Prof. Kenneth Weisbrode, Ph.D.

Kenneth Weisbrode is Assistant Professor of History at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.

His specialist research area is the history of diplomacy, with a focus on American and European history of the 20th century. Within this field, he is concerned with the relations of official institutions – principally foreign offices – to informal diplomatic networks in the Atlantic region. His dissertation at Harvard University led to the book "The Atlantic Century: Four Generations of Extraordinary Diplomats who Forged America's Vital Alliance with Europe" (2009).

Kenneth Weisbrode will be a visiting fellow at the CAS in September 2011 as part of the CAS research focus "Transatlantic Cultures" following an invitation from Professor Christof Mauch.