Professor Peter Stansky

Peter Stansky studied at Yale and Cambridge and completed his Ph.D. at Harvard, where he taught before moving to the University of Stanford, California, becoming the holder of the endowed Frances and Charles Field Chair in History. He has written extensively on modern British culture, particularly on William Morris, George Orwell, the Bloomsbury Group, the London Blitz, as well as on Julian Bell and John Cornford.

Peter Stansky studied at Yale and Cambridge and completed his Ph.D. at Harvard, where he taught before moving to the University of Stanford, California, becoming the holder of the endowed Frances and Charles Field Chair in History. He has written extensively on modern British culture, particularly on William Morris, George Orwell, the Bloomsbury Group, the London Blitz, as well as on Julian Bell and John Cornford. See less