ABSTRACT
Marilyn B. Young is Co-director of the Center for the United States and the Cold War and a professor in the Department of History at New York University. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her books include Rhetoric of Empire: American China Policy, 1895–1901 (1969); Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the 20th Century (with William Rosenberg) (1980); and The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990 (1991), for which she received the Berkshire Women’s History Prize. She has edited and co-edited several anthologies, including Women in China: Essays on Social Change and Feminism (1973); Promissory Notes: Women and the Transition to Socialism (with Rayna Rapp and Sonia Kruks) (1989); Vietnam and America: A Documented History (with Marvin Gettleman, Jane Franklin, and Bruce Franklin) (1995); Human Rights and Revolutions (edited with Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Lynn Hunt) (2000); The Vietnam War: A History in Documents (with John J. Fitzgerald and A. Tom Grunfeld) (2003); The New American Empire (with Lloyd Gardner) (2004); and Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, or How Not to Learn from History (with Lloyd Gardner) (2008). She has served as an elected member of the American Historical Association (AHA) Council, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), and on the Council and the Board of the Organization of American Historians (OAH). She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 and an American Council of Learned Society Fellowship in 2000–2001.
