Elizabeth Borgwardt specializes in the history of human rights, international law and international institutions, and the international history of modern America. She draws much of her OAH lecture material from her multiple-award-winning book, A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights (2005), as well as from her ongoing projects on the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials; transnational NGOs; and Latin American human rights institutions. Associate professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis, she is the cowinner of the OAH Merle Curti Award for the best book in the history of ideas and the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for the best first book on the history of U.S. foreign relations, awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. She has received multiple teaching awards and was a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies during spring 2008. She will give the Bernath Prize Lecture at the OAH annual meeting in Washington, DC, in April 2010.

Lecture topics:

• Historical Perspectives on Human Rights and International Justice
• History of International Law and International Relations
• Re-examining the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Trials
• Human rights ideas and institutions related to corporate accountability; responsibility for propaganda and incitement
• Challenges in Comparative Constitutional Interpretation

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