Timothy Nunan

Timothy Nunan is a scholar of international and global history. His work focuses on the history of the Soviet Union, Iran, and Afghanistan in an international context. He received his intellectual training at Princeton (A.B., 2008), the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he was a Fulbright Scholar from 2008-2009, and Corpus Christi College of the University of Oxford (M.Phil., 2011), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. After receiving a D.Phil. in History at Oxford, he began as a Harvard Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (2013-14 and 2015-16).

He is the author of two books, Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), and Writings on War (Cambridge: Polity. 2011), a critically-annotated collection of translations of three hitherto-untranslated interwar works by the German jurist Carl Schmitt. His work has been sponsored by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, and the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX); he currently serves as the Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation.