Brandon Schechter
Former Title VIII Research Scholar
Professional affiliation
Visiting Scholar, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University; Teaching Resource Developer, "Teaching Things: Material Culture in the History Classroom," American Historical Association
Wilson Center Projects
The Search for Salvation in the Second World War
Full Biography
Brandon Schechter is currently a visiting scholar at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University and a Teaching Resource Developer in the NEH-funded "Teaching Things: Material Culture in the History Classroom" at the American Historical Association. His first book, (Cornell, 2019), won the American Historical Association’s Paul Birdsall Prize for best book in European military or strategic history in 2020. He has taught at UC Berkeley, NYU, Brown, Columbia, and NYU Shanghai.
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