Stella Ghervas

Stella Ghervas is Professor and Eugen Weber Chair in Modern European History at UCLA. Her research explores intellectual and international history of modern Europe, with special focus on the history of peace, Russian maritime history, and the Black Sea region.

Key research areas include:

• Historical peacemaking processes from Enlightenment to EU formation
• Russian intellectual history and Black Sea maritime networks
• Diplomatic traditions of the Holy Alliance
• Transnational cultural history of peace
• Conference diplomacy and international systems

Her award-winning book 'Conquering Peace' analyzes how peace was constructed after major European conflicts. She is currently researching a new history of the Black Sea and editing an anthology of peace texts. Professor Ghervas has received numerous honors including the Guizot Prize from the Académie Française and visiting appointments at Harvard, Columbia, and the Institute for Advanced Study.

Her work demonstrates how peacebuilding frameworks evolved through diplomatic innovations, with recent scholarship examining the historical foundations of European cooperation and conflict resolution mechanisms.