Steven Brady

Steve Brady is a free-range historian of international relations and the military and society, with special research interests in religion and foreign relations, German-American relations, US relations with the Holy See, early United States foreign relations, and paradiplomacy. He also has teaching interests in military history and U.S. peace movements. His book Eisenhower and Adenauer: Alliance Maintenance under Pressure (Lexington/Harvard Cold War Studies), examines the West German-American relationship in a crucial decade of the Cold War. His most recent book is Chained to History: Slavery and United States Foreign Relations to 1865 (Cornell University Press, 2022).

His next book, "Less than Victory: American Catholics and the Vietnam War,” is forthcoming in October 2025 from Cambridge University Press in the Series “Military, War, and Society in Modern American History.”  His current projects are "Reason of States:  The Paradiplomacy of American Governors"; and “Adlai Stevenson:  The Life and Legacy of a Liberal Icon” (Under advance contract with University of Illinois Press).

Prior to joining the faculty at George Washington, he taught at the University of Notre Dame, where he was a First Year academic advisor for seventeen years. While at Notre Dame, he was honored with three teaching awards, including the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, CSC, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He serves as the undergraduate advisor in the Department.

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