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223 Moses Hall
Mary Sarotte is a Professor of History and International Relations at the University of Southern California and is currently a Visiting Professor in both the Government and History Departments at Harvard. She is working on a study of the end of the Cold War, titled THE COLLAPSE: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall, which will publish in October 2014. Her book, 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe (2009) was a Financial Times Book of the Year. It became the first book to win both the Ferrell Prize (for distinguished scholarship on US foreign policy) and the Shulman Prize (for distinguished scholarship on Communist bloc foreign policy); it also received the DAAD Prize for distinguished scholarship in German and European studies. Sarotte earned her AB at Harvard, her PhD in history at Yale, was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES).