Dr. Jeremi Suri has a joint appointment in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the University of Texas at Austin Department of History.  Suri was previously with the University of Wisconsin, where he was the E. Gordon Fox Professor of History, the Director of the European Union Center of Excellence, and the Director of the Grand Strategy Program.  He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching, and Smithsonian Magazine named him one of America's "Top Young Innovators" in the Arts and Sciences in 2007. He is the author of five books, including the widely acclaimed biography of one of America’s most distinguished diplomats, Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Harvard University Press, 2007). His latest book, Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama, will be the Free Press/ Simon and Schuster's lead non-fiction release in the fall of 2011.

Website: http://jeremisuri.net/

Twitter Feed: http://twitter.com/#!/jeremisuri

Selected Commentary:

• "Nation-Building, Our National Pastime," Book Review by Robert Kagan in The New York Times, October 14, 2011
• "American the Overcommitted," The New York Times, October 13, 2011
• "Our Next Step in the Middle East," The Daily Beast, October 7, 2011
• At Issue with Ben Merens, Wisconsin Public Radio, October 3, 2011
• "What the Occupy Wall Street protesters want," Marketplace, October 3, 2011
• The Dylan Ratigan Show, MSNBC, September 28, 2011
• "How to leave a strong Afghanistan," CNN, September 27, 2011
• "George Washington's eerie foresight," Salon, September 22, 2011
• At Issue with Ben Merens, Wisconsin Public Radio, August 18, 2011
• "How Do We Talk To One Another?" Global Brief, June 27, 2011