Hannah Gurman

Hannah Gurman teaches U.S. History and American Studies at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her work focuses on U.S. political and intellectual history in the 20th century. She has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy, empire, and national security. Her first book, The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2012) explores the politics of dissent in the State Department. She is also the editor of Hearts and Minds: A People’s History of Counterinsurgency (The New Press, 2013) and Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy (co-edited with Kaeten Mistry, Columbia University Press, 2020), which was part of a collaborative research project funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her writing has been published in popular outlets, including The Nation, Washington Post, Dissent, Jacobin, and The Baffler. She is currently working on a book, tentatively titled The Opportunists, about anti-liberal intellectuals and the reconstruction of reactionary politics in the Trump era.