Dr Daniel Larsen

College Lecturer in History at Trinity College, Cambridge

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College Lecturer in History, Trinity College

Dr Daniel Larsen is a historian of American and British foreign policy and intelligence in the first half of the twentieth century, including an interest in its political, economic, and legal dimensions. In August 2023, Dr Larsen will take up a (permanent) Lectureship in Intelligence and War Studies at the University of Glasgow.

Daniel has focussed especially on Anglo-American relations and British war policy in the First World War era, with an emphasis on the role of British intelligence. His first book, Plotting for Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2021), re-examines American peace diplomacy and the British diplomatic and political response to it during 1914 to 1917, alongside an exploration of the Anglo-American economic relationship. I am especially interested in the role of codebreaking and economics in shaping foreign policy, cultures of secrecy in government, and the history of ideas concerning the conduct of foreign policy.

Previously, Daniel has been Assistant Professor in US Foreign Policy in the Department of POLIS, has held a fixed-term University Lectureship in International Relations at the University of Cambridge, and has held a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. His MPhil and PhD degrees are from Christ's College, Cambridge, and he completed his BA at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

He is a co-convenor of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar.