Elizabeth Spalding

Biography

Senior Fellow Elizabeth Edwards Spalding is based in Washington, D.C., where she is also Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), Founding Director of the Victims of Communism Museum, and Visiting Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government. She also serves on the board of the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) and on the advisory board of University of Austin’s Center for Education and Public Service.

Spalding is the author of The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism and the co-author of A Brief History of the Cold War. Her scholarly and popular writings have been published widely, including in Journal of Church and State, Orbis, Providence, National Review, Law & Liberty, The Wilson Quarterly, and H-Diplo. She speaks on subjects ranging from presidential leadership, religion and politics, and comparative ideologies to U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, and national security, and she has taught at Claremont McKenna College, George Mason University, and the Catholic University of America. Spalding’s expertise is regularly sought for documentaries, podcasts, and other media outlets, and her awards include the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary, the Elizebeth Smith Friedman Award for Freedom, and the Harry S. Truman Library Institute Dissertation Year Fellowship. 

Education

• PhD, MA, The University of Virginia
• BA, Hillsdale College