Matthew James Connelly

Matthew Connelly is a professor of international and global history at Columbia, co-director of its social science institute, and principal investigator of History Lab. He received his BA from Columbia and a Ph.D. from Yale. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Oslo, the University of Sydney, the London School of Economics, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. His publications include A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era, and Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, an Economist and Financial Times book of the year. Matt has published research articles in Nature Human Behaviour, the Annals of Applied Statistics, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, The American Historical Review, and Past & Present. He has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic Monthly, and has hosted documentaries for BBC Radio.