The United States and the Global Human Rights Imagination

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Streaming video requires RealPlayer to view.The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Mark Bradley is professor of international history and the College at the University of Chicago. His research and teaching focus on 20th century U.S. international history, the global history of human rights politics and postcolonial Southeast Asian history. Bradley is the author of Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), which won the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, and Vietnam at War (Oxford University Press, 2009). He is co-editor of Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights (Rutgers University Press, 2001). He also serves as co-editor of the Cornell University Press book series The United States in the World. Bradley is currently completing a book that explores the place of the U.S. in the global human rights revolutions of the 20th century to be published by Cambridge University Press. He is also co-authoring a textbook on the international history of the Vietnam wars for Blackwell. Bradley has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities and Fulbright-Hays. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security StudiesEvent Web page, streaming video, event photo