Evan Wilson researches the naval history of Britain and other countries from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. A recipient of the Sir Julian Corbett Prize in Modern Naval History, he is the author or editor of seven books, most recently Planning for War at Sea: 400 Years of Great Power Competition, which he edited with Paul Kennedy. Before coming to Newport, he was the Caird Senior Research Fellow at the National Maritime Museum (UK) and the Associate Director of International Security Studies at Yale University. He holds degrees from Yale, Cambridge and Oxford.