Mark Philip Bradley is an international historian of empire and the postcolonial in Asia and the United States.  His current research explores the intellectual and cultural history of the global South and its central presence in the making of our times.  Bradley is the author of The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (2016), Vietnam at War (2009) and Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam (2000), which won the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies; the general editor of the four volume Cambridge History of America and the World (2021); and the coeditor of Making Forever War (2021) Familiar Made Strange (2015), Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars (2008), and Truth Claims (2001).  His work has been support by fellowships from the the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Fulbright-Hays.  Beginning in August 2021, he will serve as the editor of the American Historical Review.