Thomas ("Tim") Borstelmann (born 4 April 1958) is an American historian. He is currently the Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of History at the

University of Nebraska A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...

Life

He was born on 4 April 1958. He graduated from the

Phillips Exeter Academy Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA) is an Independent school, independent, co-educational, college-preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire. Established in 1781, it is America's sixth-oldest boarding school and educates an es ...

. He completed his B.A. degree from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

. He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. from

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

. He taught at Cornell University from 1991 to 2003. He served as President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) in 2015.

Bibliography

* ''The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena '' * ''The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality '' * ''Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War '' * ''Created Equal: A History of the United States'' * ''Just Like Us: The American Struggle to Understand Foreigners''

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* 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Living people 1958 births Duke University alumni University of Nebraska faculty American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub