Tom Gleason

Brown University

Tom Gleason was professor of history emeritus at Brown University and a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute. His areas of interest include national identity in the Soviet Union/Russia and the United States from 1830-1930, and the history of the Cold War. A Brown professor for over 30 years, he was the former chair of the history department and a former director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. He co-edited, with Martha Nussbaum, Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell and Our Future (Princeton University Press, 2005), and Nikita Khrushchev, with Sergei Khrushchev and William Taubman (Yale University Press, 2000).

Gleason’s videos were used previously in the Choices Program curriculum unit The Russian Revolution

We mourn the death of Tom Gleason in December 2015.
He was our colleague and friend.