Background
The son of businessman Louis and Mollie Leffler, he married historian Phyllis Koran on September 1, 1968. They had one daughter, Sarah Annual
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Leffler received a Bachelor of Surgery from Cornell University in 1966, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Ohio State University in 1972.
Career
Leffler taught at Vanderbilt University as assistant professor in 1972-1977, and associate professor of history in 1977-2002. He was chairman of the department of history and dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia in 1997-2001. In 1994 he was president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
He was Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford in 2002-2003.
Achievements
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2008 George Louis Beer Prize for Foreign the Soul of Mankind: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War 2004-2005 Randolph Jennings Fellow, United States Institute of Peace 2004-2005 Henry Kissinger Fellow, Library of Congress 2001-2002 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow 1993 Bancroft Prize for A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War 1993 Ferrell Prize 1993 Hoover Prizes 1993, 1997 Norwegian Nobel Peace Institute Fellowship 1973, 1984-1985 American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowships, Grants-in-Aid 1984-1985 Lehrman Institute Fellowship.
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Nationality
United States
Awards
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George Louis Beer Prize; Bancroft Prize 2008 George Louis Beer Prize for For the Soul of Mankind: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War 2004-2005 Randolph Jennings Fellow, United States Institute of Peace 2004-2005 Henry Kissinger Fellow, Library of Congress 2001-2002 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow 1993 Bancroft Prize for A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War 1993 Ferrell Prize 1993 Hoover Prizes 1993, 1997 Norwegian Nobel Peace Institute Fellowship 1973, 1984-85 American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowships, Grants-in-Aid 1984-85 Lehrman Institute Fellowship The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.George Louis Beer Prize; Bancroft Prize 2008 George Louis Beer Prize for For the Soul of Mankind: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War 2004-2005 Randolph Jennings Fellow, United States Institute of Peace 2004-2005 Henry Kissinger Fellow, Library of Congress 2001-2002 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow 1993 Bancroft Prize for A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War 1993 Ferrell Prize 1993 Hoover Prizes 1993, 1997 Norwegian Nobel Peace Institute Fellowship 1973, 1984-85 American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowships, Grants-in-Aid 1984-85 Lehrman Institute Fellowship The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.