International History Scholar Gets First Mack Brown Chair and LBJ School and History Joint Appointment

AUSTIN, Texas — Jeremi Suri, an acclaimed scholar of international history, has been named the first holder of the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and has received a joint appointment at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin.

Suri, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, joins the university in fall 2011.

"Jeremi Suri is one of the most highly regarded scholars of international history, with a brilliant record of innovation in teaching and research," said Robert Hutchings, dean of the LBJ School. "His appointment will secure our already strong reputation as the leading program in international history, drawing together scholars and practitioners in international security, American foreign policy, international law and diplomatic history. Other institutions have excellent programs in one or two of these fields, but ours breaks new ground owing to the combined strength of our faculties in history, law and public policy."

“Besides his intellectual achievements, Suri brings boundless energy, extraordinary eloquence and high visibility,” said  Randy L. Diehl, dean of the College of Liberal Arts. “The entire university community will benefit immeasurably from having such a talented individual among us.”...