Elizabeth Spalding

Member, Institute on Religion & Democracy Board of Directors

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Elizabeth Spalding is Visiting Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government in Washington, D.C. She is a Senior Fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy and serves as Chair of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s (VOC) Board of Trustees. Additionally, she is a core faculty member in VOC’s National Seminar for Middle and High School Educators. Spalding is the author of The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism, the co-author of A Brief History of the Cold War, and currently at work on a history of world communism. Her scholarly and popular articles and reviews have been published widely, including in Journal of Church and State, Orbis, Wilson Quarterly, Providence, The American Mind, Law & Liberty, H-Diplo, and Claremont Review of Books. She has taught on subjects ranging from U.S. foreign policy, national security, and international relations to presidential leadership, religion, and politics at Pepperdine University, Claremont McKenna College, George Mason University, and Catholic University of America. As the longtime Director of Claremont McKenna College’s Washington, D.C. program, she also mentored over a generation of undergraduates from the Claremont Colleges in student internships, postgraduate careers, and work-life balance. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in international politics and political theory from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in politics from Hillsdale College. She attends St Rita’s Catholic Church in Alexandria, Virginia.

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