Hannah Gurman brings an interdisciplinary and eclectic approach to the study of U.S. foreign relations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that reflects her training in literary and cultural studies and informs her dual focus on historical scholarship and contemporary commentary. Her work has appeared in Diplomatic History and The Journal of Contemporary History , as well as Salon, Huffington Post, and Small Wars Journal. She is a columnist for the digital think tank, Foreign Policy in Focus, and the author of The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond , published in 2012 by Columbia University Press. She is currently editing a volume on counterinsurgency for the New Press.

