Christopher McKnight Nichols is Professor of History and Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, at The Ohio State University. Nichols specializes in the history of the United States and its relationship to the rest of the world, and is also an expert on modern U.S. intellectual, political, and cultural history, from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1880-1920) through the present. An Andrew Carnegie Fellow and award-winning teacher and scholar, Nichols is author or editor of six books, including Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age, and his most recent (co-edited with David Milne), Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories.