Visiting Speakers

Michael Latham

Professor of History, Dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill
Fordham University

Michael Latham joined the Fordham faculty in 1996.  His teaching and research center on twentieth-century American history, the history of U.S. foreign relations, and the global history of the Cold War.

Jonathan Levy

Assistant Professor of History
Princeton University

Jonathan Levy is a historian of American capitalism, with a particular focus upon the long nineteenth-century.

Jeff Madrick

Columnist and Critic

Jeff Madrick is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a former economics columnist for The New York Times.

Peter Mandler

Professor of Modern Cultural History
Bailey College Lecturer in History, Gonville and Caius College
University of Cambridge

Peter Mandler is Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Bailey Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College. He teaches and writes on modern British history and the history of the social sciences. His most recent book, Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War, was published by Yale University Press in 2013. He is currently working on the democratization of education in postwar Britain and the language of the social sciences in everyday life in postwar Britain and America. From 2012 to 2016 he is President of the Royal Historical Society.<

Benjamin Markovits

Novelist, Professor
University of London

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas and London, where he now lives. He teaches at the University of London. He contributes to the New York Times, The Paris Review, Granta, the Times Literary Supplement, and others.

Daniel Mendelsohn

Writer, Critic and Translator and Author

Daniel Mendelsohn is an award-winning writer, critic and translator and author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006).

Stephen Mihm

Associate Professor
University of Georgia

Stephen Mihm is the author, with Nouriel Roubini, of Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance (2010) and A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (2007).

Samuel Moyn

Professor of Law
Harvard University

Samuel Moyn is professor of law and history at Harvard University. He earned a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 2001.