Jeremi Suri

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Jeremi Suri
Suri at the 2022 Texas Book Festival.
SpouseAlison Alter
Children2
Academic background
Alma materStanford University, A.B. 1994
Ohio University, M.A. 1996
Yale University, Ph.D. 2001
ThesisConvergent Responses to Disorder: Cultural Revolution and Détente among the Great Powers during the 1960s
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas at Austin
University of Wisconsin–Madison (2001–2011)
Websitejeremisuri.net
Notes

Jeremi Suri is an American historian and the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

Life[edit]

He graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's in history in 1994. He then obtained a master's in history from Ohio University followed by a Ph.D. in history from Yale University.[3] While at Yale, he wrote a dissertation titled "Convergent Responses to Disorder: Cultural Revolution and Détente among the Great Powers during the 1960s.[4]"

Suri has received many prizes for his teaching and research.[5] In 2007, Smithsonian Magazine named him one of America's "Top Young Innovators" in the Arts and Sciences.[5]

In 2012, Suri was Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Global Leadership, History, and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin.[5][2] That year, he spoke at the independently organized TedxSMU event.[5]

Jeremi is a frequent public lecturer and guest on radio and television programs.[5] His writings appear widely in blogs and print media, including Foreign Policy.[6][5]

He has said that he is half Jewish and half Hindu.[7]

Works[edit]

External videos
video icon In-depth discussion of Henry Kissinger and the American Century, sponsored by the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, 2013.

Books[edit]

  • Civil War By Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight For Democracy New York: Public Affairs (2022). ISBN 978-1541758544.
  • Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (2009). ISBN 978-0674044166.
  • Henry Kissinger and the American Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (2009). ISBN 978-0674281943.
  • Liberty's Surest Guardian: Rebuilding Nations After War from the Founders to Obama. New York: Free Press (2012). ISBN 978-1439119136.
  • The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office. New York: Basic Books (2017). ISBN 978-0465093908.[8]

Selected articles[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Alison Alter Biography". Austin City Council. Retrieved 2020-06-21. Council Member Alter lives in the Rosedale neighborhood with her husband Dr. Jeremi Suri, a professor of leadership, international history and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, and their two wonderful children, Natalie and Zachary.
  2. ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  3. ^ "Suri, Jeremi | LBJ School of Public Affairs". lbj.utexas.edu. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  4. ^ Suri, Jeremi. "Jeremi Suri" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Jeremi Suri at TEDxSMU 2012.
  6. ^ "Jeremi Suri – Foreign Policy". Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  7. ^ Laroi, Heather (2007). "The Big Picture". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  8. ^ Beschloss, Michael (2017-10-30). "Do Americans Need a Prime Minister?". New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-02-05.

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