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Dr Diana Lemberg

Lecturer in the History of the United States (post 1850)

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2922

Email

dll4@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Research areas

I am a historian of the United States in the world, the history of information, and the history of ideas in the twentieth century. My first book, , was published by Columbia UP in 2019. It traces how the United States shaped media around the world after 1945 under the banner of the “free flow of information,” showing how the push for global media access acted as a vehicle for American power.

My current manuscript, focuses on U.S. investments in language education in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. I'm broadly interested in the connections between power and paradigms, and how American social scientists sought to disseminate findings and methods outside U.S. borders in fields ranging from modernization theory to applied linguistics, with varying results.

My work has been supported by fellowships and grants in the United States, Europe, and Asia. During the 2024-25 academic year I am on leave through a fellowship from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (for "The Weapon of Words"). From April-July 2024, I was an invited resident fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University, as part of the group project "Understanding the Transformations of World Politics: Ordering Principles and Infrastructures of Communication."

Before coming to ���ϳԹ��� I was associate professor of history at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. I received my PhD from Yale University in 2014.

PhD supervision

• Charlotte��Disley

Selected publications

• Open access
  Albert, M., Lemberg, D., Tworek, H. & Werron, T., 10 Mar 2026, Worldmaking projects and the infrastructural nexus: an interdisciplinary exploration. Albert, M., Tworek, H. & Werron, T. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript, p. 19-44 (Edition Politik; vol. 206).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access
  Tworek, H. & Lemberg, D., 10 Mar 2026, Worldmaking projects and the infrastructural nexus : an interdisciplinary exploration. Albert, M., Tworek, H. & Werron, T. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript, p. 121-142 (Edition Politik; vol. 206).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access
  Lemberg, D., 10 Mar 2026, Worldmaking projects and the infrastructural nexus: an interdisciplinary exploration. Albert, M., Tworek, H. & Werron, T. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript, p. 71-92 (Edition Politik; vol. 206).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Lemberg, D., 13 Mar 2024, In: Media History. 30, 2, p. 275-278 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Lemberg, D., 1 Jan 2021, In: Media History. 27, 1, p. 109-113 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Lemberg, D., 2 Mar 2021, Information: a historical companion. Blair, A., Duguid, P., Goeing, A.-S. & Grafton, A. (eds.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, p. 503-507 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Lemberg, D., 1 Jan 2021, In: Diplomatic History. 45, 1, p. 106-131 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Lemberg, D., 1 Sept 2019, New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 296 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Lemberg, D., 3 Aug 2019, British and French colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East: connected empires across the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Fichter, J. R. (ed.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 297-321 25 p. (Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Lemberg, D., 1 Aug 2018, In: Modern Intellectual History. 15, 2, p. 561-592 32 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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