
Mark Philip Bradley
استاد · Twentieth Century US International History
University of Chicagoمعرفی
Mark Philip Bradley is the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of International History and the College at the University of Chicago. He holds affiliations with the Department of History, the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, and the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. He earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1995 and has served as editor of the American Historical Review since 2021. His research focuses on twentieth-century US international history, global human rights politics, and postcolonial Southeast Asia.
- PhD: Harvard University, 1995
- Educational Background: Advanced training in American and Southeast Asian history
Bradley’s work bridges transnational and global perspectives, examining how US foreign policy intersected with decolonization and human rights movements. His books include The World Reimagined (2016), Vietnam at War (2009), and Imagining Vietnam and America (2000), which won the Harry J. Benda Prize. His current project is an intellectual history of the global South under contract with Yale University Press.
His recent articles analyze themes like Cold War diplomacy, human rights discourse, and cultural memory. Notable publications include explorations of Vietnamese nationalism, postcolonial identity, and transnational historiography.
- 2022: Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2021: Editor of American Historical Review
- 2014: Presidential Address at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Bradley advises on grants related to global history and human rights, and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams at the Pozen Center and Society of Fellows. He is a leading voice in redefining America’s role in transnational frameworks.




