Erez Manela

Erez Manela is an Israeli-American historian and professor. He is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History at Harvard University, as well as a director of graduate student programs at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He is an expert in American foreign policy in the twentieth century and Wilsonianism.

Biography

Manela was born and raised in Haifa. He attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied Middle Eastern studies and East Asian studies. After receiving his bachelor's degree, he received a Ph.D. in history from Yale University, where he studied under John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy, and Jonathan Spence.
He joined the history faculty at Harvard University in 2003. In 2007, Manela published The Wilsonian Moment, which reframed Wilsonianism in the context of independence movements across Europe and Asia.