Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman (Stanford University, 1988) is the Dwight E. Stanford Chair in U.S. Foreign Relations. She is the author of several books, including The Rich Neighbor Policy: Rockefeller and Kaiser in Brazil (Yale, 1992), which won the Allan Nevins Prize and the Stuart Bernath Award, and All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s (Harvard, 1998). She is co-editor of Major Problems in American History with Edward Blum, and recently wrote her first novel, Broken Promises: A Novel of the Civil War, which won the 2009 San Diego Book Award for "Best Historical Fiction." She has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Organization of American States, and research support from the John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Rockefeller Family Archives. Professor Cobbs Hoffman currently writes articles for both scholarly and popular journals, and has served on the editorial boards of Diplomatic History and the Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations. She also recently served as a member of the Historical Advisory Committee to the U.S. Department of State, and the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Her research interests include U.S., European, Third World, and Latin American history. This year (2010-2011), Professor Cobbs Hoffman is on leave at Stanford's Hoover Institution for War, Revolution, and Peace, where she is a writing a new history of American foreign relations from 1776 to the present.