Professional Affiliation

Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Expert Bio

Elisabeth Leake is the Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. She studied at Yale and the University of Cambridge, and previously held posts at the University of Leeds and Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization (Cambridge University Press) and Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan (Oxford University Press).