Hannah Gurman is clinical associate professor at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is the author of The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2012) and editor of Hearts and Minds: A People's History of Counterinsurgency (The New Press, 2013). Her writing has appeared in American Quarterly, Diplomatic History, and the Journal of Contemporary History, as well as the Nation, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy in Focus, Salon, and Huffington Post.