Christopher McKnight Nichols is Professor of History and Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, at The Ohio State University.Nichols specializes in the intellectual history of the United States and its relationship to the rest of the world, particularly in the areas of isolationism, internationalism, and globalization. He is also an expert on modern U.S. intellectual, political, and cultural history, from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1880-1920) through the present. Presidents, politics, elections.His books include: Co-edited, co-authored with David Milne, Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022). *Winner of the 2023 International Studies Association Fletcher Award for best editor book in historical international relations. Co-edited, co-authored with Elizabeth Borgwardt and Andrew Preston, Rethinking American Grand Strategy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).His most well-known book is Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011, 2015).Nichols co-edited and co-authored, with Charles Mathewes, Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America’s Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). Nichols was Senior Editor, with David Milne, and Editor-in-Chief Timothy Lynch, of the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). Nichols co-edited, with Nancy Unger, the Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Malden, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2017, new paperback 2022).Nichols was honored as a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, a prestigious academic fellowship for social sciences and humanities scholars. In May 2015 he received the OSU and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society “emerging scholar” of the year for “outstanding research or creative activity.” Nichols received the 2015 Roger D. Bridges Distinguished Service Award by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. In 2017 Nichols became an Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer and in 2018 he gave a TEDxPortland TED Talk entitled "The Untold Story of American Isolationism" (aka "Why History Matters Today"). He hosts "Historians and the News." Nichols is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a proud Member of the Board of Trustees of the Oregon Historical Society.Website: https://christophermcknightnichols.wordpress.com