Julia Irwin
Guest Speaker
Professional Affiliation
University of South Florida
Expert Bio
Julia Irwin is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of History at the University of South Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in History, with a concentration in the History of Medicine and Science, from Yale University. Her research focuses on the place of humanitarian assistance in 20th century U.S. foreign relations and international history. Her first book, Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation鈥檚 Humanitarian Awakening (Oxford University Press, 2013) is a history of U.S. international relief efforts during the First World War era. She is now completing a second book, Catastrophic Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century. Professor Irwin is also the author of many articles and book chapters, including most recently 鈥淥ur Climatic Moment: Hazarding a History of the United States and the World鈥 (Diplomatic History, 2021), 鈥淭he 鈥楧evelopment鈥 of Humanitarian Relief: U.S. Disaster Assistance Operations in the Caribbean Basin, 1917-1931,鈥 (in The Development Century: A Global History, Cambridge University Press, 2018), and 鈥淒isastrous Grand Strategy: U.S. Humanitarian Assistance and Global Natural Catastrophe鈥 (Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Oxford University Press, 2021).
