Francine Hirsch
Guest Speaker
Professional Affiliation
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Expert Bio
Francine Hirsch is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches courses on Soviet and Modern European history and on the history of human rights. She received her PhD in History from Princeton University in 1998. Her first book, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (2005) received several awards, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association. She has just launched a new project on the history of Russian-American entanglement.
Wilson Center Project
The Soviets at Nuremburg: International Law, Propaganda, and the Making of the Postwar Order
Project Summary
The project examines the role of Soviet legal experts in the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46 and in the subsequent development of an international discourse on human rights. It also investigates the role of Nuremberg in the Soviet imagination- focusing on the Soviet writers, artists and the like who attended the trials and brought them to the Soviet population back home.
Major Publications
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg, Oxford University Press, July, 2020.
Insight & Analysis by Francine Hirsch
- Past event
- History
Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World

- Video
- History
Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World

- Article
- Rule of Law
Kennan Institute Alumnus Awarded 2021 Jelavich Book Prize

- Article
- Strategic Competition
2021 George Louis Beer Prize Winner

- Past event
- History
On the Judgment of History

- Past event
- History
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II

- Book
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II

- Article
- Military History
Former Scholar Francine Hirsch Publishes New Book About USSR Involvement in the Nuremberg Trials
