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Jennifer Siegel

Bruce R. Kuniholm Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708
208 Sanford Building, Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Jennifer Siegel specializes in modern European diplomatic and military history, with a focus on the British and Russian Empires. She is the author of For Peace and Money: French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars (Oxford University Press: 2014)  and Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia (I.B. Tauris, 2002), which won the 2003 AAASS Barbara Jelavich Prize. She has published articles on intelligence history, and co-edited Intelligence and Statecraft : The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society (Praeger, 2005). Professor Siegel teaches classes on European diplomatic and military history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, international relations, comparative empires, modern intelligence history, the origins of wars, and the history of oil.  Her current research projects include: 1) an exploration of the diplomacy of the First World War; 2) a project on the Rothschilds and the early Russian oil industry; and 3) a book on civilian intelligence in occupied Belgium during the First World War.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Bruce R. Kuniholm Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy · 2021 - Present Sanford School of Public Policy
Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy · 2021 - Present Sanford School of Public Policy
Professor of History · 2022 - Present History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

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Recent Publications


Endgame Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia

Book · September 17, 2020 By 1914 Britain and Russia were on the brink of war with each other to be saved only by the outbreak of World War I. This book is a groundbreaking and original study based on hitherto unseen archives in Moscow and St Petersburg, as well as ... ... Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Yale University · 1998 Ph.D.
Yale University · 1990 B.A.