Bert Patenaude, MA '79, PhD '87

Bert Patenaude, MA ’79, PhD ’87, teaches history and international relations at Stanford, where he has lectured frequently on the history of Central and Eastern Europe, especially the turbulent 20th century. His book The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (Stanford University Press, 2002) won the 2003 Marshall Shulman Book Prize and was made into a documentary film and broadcast in 2011 as part of the award-winning PBS history series American Experience. 

• Lecturer, history and international relations, Stanford University, since 1991

• Research fellow, Hoover Institution, since 1992

• Instructor, Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California,
  1992–2000

• Recipient, the Rear Admiral John J. Schieffelin Award for Teaching Excellence, Naval Postgraduate School, 1998 and 1999

• Author, Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary (HarperCollins, 2009)

• BA ’77, political science, Boston College

• MA ’79 and PhD ’87, history—both Stanford University