# Erez Manela (馬內拉) Member of the Advisory Council ![Erez Manela](/sites/g/files/omnuum1371/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/globalpoliticalthought/files/erez-manela_photo-by-tony-rinaldo_373px_0-2.jpg?itok=bMHpPxOz) location\_on 35 Quincy Street | Cambridge, MA 02138 email laptop\_windows [Erez Manela's Academic Profile](https://scholar.harvard.edu/manela/home) laptop\_windows [History Department, Harvard University](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/erez-manela) laptop\_windows [Fairbank Centre for Chinese Studies](https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/profiles/erez-manela/) Erez Manela (埃雷茲·馬內拉) is a historian of the international society in global contexts, currently Professor of History at Harvard University. He directs the Graduate Programs at Harvard's [Weatherhead Center for International Affairs](https://wcfia.harvard.edu/people/erez-manela), co-chairs the [Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS)](https://highs.fas.harvard.edu/highs), and co-edits a book series on [Global and International History](http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/global-history/series/global-and-international-history) at Cambridge University Press. His prize-winning *[The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-wilsonian-moment-9780195176155?cc=us&lang=en&)* (2007), co-edited volumes *[The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674061866)* (2010), and more recently, *Empires at War, 1911-23* (2014), *[The Development Century: A Global History](https://www.amazon.com/Development-Century-Global-History-International/dp/1108453473/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530032157&sr=1-4)* (2018), and the essay "[International Society as a Historical Subject](https://academic.oup.com/dh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/dh/dhz071/5739337?guestAccessKey=45feff98-c045-4047-899f-1983b4aab01d)" (2020) have enriched and expanded the thought-world of international history in the global age as a scholarly craft and a subject of historical inquiry. Amongst his contributions to the field are his conceptual, methodological, and historiographical reflections on the history of the ["United States in the world"](https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/manela/files/manela-us-world.pdf), and the "Method and Practice of International History" ([国际史的方法与实践](https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/manela/files/guo_ji_shi_de_fang_fa_yu_shi_jian_-ai_lei_zi_ma_ni_la_jiao_shou_fang_tan_lu_.pdf)). Manela has intervened in a wide range of historical topics, from the politics of smallpox eradication in global development to the experience of Asia in the "Global 1919"; from US-Egyptian relations in the interward period to the global significance of the Cairo Declaration; from Wilson, Lenin, and Roosevelt to the rise and aftermath of transnational anti-imperialist movements in the 20th century, amongst many others. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others, and was a Burkhardt Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. You may follow Manela's most recent thoughts, publications, and events [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/erezmanela). - ## People categories [Member of the Advisory Council](/people-categories/member-advisory-council)