# Ruth Lawlor
**Source**: https://americanstudies.cornell.edu/ruth-lawlor
**Parent**: https://americanstudies.cornell.edu/faculty
## Assistant Professor
### Overview
I am a historian of U.S. foreign relations and teach classes on diplomatic, military and global history.
I was previously a visiting fellow at Yale and Boston Universities. Before coming to Cornell I taught American and European History at the University of Cambridge, where I also received my PhD.
My book on sexual violence and the U.S. military justice system in World War II is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. I have also edited, with Andrew Buchanan, a new collection on the global history of World War II, titled [*The Greater Second World War*](https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501780653/the-greater-second-world-war/#bookTabs=1)*,*which will be published with Cornell University Press next Spring. I am currently writing about the U.S. military in Alaska.
I am interested in hearing from prospective graduate students wishing to conduct research on topics in U.S. military history, geopolitics, and/ or the global Second World War.
### Publications
With Andrew Buchanan, “Hopes Foreclosed and a World Remade: The Long Endings of World War II”, in [*The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives*](https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501780653/the-greater-second-world-war/#bookTabs=1)eds. Andrew Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 2025).
With Andrew Buchanan, “[Latin America, the Good Neighbor and the Global Second World War](https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses)”, *Antíteses*(forthcoming)
“[The Stuttgart Incident: Sexual Violence and the Uses of History](https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhab084)”, *Diplomatic History* Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2022: 70–96
“[The Wartime Battlefield of Sex](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-american-history/article/abs/wartime-battlefield-of-sex/08C5AC8B7C0FACA448B0B18C54326AD3)”, *Modern American History,*Vol. 4 Issue 2 (July, 2021): 209-212
“[Contested Crimes: Race, Gender, and Nation in GI Histories of Sexual Crime, World War II](https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=smf&AN=142257984&site=ehost-live)”, *Journal of Military History*, Vol. 84 Issue 2 (April, 2020): 541-569
“[Working with Death](https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/working-with-death-the-experience-of-feeling-in-the-archive-december-2020/)”, *AHA Perspectives,*December 15, 2020
## Courses - Fall 2025
- [AMST 1576 : War in U.S. History: From the Frontier to the Wars on Terror](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA25/class/AMST/1576)
- [AMST 4264 : Gender, Sexuality, and the U.S. in the World](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA25/class/AMST/4264)
- [AMST 6264 : Gender, Sexuality, and the U.S. in the World](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA25/class/AMST/6264)