Erez Manela is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches international history and the history of the United States in the world.
Manela is director of Graduate Programs at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the longtime co-chair of the Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS). In addition, he co-edits the book series on Global and International History at Cambridge University Press.
He has worked in several areas of 20th century international history. His current research examines the global discourse about World War II as a "race war" and how it shaped visions for the postwar international order. His main regions of expertise outside the US are Asia and the Middle East, but his longstanding interests in conceptual, methodological, and historiographical questions in international history makes him a versatile study leader for a broad range of destinations.
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