Andrew Preston (historian)

Andrew Malcolm Preston (born 1973) is a Canadian historian, who won the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for his book Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy.^[1] He is a fellow at Clare College, Cambridge.

Andrew Preston
Born	Andrew Malcolm Preston 1973 (age 51–52) Brockville, Ontario, Canada
Awards	Charles Taylor Prize (2013)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Toronto (BA) London School of Economics (MA) Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (PhD)
Thesis	The Little State Department (2001)
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	American history
Institutions	University of Victoria Yale University Clare College, Cambridge
Main interests	History of American foreign relations
Notable works	Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith (2012)

Education

Preston is a Professor of American history at the University of Cambridge. Originally from Ontario, Canada, Preston was educated at the University of Toronto, the London School of Economics (LSE), and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. He previously taught at the University of Victoria and at Yale University where he was a postdoctoral educator.^[2]

Research

Preston is the author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy for which he won the Charles Taylor Prize in 2013.^[1] His prior publications include The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam (2006) and Nixon in the World: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1969–1977 (2008).