtitle:"Hiroshima and Its Legacies"). Lastly, Professor Sherwin is a recipient of NEH awards for documentary film on Igor Kurchatov "Stalin's Bomb Maker). His current project focuses on "Gambling With Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to Havana" (A Long History of the Cuban Missile Crisis). Professor Sherwin was a founding director and executive producer for the Global Classroom Project, which linked his Tufts University students with students in Moscow (USSR) in order to engage in conversations about nuclear arms and its impact on the environment.