Anatol Klass, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor Strategy and Policy Department
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Biography

Anatol Klass is an assistant professor in the Strategy & Policy Department. He studies modern Chinese history and is writing a book about the bureaucratic development of the institutions through which the Chinese state engages with the world and the professional identities of experts working within those institutions. He has a Ph.D. in history from Berkeley and held fellowships at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center, and the Columbia-Harvard China & the World Program. His research has been published in the International History Review and Cold War History, and his writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Foreign Policy.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Cold War
  • Diplomacy

Professional Highlights

2025

Assistant Professor at the United States Naval War College

2024

Columbia-Harvard China & the World Program Postdoctoral Fellow

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2024, History

M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2021, History

M.A., Tsinghua University, 2018, Global Affairs

A.B., Harvard University, 2017, History and East Asian Studies

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