Elisabeth Leake
Research/Areas of Interest
Global history; decolonization; Cold War; South Asia; borderlands; international relations and global governance; internationalisms; transnational anti-colonialism
Education
- PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- MPhil, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- MA, Yale University, USA
- BA, Yale University, USA
Biography
Elisabeth Mariko Leake is an award-winning historian and the Lee E. Dirks Professor in Diplomatic History at the Fletcher School, which she joined in 2022. Her research and teaching focus on decolonization, revolutions, twentieth-century South Asia, and global history. She is the author of The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936–65 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan (Oxford University Press, 2022). She is currently writing a global history of decolonization and is the chief editor of the Journal of Global History.