Mark Philip Bradley

Mark Philip Bradley is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of History and the College, and serves as the Faculty Director of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.

Professor Bradley’s research focuses on the global history of human rights, twentieth century U.S. international history, and postcolonial Southeast Asia.

He is the author of The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2016); Vietnam at War: The Search for Meaning (Oxford University Press, 2009); Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919–1950 (University of North Carolina Press, 2000); and co-editor of Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights (Rutgers University Press, 2002).

Professor Bradley’s human rights teaching includes the Human Rights in World Civilizations core sequence; History of Human Rights (on campus and for the Pozen Center’s Human Rights Study Abroad Program in Vienna); Arts and Human Rights; and the graduate colloquium on writing human rights history.  

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