Odd Arne Westad#


Odd Arne Westad
Membership Number:7085
Membership type:FOREIGN
Section:HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
Elected:2025
Main Country of Residence:UNITED STATES
Homepage(s):https://history.yale.edu/people/arne-westad





Present and Previous Positions
  • Since 2019 Yale University, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs
  • 2014 - 2019 Harvard University, S.T. Lee Chair of US-Asia Relations
  • 1998 - 2014 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Department of International History
  • 1991 - 1997 Director of Research at the Nobel Institute in Oslo and adjunct professor of History at the University of Oslo

Fields of Scholarship
  • Histories of empire and imperialism
  • History of the Cold War, China-Russia relations
  • Modern history of China
  • General aspects of post-colonial and global history
  • History of the Chinese civil war and the Chinese Communist party

Honours and Awards
  • Since 2011 Fellow of the British Academy
  • Since 2016 Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

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