Michael Neiberg is Professor of History and International Security at the Hamilton School at the University of Florida. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University, he comes to Hamilton after sixteen years teaching senior defense officials from the United States and partner nations at the United States Army War College.
Professor Neiberg’s published work focuses on the First and Second World Wars in global context. The Wall Street Journal named his Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I one of the five best books ever written about that war. He is also the author of The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 and Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe, which won the 2016 Truman Prize. His When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Relationship won the 2022 Society for Military History Book Prize.
In Fall 2026, PenguinRandomHouse UK and Pegasus Books USA will jointly publish Professor Neiberg’s newest book, Darkness in the City of Light: The 1937 Paris World’s Fair and the Coming of the Second World War. His current research interests include the past and present of the Trans-Atlantic Relationship and the impact of artificial intelligence on global security and defense.
In 2017 Professor Neiberg was awarded the Médaille d’Or du Rayonnement Culturel by La Renaissance Française, an organization founded by French President Raymond Poincaré in 1915 to keep French culture alive during the First World War. In 2026 the Army awarded him the United States Army Superior Civilian Service Award.
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