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Lawrence Wittner is Professor of History Emeritus at the State University of New York/Albany, where he taught courses on U.S. diplomatic history, international history, and social justice movements from 1974 to 2010. He taught in previous years at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University), Vassar College, and at the University of Tokyo and other Japanese universities (under the Fulbright program).
During his academic career, Lawrence Wittner served as president of the Peace History Society and as convener of the Peace History Commission of the International Peace Research Association. He also recently completed a term as co-chair of the national board of Peace Action (the largest grassroots peace organization in the United States). In 2016, he was elected by the voters of New York’s 20th congressional district as a Bernie Sanders delegate to the Democratic national convention. He currently serves as a board member of the Peace Action Fund of New York State and of the Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund, as well as a member of the executive committee of the Albany County Central Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO).
A former co-editor of the journal Peace & Change, Lawrence Wittner is the author or editor of thirteen books, including Rebels Against War, American Intervention in Greece, Peace Action, Working for Peace and Justice, and the award-winning scholarly trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb, which is available in abbreviated form as Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press). His hundreds of published articles and book reviews have appeared in journals, magazines, newspapers, and online publications around the world. He has given lectures about peace, war, and nuclear disarmament in dozens of nations and has delivered addresses about such issues at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and at the United Nations.
Further information about him can be found on his website, https://www.lawrenceswittner.com/.