Faculty
Eileen Scully
History
A scholar of American and international history, Scully is the author of Bargaining with the State from Afar: American Citizenship in Treaty Port China. She has published articles and reviews in The Journal of American History, International History Review, Pacific Historical Review, The Journal of Modern History, and The American Historical Review. An SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in International Peace and Security took her to Harvard Law School and to the Henry Dunant Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, and for six years she taught at Princeton University. Her most recent work combines international law and American foreign policy, with an essay The U.S. and International Affairs, 1789-1919 , commissioned for The Cambridge History of Law in America. Scully is the recipient of the 2005 Eugene Ascher Distinguished Teaching Prize, awarded annually by the American Historical Association. MA in Russian Area Studies and PhD in American History, Georgetown University; language studies, the Pushkin Institute in Moscow and Hong Kong Chinese University. She has taught at Bennington since 2000.
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