About

Mary Elise Sarotte
Professor of International Relations

Contact Information
Office: VKC 330
Phone: (213) 740-3480
E-mail: sarotte@usc.edu

 

Biographical Sketch
Mary Elise Sarotte's newest book, 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe, appeared with Princeton University Press on 9 November 2009, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It won the 2009 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies and was reviewed in Foreign Affairs, The New York Review of Books, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Sarotte's other publications include the books Dealing with the Devil and German Military Reform and European Security, as well as various scholarly articles. She has also worked as a journalist for Time, Die Zeit, and The Economist and appears as a political commentator on the BBC, CNN International and Sky News. Sarotte earned her BA in History and Science at Harvard and her PhD in History at Yale. After graduate school, she served as a White House Fellow, and subsequently joined the faculty of the University of Cambridge. She received tenure there in 2004 and became a member of the Royal Historical Society before returning to the US to teach at USC. Sarotte is a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
 

Education
A.B. History and Science, Harvard University, 6/1988
M.A. History, Yale University, 5/1990
M.A. History M.Phil., Yale University, 5/1994
Ph.D. History, Yale University, 12/1998
 

Postdoctoral Training
Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 09/1996-05/1999  
 
 
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