Odd Arne Westad#

• 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

• 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

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

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