About

Brian S. Mueller is a historian, author, and teacher. He specializes in the history of American foreign policy, social movements, radicalism, and the politics of intellectuals. He is the author of Democracy’s Think Tank: The Institute for Policy Studies and Progressive Foreign Policy (University of Pennsylvania Press, June 2021). His current project, provisionally titled Faith & Solidarity: The Central America Peace Movement of the 1980s, will offer the first comprehensive history of the anti-interventionist movement that arose in response to U.S. intervention in Central America in the 1980s. He received his PhD in 2015, and is currently a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Please don’t hesitate to email him with questions or comments. He can be reached at: mueller2083@gmail.com