GW’s WELLING VISITING PROFESSOR JOHN LEWIS GADDIS TO DISCUSS WHAT’S NEW IN COLD WAR HISTORY

MARCH 13

BACKGROUND: 

        John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett professor of history at Yale University, and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution.  Educated at the University of Texas in Austin, Gaddis has taught at Ohio University, the United States Naval War College, the University of Helsinki, Princeton University, and Oxford University as the Harmsworth professor of American history during the 1992-1993 academic year.  During the 2000-2001 academic year, he was back at Oxford as the George Eastman visiting professor at Balliol College. 

         Gaddis is on the advisory board of the Cold War International History Project, served as a consultant on the CNN television documentary “Cold War,” and is currently working on a biography of George F. Kennan.  The Oxford University Press will publish his Eastman professor lectures, “The Landscape of History,” next year. 

         The James Clark Welling Visiting Professorship was established by GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, to allow internationally distinguished scholars in any field of study to visit the University for an annual lecture and meetings with students and faculty.  The program is named for the former GW president who served from 1871 to 1894.  Welling was distinguished by his early vision of a major and modern university. Gaddis accepted the Welling Professorship for the 2001-2003 academic years at the Elliott School.

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