Paul Kramer

Paul A. Kramer is an Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, with research and teaching interests centering on the United States’ transnational, imperial and global histories since the mid-19th century. He is the author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), winner of SHAFR’s 2007 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize and the OAH’s 2007 James A. Rawley Prize, and numerous articles, including “Power and Connection: Imperial Histories of the United States in the World,” American Historical Review, Vol. 116, No. 5 (December 2011), pp. 1348-1391. He is co-editor of “The United States in the World,” a series published by Cornell University Press. He is currently at work on a book-length project on the geopolitics of U. S. immigration policy across the 20th century. Paul A. Kramer