Peter Slezkine

Peter Slezkine is the co-director of Middlebury University’s Monterey Trialogue, which seeks to convene constructive conversation between scholars from the United States, Russia, and China. He also concurrently serves as a post-doctoral fellow at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China.

Pete earned his Ph.D. in history at Columbia University while serving as a 2021–2022 predoctoral fellow at the Clements Center. His dissertation, Free World: The Creation of a U.S. Global Order, examines the origins and effects of American claims to “free world leadership.”  In 2019–2020, Slezkine was a predoctoral fellow in the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2018–2019, he was a predoctoral fellow at International Security Studies at Yale. His article, “From Helsinki to Human Rights Watch: How an American Cold War Monitoring Group Became an International Human Rights Institution,” appeared in Humanity in 2014.