Elizabeth Kopelman Borgwardt is an American historian, and lawyer
Education
She graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor and Master of Philisophy, from Harvard Law School, with a Juris Doctor, and from Stanford University with a Doctor of Philosophy She worked as a mediator and arbitrator, and was a senior fellow at the Center for Conflict and Negotiation at Stanford University.
Career
She teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis. Fellowships, Prizes, and This book by a young historian provides a rich and original account of the architects of the postwar global system and their ideas. Borgwardt argues that Franklin Roosevelt"s planners brought to their task notions of security, justice, and governance forged within the United States during the New Deal and, in doing so, launched the human rights revolution that has reshaped today"s world.
Achievements
Spring 2012 University of Chicago, Richard and Ann Pozen Professor of Human Rights (Visiting)
2010 Visiting Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
2010 James E. McCleod Faculty Appreciation Award, Washington University in Saint Louis
November 2010 Distinguished Graduate Award, Noble & Greenough School
2009 Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations
2009 Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Heidelberg, Center for American Studies
2008 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award
Spring 2008, Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, University of Heidelberg, Center for American Studies
2006 Murle Curti Book Award, the Organization of American Historians
2006 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize (co-winner), the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
2006 Best Book Award, Any Historical Topic, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
2006 Merle Curti Award
2006 Robert F. Kennedy Foundation Book Award Finalist
2006 Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, Honorable Mention, for A New Deal for the World
2006 Nominee, Pulitzer Prize in History, for A New Deal for the World
2004-2012 Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
2003-2004 Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law & Society, University of California at Berkeley
2004 Elizabeth Spilman Rosenfield Dissertation Prize, Stanford University Department of History
2001-2002 Samuel Golieb Fellow in Legal History, New York University School of Law
1999 Stuart L. Bernath Dissertation Research Grant
1998 Littleton-Griswold Dissertation Research Award for Legal History, American Historical Association
1998 Ford Foundation "Human Rights" Fellow.
Politics
The United States" vision of a proper world order after World World War II was a distinctive blend of realism and liberalism, pragmatism and idealism.
Views
By her lights, the New Deal was an effort by liberals led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt not only to save capitalism from itself and to provide Americans with relief from the devastating economic crisis of the Great Depression but also, and above all, to put into place a set of government regulatory institutions that would provide for long-term social and economic security.