Laura Beers

Laura Beers is professor of history at American University in Washington, D.C. An historian of modern Britain, she is the author of Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist (Harvard University Press, 2016), which was awarded the 2017 Stansky Prize for best book published in the field of modern British history, and Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour Party (Harvard University Press, 2010). She is the co-editor of Brave New World: Imperial and Democratic Nation-Building in Britain between the Wars (Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2012). In addition to her academic work, Professor Beers has written on British and comparative politics for CNN, the Washington Post’s “Made by History” column, the New Statesmen, and the London Review of Books.