Wittner, Lawrence S. (1941-)

1. Είδος οντότητας Πρόσωπο
2. Ημερομηνία γέννησης 05 Μαίου 1941
3. Τόπος γέννησης New York N.Y.
4. Εθνικότητα American men
5. Επάγγελμα Professor
6. Συγγραφική ιδιότητα Creators scientific works
7. Φύλο Άνδρας
8. Γλώσσες Αγγλική
9. Βιογραφικά στοιχεία

   1. Lawrence S. Wittner (born May 5, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American historian who has written extensively on peace movements and foreign policy.

      He attended Columbia College (B.A., 1962), the University of Wisconsin (M.A. in history, 1963), and Columbia University (Ph.D. in history, 1967). Subsequently, he taught at Hampton Institute, at Vassar College, and—under the Fulbright program—at Japanese universities. In 1974, he began teaching at the State University of New York/Albany, where he rose to the rank of Professor of History before his retirement in 2010.

      Wittner is the author of nine books, the editor or co-editor of another four, and the author of over 250 published articles and book reviews. From 1984 to 1987, he edited Peace & Change, a journal of peace research. His article "Peace Movements and Foreign Policy" won the Charles DeBenedetti award of the Conference on Peace Research in History in 1989, and his One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953 received the Warren Kuehl Book Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1995. He received the New York State/United University Professions Excellence Award for scholarship, teaching, and service in 1990 and the Peace History Society's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.

      A former president of the Council on Peace Research in History (now the Peace History Society), an affiliate of the American Historical Association, Wittner also chaired the Peace History Commission of the International Peace Research Association.

      He has received major fellowships or grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Aspen Institute, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the United States Institute of Peace.

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   2. Αμερικανός ιστορικός, ειδικευμένος σε θέματα εξωτερικής πολιτικής των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών. Πήρε το διδακτορικό του το 1967 από το Πανεπιστήμιο Columbia. Δίδαξε στο Πανεπιστήμιο Columbia, στο Hampton Institute, στο Vassar College και στο State University της Νέας Υόρκης/Albany. Υπήρξε πρόεδρος του Συνεδρίου Ιστορικής Έρευνας για την Ειρήνη ("Peace History Society") και λέκτορας του Ιδρύματος Fullbright στην Ιαπωνία. Έγραψε τα βιβλία: "Rebels Against War", 1969, "MacArthur", 1971, "Cold War America", 1974, "American Intervention in Greece", Columbia University Press, 1982, "The Struggle Against the Bomb : Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970", 1997, "Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present", 2003, κ.ά.

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