Steven Brady

Areas of Expertise

• 20th-century United States
• Cold War
• Diplomatic History

  Steve Brady is a diplomatic historian, with special research interests in German-American relations, early United States foreign relations, and the early Cold War. He also has teaching interests in military history, U.S. peace movements, European diplomatic history, and the presidency. His first 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. He recently completed a manuscript for the book Chained to History: Slavery and United States Foreign Relations to 1865 (Forthcoming,  Cornell University Press:  2021). His current book project is The Bond of Peace:  American Catholics and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975. 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.