Stella Ghervas is Professor of Russian and European History atNewcastle University (UK) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is also a Research Associate in the Department of History at Harvard University and a visiting professor at the Harvard Summer School since 2015. She has taught at universities on four continents, from Chicago to Sydney and most recently at the Higher School of Economics University in St Petersburg. Her areas of research focus on the intellectual and global history of Europe, with a specialization on the history of peace and peacekeeping, as well as the intellectual and maritime history of Russia in the modern era.
She is the author of several books, including Alexandre Stourdza (1791-1854) : un intellectuel orthodoxe face à I'Occident (1999) ; Réinventer la tradition : Alexandre Stourdza et I'Europe de la Sainte-Alliance (2008). This work has won several awards, including the Prix Guizot from the Académie Française in 2009. Her latest book, Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union, is published by Harvard University (2021). Stella Ghervas has also co-edited several books in French and English, including Penser l'Europe: quarante ans d'études européennes à Genève (2003); Lieux d'Europe: Mythes et limites (2008); and A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment (2020). She is currently working on a new book on the history of the Black Sea, entitled Calming the Waters? A New History of the Black Sea, 1774-1920s, as well as an anthology of fundamental texts on Peace, from antiquity
to the present day.
