Arthur Waldron

Arthur Waldron
Photograph of Waldron taken by Richard Greenly in 2014
Born
Arthur Nelson Waldron

(1948-12-13) 13 December 1948 (age 75)
Alma materHarvard
Known forThe Great Wall of China: From History to Myth
SpouseXiaowei Yu (1988-present)
Scientific career
FieldsChinese history, comparative nationalism, integrative history, military history, international relations, Russian history
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Naval War College
Brown
Princeton
Doctoral advisorPhilip A. Kuhn, Joseph F. Fletcher Jr.
Other academic advisorsYingshih Yü, Frederick Mote, Richard Pipes

Arthur Waldron (born December 13, 1948) is an American historian. Since 1997, Waldron has been the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the department of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He works chiefly on Asia, China in particular, often with a focus on the origins and development of nationalism, and the study of war and violence in general.