Anand Toprani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Strategy and Policy Department
Biography
Anand Toprani is an associate professor of strategy and policy specializing in diplomatic and military history, energy geopolitics and political economy. He is a graduate of Cornell, Oxford and Georgetown universities and has held fellowships at Yale and Harvard universities, as well as from the Smith-Richardson, George C. Marshall and The Stanton foundations. He is the author of “Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany,” 1914-1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) and has published articles in numerous journals, including Diplomatic History, The Journal of Military History and Political Science Quarterly.
Contact Information
Areas of Expertise
- Cold War
- Diplomacy
- Economics
- Foreign Policy
- Geopolitics
- Maritime Strategy
- Military Theory
- National Security
- WWI
- WWII
Education
Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2012, History
M.Phil., University of Oxford (University College), 2006, Modern European History
B.A., Cornell University, 2003, History, with Distinction in all Subjects
Awards and Decorations
Applied History Course Development Program Grant
Stanton Foundation (2018-2019)
Ernest May Post-doctoral Fellowship in History and Policy, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University (2012-2013)
Post-doctoral Fellowship, Institute for Historical Studies
University of Texas at Austin (2012-2013 – declined)
Smith Richardson Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Security Studies, International Security Studies
Yale University (2011-2012)
World Politics & Statecraft Fellowship
Smith Richardson Foundation (2010)
George C. Marshall/Baruch Fellowship
George C. Marshall Foundation (2010)
Young Scholars Award
Cosmos Club Foundation (2010)
Research Grant
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association (2010)
History Department Fellowship/Teaching Assistantship
Georgetown University (2006-2011)
External Memberships and Associations
Council on Foreign Relations
Term Member (2018-2023)
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Applied History Working Group, Belfer Center, Kennedy School
Harvard
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