Jeffrey A. Engel
Presidential historian and professor
Jeffrey A. Engel is a historian of American foreign policy who started the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. He co-wrote Impeachment: A History.
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About Jeffrey A. Engel
Jeffrey A. Engel founded the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University (SMU), where he joined the faculty in 2012. Before that he taught in the fields of history and public policy at Texas A&M University, and he has also taught at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania and Haverford College. He studied at Cornell University and St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and earned his Ph.D. in American history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a Senior Fellow of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Engel has written or edited twelve books on American foreign policy. They include Cold War at 30,000 Feet, which won the Paul Birdsall Prize, and When Life Strikes the Presidency. With Jon Meacham, Peter Baker and Tim Naftali, he wrote Impeachment: A History, published in 2018. He writes for both scholarly and general audiences, and has been working on a narrative history of the 1992 election.