Fraser J. Harbutt, Professor, (B.A., LL.B., University of Otago, New Zealand, 1960; LL.M., University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1967; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1976). International history, U.S. Political and Diplomatic History, U.S.-Soviet Relations, Cold War history. Author of The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America and the Origins of the Cold War (Oxford University Press, 1986), which co-won the Stuart L. Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations given for best first or second book in American Diplomatic History; The Cold War Era (Blackwell, 2001); and Yalta 1945: Europe and America at the Crossroads (Cambridge University Press, 2010) which won the Southern Historians Association’s Charles White Prize in European History, received a Special Citation from the Academy of American Diplomacy, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
I am now completing Churchill and America, a semi-biographical study, and am currently interested in the varying definitions of the American diplomatic tradition and the general problems of transition between successive international orders.
My Curriculum Vitae
Education
- BA, University of Otago, 1960.
- LLB, University of Otago, 1960.
- LLM, University of Auckland, 1967.
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1976.
Interests
- International history.
- U.S. diplomatic and political history.
- Cold War history.
- British history.
- Legal history