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Overview

The George Washington Cold War group (GWCW) works closely with the National Security Archive and the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Project (home of the Digital Archive focused on Cold War history) to build a community of faculty, scholars, and graduate students dedicated to encouraging a multilingual, multi-disciplinary and multi-national exploration of the Cold War experience and its implications for understanding current policy issues.

Founded in 2000, GWCW promotes research and scholarship on this critical period in international affairs and strives to elucidate the ways in which Cold War legacies (economic, political, psychological, military, and environmental) affect public policy in many parts of the world. GWCW supports the work of the next generation of Cold War scholars by co-hosting the annual Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War which rotates among GWU, the London School of Economics and the University of California at Santa Barbara. The next conference will be held at GWU from May 2-4, 2024.

For more information, please contact Hope M. Harrison at hopeharr@gwu.edu.

GWCW faculty members are:

Eric Arnesen (the Cold War in the US) https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/eric-arnesen

Aaron Bateman (the Cold War in space, intelligence, science and technology) https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/aaron-bateman

Steven Brady (the US, military history, and the Cold War) https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/steven-brady

Gregg Brazinsky (the Cold War in Asia) https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/gregg-brazinsky

Gema Kloppe-Santamaria (Latin America, Mexico, and the Cold War) https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/gema-kloppe-santamaria

Hope M. Harrison (the Cold War in Germany, Russia and Europe) https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/hope-harrison

James G. Hershberg (the US and the global Cold War) https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/james-hershberg

The GW Cold War Group will host the 2024 annual Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War from May 2-4. The conference offers an excellent opportunity for graduate students to present papers and receive critical feedback from peers and experts in the field. We encourage submissions by graduate students from around the globe working on any aspect of the Cold War, broadly defined. Applications are due by Feb. 9, 2024. Please click the button below to access the full call for papers.