Erez Manela

• History
• international relations

Erez Manela
Born	Haifa, Israel
Academic background
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA) Yale University (PhD)
Doctoral advisor	John Lewis Gaddis
Institutions	Harvard University

Erez Manela is an Israeli-American historian and professor at Harvard University, where he is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History. ^[1] He is an expert in American foreign policy in the twentieth century and Wilsonianism. ^[2] He is a director at the Weatherhead Center.

Biography

Manela was born and raised in Haifa. He attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied Middle Eastern studies and East Asian studies. After receiving his bachelor's degree, he received a Ph.D. in history from Yale University, where he studied under John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy, and Jonathan Spence. ^[3]

He joined the history faculty at Harvard University in 2003. ^[4] In 2007, Manela published The Wilsonian Moment, which reframed Wilsonianism in the context of independence movements across Europe and Asia. ^[4]

Bibliography

• The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2007)
• ed. The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (Harvard University Press, 2010)
• ed. Empires at War, 1911-1923 (Oxford University Press, 2014)
• ed. The Development Century: A Global History (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
• ed. The Anticolonial Transnational: Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

References

1. "Erez Manela | Department of History". history.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
2. "The Wilsonian Moment: Self Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism | Weatherhead Center for International Affairs". www.wcfia.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
3. "Interview with Prof. Erez Manela". Xing, Historian of US and Transnational Intellectual History. 2020-04-28. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
4. Keches ’10, Krysten A. (2009-11-12). "Chronicler of history's sweep". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2025-07-30.