Kenton Clymer, a fellow at the Wilson Center, is Distinguished Research Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. His two-volume history of U.S.-Cambodia relations won the Ferrell Prize in 2005 from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His other books are about John Hay, Protestant missionaries in the Philippines, and American interest in India’s independence. He is currently writing a history of U.S. relations with Burma.

The seminar will meet at 4 p.m. in the Woodrow Wilson Center’s 6th Floor Moynihan Board Room in the Ronald Reagan Building, Federal Triangle Metro Stop. Reservations are requested because of limited seating. Please e-mail HAPP@wilsoncenter.org or call 202-691-4166.

Tony Smith is the Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His books include The French Stake in Algeria (1978); The Pattern of Imperialism (1981), and A Pact with the Devil: Washington’s Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise (Routledge, 2007).

Jeffrey Herf is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Maryland. His most recent book, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (2009), was awarded the German Studies Association’s 2011 Sybil Milton Prize for work on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. His previous books include The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (2006) and Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (1997). “A protean hatred” is the working title of his current research project.

Margaret MacMillan is the Warden of St. Antony’s College and a Professor of International History at Oxford University. Her books include Women of the Raj (1988, 2007); Paris 1919 (2002); and Nixon and Mao (2007). Her most recent book is The Uses and Abuses of History (2009). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

A webcast and podcast of this session are available at The Outbreak of World War I.

Stephen R. Weissman is the author of American Foreign Policy in the Congo 1960–1964 (1974) and A Culture of Deference: Congress’s Failure of Leadership in Foreign Policy (1995). He has been a political science professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, Fordham University, and the Université Libre du Congo. He served on the staff of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa from 1979 to 1991 (the last four years as staff director).

A webcast and podcast of this session are available at The Lumumba Assassination and CIA Accountability.

Dane Kennedy is the Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University. He has written several books on the British imperial experience. The most recent of these is The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World (2005). Kennedy currently has two books in press, The Challenge of the Continents: The British Exploration of Africa and Australia (Harvard University Press) and an edited volume on the history of exploration (Oxford University Press).

A webcast and a podcast of this session are available at Reassessing Exploration: The West in the World.

Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac are co-authors of Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Mastery in Central Asia (1999); and Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East (2008). Their most recent book, just published, is Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds (2012). Meyer served on the New York Times editorial board and previously was a foreign correspondent and editorial writer for the Washington Post. Brysac, formerly a prize-winning documentary producer for CBS News, is author of Resisting Hitler: Mildred Fish Harnack and the Red Orchestra (2002).

A webcast and podcast of their seminar are available at Peaceful Resolution of Ethnic Tensions.

Williamson has taught at West Point, Harvard, UNC-Chapel Hill, and the University of the South. He has written frequently about the origins of the First World War. His books include The Politics of Grand Strategy: Britain and France Prepare for War (1969) and Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War (1991). His recent articles have focused on the roles of General Henry Wilson and Count Leopold Berchtold in the July crisis. He has often argued that Russian actions in 1914 require reevaluation and that German actions should be judged from a comparative, rather than unilateralist, perspective.

A webcast and podcast of his seminar are available at July 1914: Revised and Revisited.

The seminar is sponsored jointly by the National History Center (an initiative of the American Historical Association) and the Wilson Center. Wm. Roger Louis and Christian Ostermann are the co-directors. The seminar meets weekly during the academic year, January to May and September to December. See www.nationalhistorycenter.org for the schedule, speakers, topics, and dates as well as webcasts. The seminar is grateful for support given by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Kuisel holds a joint appointment at the Center for German and European Studies and the History Department at Georgetown University where he teaches contemporary European history. His award-winning book, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization (1993), was a prequel to his new study: The French Way: How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power (2011).

A webcast and podcast of his seminar are available at Unmitigated Gaul.

Articles about the History Center at the Annual Meeting, the Getting It Right sessions, and another NHC-sponsored session, “The History Major in Liberal Education: Practical Application of the National History Center’s Report to the Teagle Foundation,” appeared in the December, March and February editions of the AHA’s monthly newsmagazine, Perspectives. Inside Higher Ed published an article on the “Interpreting the Arab Spring” session in its January 11, 2012 issue.