Sean McMeekin

Francis Flournoy Professor of European History and Culture

Primary Academic Program: Historical Studies

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Global and International Studies, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Biography:

Sean McMeekin teaches courses in modern European, Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet history. He has also taught at Koç University in Istanbul, Yale, Bilkent in Ankara, and NYU. He is the author of Stalin’s War (2021); The Russian Revolution (2017); The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2015, awarded the Arthur Goodzeit Book Prize); July 1914: Countdown to War (2013, reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Book Review); The Russian Origins of the First World War (2011, winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson Jr. Book Prize); The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power (2010, winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize); History’s Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks (2008); The Red Millionaire (2004); and numerous articles and essays. McMeekin also reviews books regularly for the Sunday Times, The Literary Review, American Historical Review, History Today, Journal of Modern History, Slavic Review, and Journal of Cold War Studies.

BA, Stanford; MA, PhD, UC Berkeley. At Bard since 2014.
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