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Jennifer Siegel, Bruce R. Kuniholm Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy  

Office Location: 208 Sanford Building, Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 613 9343
Duke Box: 90245
Email Address: j.siegel@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    Ph.D., Yale University, 1998
    B.A., Yale University, 1990

    Teaching (Spring 2024):

    • Pubpol 302d.002, Pol choice/val conflict Synopsis
      Sanford 05, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
    • Pubpol 509.01, Modern intelligence history Synopsis
      Sanford 07, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

    Recent Publications   (More Publications)

    1. Siegel, J. "“Planning for International Financial Order: The Call for Collective Responsibility at the Paris Peace Conference.”." Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War. Ed. Jackson, P; Sluga, G; Mulligan, W Cambridge University Press, March, 2023
    2. Siegel, J. "“The Costs of War: Foreign Finance and Russia’s War Effort.”." Russian International Relations in War and Revolution, 1914-22: Revolution and Civil War. Ed. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, D; McDonald, DM; Budnitskii, O; Hughes, M Slavica Publishers, 2021
    3. Siegel, J. Endgame Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia. Bloomsbury Academic, September, 2020. 272 pages pp.  [abs]
    4. Siegel, J. "“Le Prix de la Guerre.”." Une histoire de la guerre - Du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Ed. Cabanes, B Média Diffusion, August, 2018
    5. Siegel, J. "The Russian Revolution of 1905 in the Eyes of Russia's Financiers." Revolutionary Russia 29.1 (January, 2016): 24-42. [doi]

    Highlight:
    Jennifer Siegel specializes in modern European diplomatic and military history, with a focus on the British and Russian Empires. She is the author of For Peace and Money: French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars (Oxford University Press: 2014)  and Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia (I.B. Tauris, 2002), which won the 2003 AAASS Barbara Jelavich Prize. She has published articles on intelligence history, and co-edited Intelligence and Statecraft : The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society (Praeger, 2005). Professor Siegel teaches classes on European diplomatic and military history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, international relations, comparative empires, modern intelligence history, the origins of wars, and the history of oil.  Her current research projects include: 1) an exploration of the diplomacy of the First World War; 2) a project on the Rothschilds and the early Russian oil industry; and 3) a book on civilian intelligence in occupied Belgium during the First World War.

    Jennifer Siegel