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Mary Sarotte
Associate Professor of International Relations

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

 

Biographical Sketch

Professor Mary Elise Sarotte, a historian, studies international relations in the 20th century. She is an associate professor with tenure at the University of Southern California in the School of International Relations. Sarotte spent the academic year 2006-7 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, working on a monograph on the history of the late Cold War. Her other publications include the books Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Detente, and Ostpolitik (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) and German Military Reform and European Security (Oxford University Press, 2001), as well as various scholarly articles. She has also worked as a journalist in Europe for Time, Die Zeit, and The Economist (where she is currently an academic book reviewer) and appeared as a political commentator on the BBC, CNN 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 in 2001-2. When the fellowship ended, she joined the faculty of the University of Cambridge, where she received tenure in 2004 and became a member of the Royal Historical Society. Sarotte is a life 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
 
 
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