Odd Arne Westad

Arne Westad
FBA
Headshot of Westad, who wears glasses
Westad in 2015
Born
Odd Arne Westad

(1960-01-05) January 5, 1960 (age 64)
NationalityNorwegian
Education
OccupationHistorian
Known for
  • International relations
  • diplomacy
  • Asia
  • history
OfficeElihu Professor of History and Global Affairs, Yale University
Websiteoaw.cn

Odd Arne Westad FBA (born 5 January 1960) is a Norwegian historian specializing in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. He is the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University, where he teaches in the Yale History Department and in the Jackson School of Global Affairs.[1] Previously, Westad held the S.T. Lee Chair of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University, teaching in the John F. Kennedy School of Government.[2] He has also taught at the London School of Economics, where he served as director of LSE IDEAS.[3] In the spring semester 2019 Westad was Boeing Company Chair in International Relations at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University.[4]

  1. ^ "Arne Westad". Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  2. ^ "Arne Westad". Harvard Kennedy School. Archived from the original on July 3, 2017.
  3. ^ "LSE International History Professor Odd Arne Westad". lse.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  4. ^ "Schwarzman Scholars". Schwarzman Scholars. Archived from the original on 2019-06-20. Retrieved 2019-05-22.