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Jennifer Siegel, Bruce R. Kuniholm Distinguished Professor

Jennifer Siegel

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.

Contact Info:
Office Location:  208 Sanford Building, Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  +1 919 613 9343
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • PUBPOL 302D.002, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT Synopsis
    Sanford 05, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
  • PUBPOL 302D.04D, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT Synopsis
    Sanford 102, F 12:00 PM-12:50 PM
  • PUBPOL 302D.05D, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT Synopsis
    Sanford 102, F 01:40 PM-02:30 PM
  • PUBPOL 302D.06D, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT Synopsis
    Rubenstein 151, F 03:20 PM-04:10 PM
  • PUBPOL 509.01, MODERN INTELLIGENCE HISTORY Synopsis
    Sanford 07, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
    (also cross-listed as HISTORY 509.01)
Teaching (Fall 2024):

  • PUBPOL 496S.03, HONORS SEMINAR Synopsis
    Sanford 07, F 03:20 PM-05:50 PM
Education:

Ph.D.Yale University1998
B.A.Yale University1990
Keywords:

International economic relations--History • International finance--History • International relations--History

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Siegel, J, “Planning for International Financial Order: The Call for Collective Responsibility at the Paris Peace Conference.”, in Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War, edited by Jackson, P; Sluga, G; Mulligan, W (March, 2023), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781108830508
  2. Siegel, J, “The Costs of War: Foreign Finance and Russia’s War Effort.”, in Russian International Relations in War and Revolution, 1914-22: Revolution and Civil War, edited by Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, D; McDonald, DM; Budnitskii, O; Hughes, M (2021), Slavica Publishers, ISBN 9780893574376
  3. Siegel, J, Endgame Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia (September, 2020), pp. 272 pages, Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN 9781350179981  [abs]
  4. Siegel, J, “Le Prix de la Guerre.”, in Une histoire de la guerre - Du XIXe siècle à nos jours, edited by Cabanes, B (August, 2018), Média Diffusion, ISBN 9782021287240
  5. Siegel, J, The Russian Revolution of 1905 in the Eyes of Russia's Financiers, Revolutionary Russia, vol. 29 no. 1 (January, 2016), pp. 24-42, Informa UK Limited [doi]


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