12 Facts About Barbara Keys

Barbara J Keys is an American historian of US and international history and professor of history at Durham University.

Barbara Keys was born in Albany, New York, and grew up in San Francisco.

Barbara Keys served as the 2019 president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Barbara Keys has been a research fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and at the Leibniz-Institut fur Europaische Geschichte in Mainz.

Barbara Keys has been a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California Berkeley, the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

In 2006 Barbara Keys moved to Melbourne, Australia, to teach at the University of Melbourne.

Barbara Keys's teaching areas consist of 20th century international relations, US foreign relations, US history, the history of human rights, and the Cold War in global perspective.

In 2019, Barbara Keys was the fifth woman and the first scholar based outside the United States to serve as President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations since the organization's founding in 1969.

Barbara Keys's book argues that, certainly, international sport was manipulated for nationalist purposes, but it was a vehicle for values such as universalism and individualism that subverted and disrupted nationalist ideologies.

Barbara Keys's book argues that the commitment to the protection and promotion of international human rights in the United States was not a logical extension of American idealism but rather a reaction to national trauma.

In 2010 Barbara Keys received the Stuart Bernath Lecture Prize, awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

In 2015 Barbara Keys was awarded the University of Melbourne's 2015 Woodward Medal in Humanities and Social Sciences for her second book Reclaiming American Virtue.