Sean McMeekin

Sean McMeekin (born May 10, 1974 in Idaho ) is an American historian .

Life

McMeekin grew up in Rochester , New York and studied history at Stanford University (BA 1996) and the University of California, Berkeley (MA 1998 and Ph.D. 2001) as well as in Paris, Berlin and Moscow. He was u. a. Holder of the Henry Chauncey Jr. '57 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale and fellow at the Remarque Institute in New York. McMeekin taught in Turkey as an Assistant Professor at the Center for Russian Studies at Bilkent University in Ankara and at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç Universitesi in Istanbul. He is currently Professor of History at Bard College in New York.

His main research interests are modern German and Russian history , communism and the First World War . He is the author of books and essays, published in journals such as Contemporary European History and Communisme .

McMeekin is married and has two children.

2010: Norman B. Tomlinson Jr. Book Prize for The Russian Origins of the First World War
2011: Barbara Jelavich Book Prize for The Berlin-Baghdad Express
2015: Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for The Ottoman Endgame
2016: Historians Prize of the Erich-und-Erna-Kronauer-Stiftung

The Red Millionaire. A Political Biography of Willi Munzenberg , Moscow's Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West . Yale University Press, New Haven 2003, ISBN 0-300-09847-2 .
History's Greatest Heist. The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks . Yale University Press, New Haven 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-13558-9 .
The Berlin-Baghdad Express. The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-674-05739-5 .
The Russian Origins of the First World War . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-0-674-06210-8 .

German translation by Franz Leipold : Russia's path to war. The First World War - the origin of the catastrophe of the century . Europa Verlag, Berlin u. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-944305-63-9 .

July 1914. Countdown to War . Basic Books, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-465-03145-0 .

German translation by Franz Leipold: July 1914. The countdown to war . Europa Verlag, Berlin u. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-944305-48-6 .

The Ottoman Endgame: War Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908–1923 . Penguin Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-59420-532-3 .
The Russian Revolution: A New History . Basic Books, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-465-03990-6 .

↑ Our Staff , Center for Russian Studies, Bilkent University, accessed June 7, 2015.