David C. Engerman

David C. Engerman is a scholar of twentieth-century international history and the Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. In addition to writing two books on the place of Russia and the USSR in American intellectual and political life, he writes widely on the topic of international development assistance, starting with a co-edited volume, Staging Growth: Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003), and most recently a monograph, The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India. This research was also the topic of his presidential address for the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 2016. He is currently working on a one-volume history of international development, tentatively entitled International Development: A History in Eight Crises.